arXiv:2511. 17731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has proven remarkably effective for eliciting complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs).
By Lingxiao Li, Yifan Wang, Xinyan Gao, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Chenyu You
arXiv:2507. 19634v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have laid the foundation for multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), which unify text, speech, and vision within a single framework.
By Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues
BEAR-Bench is a bilingual benchmark for multimodal large language models, featuring 1,000 human‑annotated questions derived from text‑rich business and scientific documents in English and Russian. It evaluates 16 MLLMs, including Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3.5‑397B, revealing significant performance gaps even for the strongest systems. The benchmark also serves to compare hallucination‑detection methods by analyzing model failures on these complex documents.
By Liubov Chubarova, Alexandra Kuleshova, Daniil Volkov, Kirill Sultanov, Alexey Zaytsev
SciMIF is a new benchmark that evaluates how well multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can follow complex scientific instructions. It is built on an analysis of 22 tasks across five scientific fields and introduces a taxonomy of 10 constraint groups that capture both general and discipline‑specific requirements. Experiments show large performance gaps between fields—chemistry is hardest—and that larger models do not necessarily improve constraint adherence, especially for fine‑grained, knowledge‑heavy instructions.
By Ye Shen, Yuting Zheng, Dun Pei, Zijian Chen, Wenlong Zhang, Qi Jia, Guangtao Zhai
DocHop is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on integrated chart‑context reasoning within document‑style images. The benchmark presents narrative text that imposes multi‑step compositional constraints, while charts supply the data needed to answer questions grounded in semantic reference labels. It contains 2,074 examples across six task categories, generated via a stochastic logic‑first pipeline that controls reasoning depth and visual density, and shows a large performance gap between humans (over 90% accuracy) and the best models (62.83%).
By Zhuoran Yu, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jaden Park, Xinyi Gu, Zexue He, Soochahn Lee, Rogerio Feris, Yong Jae Lee
Lingshu is a medical‑specialized multimodal large language model that addresses key limitations of existing medical MLLMs, such as narrow knowledge coverage, hallucinations, and weak reasoning. The authors curate a comprehensive dataset combining medical imaging, texts, and general‑domain data, then train Lingshu in multiple stages to embed medical expertise and improve task performance. They also introduce MedEvalKit, a unified evaluation framework, and demonstrate that Lingshu outperforms current open‑source multimodal models on multimodal QA, text‑based QA, and medical report generation.
By Weiwen Xu, Hou Pong Chan, Long Li, Mahani Aljunied, Ruifeng Yuan, Jianyu Wang, Chenghao Xiao, Guizhen Chen, Chaoqun Liu, Zhaodonghui Li, Yu Sun, Junao Shen, Chaojun Wang, Jie Tan, Deli Zhao, Tingyang Xu, Hao Zhang, Yu Rong