arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

MechReason: Benchmarking Multi-Image Multi-Hop Reasoning in Mechanical Engineering

MechReason is a new benchmark for multi-image, multi-hop reasoning in mechanical engineering, featuring 12,000 question-answer pairs with explicit reasoning chains and 21,000 visual items across nine evidence types. It covers eight task types—explanation, prediction, design, and diagnosis—within four reasoning dimensions, and is constructed through a four-stage pipeline that extracts engineering claims, generates verification-masked questions, and validates multimodal quality. Even state‑of‑the‑art models score only 62.89% on this dataset, highlighting its difficulty.

By Tengyue Wang, Kang An, Chenxu Du, Zhongyu Yang, Yuanchi Zhu, Xinqi Yang, Hebao Zhu, Ziliang Wang, FaQiang Qian, Yunli Yang, Qibing Ren