Vision-language models excel at 2D image understanding but remain limited in 3D spatial reasoning. Progress is hindered by limitations in current benchmarks. First, 3D datasets often rely on point clo...
arXiv:2609.16233v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models excel at 2D image understanding but remain limited in 3D spatial reasoning. Progress is hindered by limitations in current ben...
By Anubhav Khanal, Prabigya Acharya, Roshni Poudel, Sujan Kapali, Bigyan Bhatta, Pramish Paudel, Francois Rameau, Danda Pani Paudel
Previous work has evaluated physics reasoning in foundation models using synthetic or semi-synthetic scenes and visual question-answering tasks. However, these benchmarks emphasize high-level events and lack the visual fidelity required to assess true low-level Newtonian understanding.
The paper introduces SciGram, a large-scale dataset of 194K scientific diagrams paired with 1.4M visual instructions generated through a terminology‑grounded pipeline that extracts domain concepts, synthesizes facts, and retrieves relevant diagrams. Models fine‑tuned on SciGram show significant gains on diagram‑centric benchmarks such as TQA, ScienceQA, and AI2D, and when combined with existing models like LLaVA OneVision, set new state‑of‑the‑art performance. The authors release both the dataset and trained models to support further research in scientific diagram understanding.
By Raul Ortega, Jos\'e Manuel G\'omez-P\'erez
While Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown remarkable success in generating photorealistic visual content, they still struggle with the rigorous semantic alignment and logical reasoning required for scientific imagery. Inspired by Peirce's Semiotic Triad, we introduce Scientific Image Reasoning (SciIR), a comprehensive resource for training and evaluation of scientific image generation.
arXiv:2606. 29786v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D scene graphs (3DSGs) provide a compact and structured abstraction of 3D environments.
By Yirum Kim, Ue-Hwan Kim