arXiv:2608. 06938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The visual reasoning ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is crucial for downstream applications, particularly counter-commonsense reasoning, which requires models to reason beyond common assumptions.
By Chen Ling, Hanqian Li, Dongnan Liu, Keyu Qian, Jungang Li, Xinglong liu, Shiyi Wang, Xin Dong, Pengcheng Zhu, Wei Zhou, Linjian Mo, Nai Ding
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:2606. 19120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a model on its own rollouts and uses a frozen copy to provide dense token-level targets conditioned on a reference target.
By Sihan Wang, Xiyao Liu, Lianqing Liu, Zhi Han
CS-CLIP is a vision‑language model that improves compositional reasoning by using scene graphs to identify compositional elements and create structured negative examples through selective masking. The approach retains only the most contradictory negatives, encouraging the model to depend on compositional structure instead of surface cues. CS-CLIP achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on compositional reasoning benchmarks while maintaining strong cross‑modal retrieval and downstream visual reasoning capabilities with fewer training samples.
By SeongJun Jeong, Minjoon Jung, Woo Suk Choi, Youwon Jang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
arXiv:2608. 15006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although visual reasoning is crucial for solving complex geometry tasks, existing vision-language models rely heavily on text-only reasoning.
By Penghao Yin, Haomin Wang, Qihong Tang, Xiaoye Qu, Hongjie Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang
UReason is a benchmark that evaluates how well unified multimodal models (UMMs) align textual reasoning with image generation. It contains 2,000 human‑curated instances across five reasoning‑intensive tasks—Code, Arithmetic, Spatial, Attribute, and Text—and compares direct generation, reasoning‑guided generation, and decontextualized generation. The study finds that while reasoning‑guided generation improves over direct generation, decontextualized generation consistently outperforms it, indicating that the visual semantics in textual reasoning are not reliably reflected in the generated images.
By Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Bo Shui, Yaokang Wu, Muzi Tao, Huijuan Wang, Ivan Yee Lee, Yong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick