arXiv Machine Learning June 3, 2026 By Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi, Changshuo Wang, Shuai Wang, Jia-Hong Huang, George Floros, Prayag Tiwari, Anuj Pathania

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arXiv:2606. 02842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal spatial reasoning often relies on long chains of intermediate textual and visual thoughts, where accumulating visual tokens and dense cross-modal attention incur substantial computation and memory overhead.

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