arXiv:2607. 17999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial understanding is crucial for foundation models (FMs), and maps have long helped humans organize and reason about geographic information.
By Zhiwei Wei, Yonghe Sun, Zhenjia Liu, Wenjia Xu, Chao He, Weihua Dong, Chunbo Liu, Hua Liao
Spatial understanding is crucial for foundation models (FMs), and maps have long helped humans organize and reason about geographic information. This study examines whether choropleth maps remain useful for machine spatial understanding when models can directly process structured geodata.
arXiv:2510. 04514v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent multimodal LLMs have shown promise in chart-based visual question answering, but their performance declines sharply on unannotated charts-those requiring precise visual interpretation rather than relying on textual shortcuts.
By Rachneet Kaur, Nishan Srishankar, Zhen Zeng, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
arXiv:2602. 18600v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Systematically evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is essential for advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
By Ziqiao Shang, Ling-Yue Ge, Zian Xu, Zi-Jian Cheng, Shi-Yu Tian, Zhenyu Huang, Wenbo Fu, Weiming Wu, Yang Chen, Xiangwen Zhang, Yulan Hu, Bin Liu, Lan-Zhe Guo
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:2605. 09883v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As current Multimodal Large Language Models rapidly saturate canonical visual reasoning benchmarks, a key question emerges: do these strong scores genuinely reflect robust visual understanding?
By Xia Hu, Zhenrui Yue, Brian Potetz, Howard Zhou, Leonidas Guibas, Chun-Ta Lu, Zhicheng Wang