arXiv:2608. 19583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent studies suggest that video generation models can exhibit certain forms of zero-shot visual reasoning through generated frames.
By Xuan He, Cong Wei, Yuhao Cheng, Linrui Ma, Yuxuan Zhang, Zuojun Li, Yuhao Wen, Zeyi Liu, Yuren Hao, Songcheng Cai, Keming Wu, Penghui Du, Kai Zou, Rui Yang, Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Ping Nie, Kelsey R Allen, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, ChengXiang Zhai
arXiv:2608.19583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent studies suggest that video generation models can exhibit certain forms of zero-shot visual reasoning through generated frames. Yet rel...
By Xuan He, Cong Wei, Yuhao Cheng, Linrui Ma, Yuxuan Zhang, Zuojun Li, Yuhao Wen, Jize Jiang, Zeyi Liu, Yuren Hao, Songcheng Cai, Keming Wu, Penghui Du, Kai Zou, Rui Yang, Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Ping Nie, Kelsey R Allen, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, ChengXiang Zhai
The paper introduces VWG-Bench, a benchmark covering nine reasoning dimensions and 38 tasks to evaluate video generative models on symbolic reasoning, physical laws, and goal pursuit. It also presents Vid-PRE, a prompt-rewriting framework that offloads reasoning to a VLM, improving logical performance without changing the generator architecture. Experiments show that current models excel at visual quality but struggle with logic-heavy tasks, while Vid-PRE significantly boosts reasoning across multiple generators.
By Meng Luo, Yicheng Liu, Jiahao Wang, Yuanxing Zhang, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Hao Fei
VBVR-Pro is a closed‑loop testbed that enables native visual reasoning through generation, offering 300 procedurally generated tasks that scale training and allow strong transfer to external benchmarks. It supplies verifiable reward scorers based on deterministic, task‑specific rules, outperforming VLM‑as‑a‑judge approaches and providing reliable signals for reinforcement learning. The suite also facilitates controlled modality studies, revealing that video generation excels at persistent spatiotemporal tracking while interleaved generation offers a compute‑efficient alternative, and highlights the importance of vision‑native trajectories for reasoning.
By Junxiang Xu, Ruisi Wang, Fanyi Pu, Maijunxian Wang, Ran Ji, Tongxi Zhou, Chenyang Gu, Jing Zuo, Hongcan Xiao, Yimeng Geng, Wanqi Yin, Wei Chen, Oscar Qian, Zhengan Yan, Ziqi Huang, Haiwen Diao, Liang Pan, Bo Li, Xiangyu Fan, Dezhi Luo, Fengyuan Yu, Zehong Zhao, Qingying Gao, Tinghui Zhu, Yilan Zhang, Jingqi Tong, Pinyuan Feng, Zhengze Jiang, Letian Wang, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Jieneng Chen, Sonia Joseph, Constantin Venhoff, Saman Motamed, Mengyue Yang, Chandra Sripada, Alan Yuille, Philip Torr, Lvmin Zhang, Vikash Kumar, Daniel Khashabi, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Rapha\"el Milli\`ere, Vincent C. M\"uller, Anyi Rao, Quan Wang, Ziwei Liu, Dahua Lin, Lei Yang, Hokin Deng, Zhongang Cai
arXiv:2605. 31603v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Connector-based video unified models have demonstrated strong capability in instruction-grounded video synthesis, but integrating a large high-fidelity generator into the unified training loop is computationally prohibitive, limiting achievable visual quality.
By Jiazheng Xing, Hangjie Yuan, Lingling Cai, Xinyu Liu, Yujie Wei, Fei Du, Tao Feng, Hai Ci, Jiasheng Tang, Weihua Chen, Fan Wang, Yong Liu
arXiv:2609.40129v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reasoning through video generation offers a promising path toward visual intelligence by modeling latent visual states and their dynamics. However, cur...
By Zehua Ma, Kun Xiang, Yunshuang Nie, Quanlin Chen, Haoyuan Li, Xiuwei Chen, Jiang Ji, Haijun Wu, Zhenyu Xie, Michael Kampffmeyer, Hanhui Li, Xiaodan Liang