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When Prompts Become Pixels: Prompt-Region Grounding for Multimodal Reasoning

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arXiv:2608. 04726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly reason over screenshots and documents where the task itself may be written in pixels.

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