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Multimodal Reasoning for Science: Technical Report and 1st Place Solution to the ICML 2025 SeePhys Challenge

Computation and Language 2025-09-09 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Multimodal reasoning remains a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. Despite substantial advances in text-based reasoning, even state-of-the-art models such as GPT-o3 struggle to maintain strong performance in multimodal scenarios. To address this gap, we introduce a caption-assisted reasoning framework that effectively bridges visual and textual modalities. Our approach achieved 1st place in the ICML 2025 AI for Math Workshop \& Challenge 2: SeePhys, highlighting its effectiveness and robustness. Furthermore, we validate its generalization on the MathVerse benchmark for geometric reasoning, demonstrating the versatility of our method. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/OpenDCAI/SciReasoner.

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@article{arxiv.2509.06079,
  title  = {Multimodal Reasoning for Science: Technical Report and 1st Place Solution to the ICML 2025 SeePhys Challenge},
  author = {Hao Liang and Ruitao Wu and Bohan Zeng and Junbo Niu and Wentao Zhang and Bin Dong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06079},
  year   = {2025}
}