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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently hallucinate due to their reliance on fragile, linear reasoning and weak visual grounding. We propose Visual Attention Reasoning (VAR), a reinforcement learning framework that reformulates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Cai , Jian Zhao , Yuchen Yuan , Tianle Zhang , Ming Zhu , Haichuan Tang , Xuelong Li

Methods for Visual Question Anwering (VQA) are notorious for leveraging dataset biases rather than performing reasoning, hindering generalization. It has been recently shown that better reasoning patterns emerge in attention layers of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Corentin Kervadec , Christian Wolf , Grigory Antipov , Moez Baccouche , Madiha Nadri

Medical vision--language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for medical visual question answering (VQA), yet their reasoning remains largely text-centric: images are encoded once as static context, and subsequent inference is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Suyang Xi , Songtao Hu , Yuxiang Lai , Wangyun Dan , Yaqi Liu , Shansong Wang , Xiaofeng Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at many multimodal tasks, yet they frequently struggle with tasks requiring precise understanding and handling of fine-grained visual elements. This is mainly due to information loss during image encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuchen Li , Xuzhao Li , Jiahui Gao , Renjie Pi , Shiyu Hu , Wentao Zhang

The rapid advancement of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) has demonstrated excellent abilities in various visual tasks. Building upon these developments, the thinking with images paradigm has emerged, enabling models to dynamically edit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yujin Zhou , Pengcheng Wen , Jiale Chen , Boqin Yin , Han Zhu , Jiaming Ji , Juntao Dai , Chi-Min Chan , Sirui Han

Large Vision-Language Models excel at multimodal understanding but struggle to deeply integrate visual information into their predominantly text-based reasoning processes, a key challenge in mirroring human cognition. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ziwei Zheng , Michael Yang , Jack Hong , Chenxiao Zhao , Guohai Xu , Le Yang , Chao Shen , Xing Yu

The practical impact of deep learning on complex supervised learning problems has been significant, so much so that almost every Artificial Intelligence problem, or at least a portion thereof, has been somehow recast as a deep learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-19 Housam Khalifa Bashier Babiker , Randy Goebel

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated enhanced reasoning capabilities, evolving from Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting to advanced, product-oriented solutions like OpenAI o1. During our re-implementation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Hai-Long Sun , Zhun Sun , Houwen Peng , Han-Jia Ye

Visual reasoning is a special visual question answering problem that is multi-step and compositional by nature, and also requires intensive text-vision interactions. We propose CMM: Cascaded Mutual Modulation as a novel end-to-end visual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Yiqun Yao , Jiaming Xu , Feng Wang , Bo Xu

We propose a model to learn visually grounded word embeddings (vis-w2v) to capture visual notions of semantic relatedness. While word embeddings trained using text have been extremely successful, they cannot uncover notions of semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Satwik Kottur , Ramakrishna Vedantam , José M. F. Moura , Devi Parikh

Despite rapid advancements, current text-to-image (T2I) models predominantly rely on a single-step generation paradigm, which struggles with complex semantics and faces diminishing returns from parameter scaling. While recent multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hanbo Cheng , Limin Lin , Ruo Zhang , Yicheng Pan , Jun Du

Understanding visual reality involves acquiring common-sense knowledge about countless regularities in the visual world, e.g., how illumination alters the appearance of objects in a scene, and how motion changes their apparent spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Filip Piekniewski , Patryk Laurent , Csaba Petre , Micah Richert , Dimitry Fisher , Todd Hylton

Different from Visual Question Answering task that requires to answer only one question about an image, Visual Dialogue involves multiple questions which cover a broad range of visual content that could be related to any objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Xiaoze Jiang , Jing Yu , Zengchang Qin , Yingying Zhuang , Xingxing Zhang , Yue Hu , Qi Wu

In-context imitation learning enables robots to adapt to new tasks from a small number of demonstrations without additional training. However, existing approaches typically condition only on state-action trajectories and lack explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Toan Nguyen , Weiduo Yuan , Songlin Wei , Hui Li , Daniel Seita , Yue Wang

Detecting AI-generated images with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has gained increasing attention, due to their rich world knowledge, common-sense reasoning, and potential for explainability. However, naively applying those MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kaiqing Lin , Zhiyuan Yan , Ruoxin Chen , Junyan Ye , Ke-Yue Zhang , Yue Zhou , Peng Jin , Bin Li , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding

Learning continually from a stream of non-i.i.d. data is an open challenge in deep learning, even more so when working in resource-constrained environments such as embedded devices. Visual models that are continually updated through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Clea Rebillard , Julio Hurtado , Andrii Krutsylo , Lucia Passaro , Vincenzo Lomonaco

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) predicts an answer with corresponding rationale, given a question-image input. VCR is a recently introduced visual scene understanding task with a wide range of applications, including visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xuejiao Tang , Xin Huang , Wenbin Zhang , Travers B. Child , Qiong Hu , Zhen Liu , Ji Zhang

A desirable trait of an artificial agent acting in the visual world is to continually learn a sequence of language-informed tasks while striking a balance between sufficiently specializing in each task and building a generalized knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Kyra Ahrens , Lennart Bengtson , Jae Hee Lee , Stefan Wermter

While reinforcement learning (RL) over chains of thought has significantly advanced language models in tasks such as mathematics and coding, visual reasoning introduces added complexity by requiring models to direct visual attention,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Gabriel Sarch , Snigdha Saha , Naitik Khandelwal , Ayush Jain , Michael J. Tarr , Aviral Kumar , Katerina Fragkiadaki

The cognitive faculty of visual reasoning necessitates the integration of multimodal perceptual processing and commonsense and external knowledge of the world. In recent years, a plethora of large vision-language models (LVLMs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Tien-Huy Nguyen , Quang-Khai Tran , Anh-Tuan Quang-Hoang