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Video reasoning, which requires multi-step deduction across frames, remains a major challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods enhance reasoning capabilities, they often rely on…

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Natural language rationales could provide intuitive, higher-level explanations that are easily understandable by humans, complementing the more broadly studied lower-level explanations based on gradients or attention weights. We present the…

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'Actions' play a vital role in how humans interact with the world. Thus, autonomous agents that would assist us in everyday tasks also require the capability to perform 'Reasoning about Actions & Change' (RAC). This has been an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Pratyay Banerjee , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their multimodal extensions (MLLMs) have substantially enhanced machine reasoning across diverse tasks. However, these models predominantly rely on pure text as the medium for both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yi Xu , Chengzu Li , Han Zhou , Xingchen Wan , Caiqi Zhang , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

Time-series table reasoning interprets temporal patterns and relationships in data to answer user queries. Despite recent advancements leveraging large language models (LLMs), existing methods often struggle with pattern recognition,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jianing Hao , Zhuowen Liang , Chunting Li , Yuyu Luo , Jie Li , Wei Zeng

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

This work deals with the challenge of learning and reasoning over language and vision data for the related downstream tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) and natural language for visual reasoning (NLVR). We design a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Chen Zheng , Quan Guo , Parisa Kordjamshidi

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), most existing methods in multimodal reasoning neglect the critical role of visual perception within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siyuan Huang , Xiaoye Qu , Yafu Li , Yun Luo , Zefeng He , Daizong Liu , Yu Cheng

Event-Level Video Question Answering (EVQA) requires complex reasoning across video events to obtain the visual information needed to provide optimal answers. However, despite significant progress in model performance, few studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenyang Lyu , Tianbo Ji , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Visual grounding (VG) aims to establish fine-grained alignment between vision and language. Ideally, it can be a testbed for vision-and-language models to evaluate their understanding of the images and texts and their reasoning abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zhihong Chen , Ruifei Zhang , Yibing Song , Xiang Wan , Guanbin Li

Visual reasoning, as a prominent research area, plays a crucial role in AI by facilitating concept formation and interaction with the world. However, current works are usually carried out separately on small datasets thus lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Mingyu Zhang , Jiting Cai , Mingyu Liu , Yue Xu , Cewu Lu , Yong-Lu Li

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

Scaling LLM-based embodied agents from text-only environments to complex multimodal settings remains a major challenge. Recent work identifies a perception-reasoning-decision gap in standalone Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mohamed Salim Aissi , Clemence Grislain , Clement Romac , Laure Soulier , Mohamed Chetouani , Olivier Sigaud , Nicolas Thome

Transformers have had a significant impact on natural language processing and have recently demonstrated their potential in computer vision. They have shown promising results over convolution neural networks in fundamental computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Rojina Kashefi , Leili Barekatain , Mohammad Sabokrou , Fatemeh Aghaeipoor

Recognition and reasoning are two pillars of visual understanding. However, these tasks have an imbalance in focus; whereas recent advances in neural networks have shown strong empirical performance in visual recognition, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Calvin Luo , Boqing Gong , Ting Chen , Chen Sun

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have benefited from Reinforcement Learning (RL) for enhanced reasoning. However, existing methods still face critical limitations, including the lack of low-level visual information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhiheng Wu , Tong Wang , Shuning Wang , Naiming Liu , Yumeng Zhang

Vision language models (VLMs) are increasingly capable of reasoning over images, but robust visual reasoning often requires re-grounding intermediate steps in the underlying visual evidence. Recent approaches typically rely on external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zeru Shi , Kai Mei , Yihao Quan , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Ruixiang Tang

We introduce CLEVR-Math, a multi-modal math word problems dataset consisting of simple math word problems involving addition/subtraction, represented partly by a textual description and partly by an image illustrating the scenario. The text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Adam Dahlgren Lindström , Savitha Sam Abraham

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reasoning on text and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are highly effective for visual perception, applying those models for visual instruction-based planning remains a widely open problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Mohamed Salim Aissi , Clemence Grislain , Mohamed Chetouani , Olivier Sigaud , Laure Soulier , Nicolas Thome

The spatial reasoning task aims to reason about the spatial relationships in 2D and 3D space, which is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. Although vision language models (VLMs) have developed rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xun Liang , Xin Guo , Zhongming Jin , Weihang Pan , Penghui Shang , Deng Cai , Binbin Lin , Jieping Ye