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Explainable machine learning significantly improves the transparency of deep neural networks. However, existing work is constrained to explaining the behavior of individual model predictions, and lacks the ability to transfer the…

Despite progress in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), their capacity for visual reasoning is often limited by the binding problem: the failure to reliably associate perceptual features with their correct visual referents. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Amirmohammad Izadi , Mohammad Ali Banayeeanzade , Fatemeh Askari , Ali Rahimiakbar , Mohammad Mahdi Vahedi , Hosein Hasani , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Generating high-quality Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) is challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs), as it requires advanced reasoning for structural validity, semantic accuracy, and visual coherence -- areas where current LLMs often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ximing Xing , Ziteng Xue , Yandong Guan , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu

We propose VRL3, a powerful data-driven framework with a simple design for solving challenging visual deep reinforcement learning (DRL) tasks. We analyze a number of major obstacles in taking a data-driven approach, and present a suite of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Che Wang , Xufang Luo , Keith Ross , Dongsheng Li

Despite significant advances in Vision Language Models (VLMs), they remain constrained by the complexity and redundancy of visual input. When images contain large amounts of irrelevant information, VLMs are susceptible to interference, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xinyu Zhang , Yuxuan Dong , Lingling Zhang , Chengyou Jia , Zhuohang Dang , Basura Fernando , Jun Liu , Mike Zheng Shou

Recently, reasoning-based MLLMs have achieved a degree of success in generating long-form textual reasoning chains. However, they still struggle with complex tasks that necessitate dynamic and iterative focusing on and revisiting of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Chaoya Jiang , Yongrui Heng , Wei Ye , Han Yang , Haiyang Xu , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Shikun Zhang

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

Multimodal LLMs are turning their focus to video benchmarks, however most video benchmarks only provide outcome supervision, with no intermediate or interpretable reasoning steps. This makes it challenging to assess if models are truly able…

What does it take to build a visual reasoner that works across charts, science, spatial understanding, and open-ended tasks? The strongest vision-language models (VLMs) show such broad visual reasoning is within reach, but the recipe behind…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gabriel Sarch , Linrong Cai , Qunzhong Wang , Haoyang Wu , Danqi Chen , Zhuang Liu

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models have driven breakthroughs in visual question answering. Yet, a critical gap persists, `conceptualization'-the ability to recognize and reason about the same concept despite variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zahra Babaiee , Peyman M. Kiasari , Daniela Rus , Radu Grosu

In this paper, we propose a transformer based approach for visual grounding. Unlike previous proposal-and-rank frameworks that rely heavily on pretrained object detectors or proposal-free frameworks that upgrade an off-the-shelf one-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Ye Du , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of how to effectively master tool-use to solve complex visual reasoning tasks for Multimodal Large Language Models. To achieve that, we propose a novel Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Qihua Dong , Gozde Sahin , Pei Wang , Zhaowei Cai , Robik Shrestha , Hao Yang , Davide Modolo

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit impressive performance across various visual tasks. Subsequent investigations into enhancing their visual reasoning abilities have significantly expanded their performance envelope. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yang Chen , Yufan Shen , Wenxuan Huang , Sheng Zhou , Qunshu Lin , Xinyu Cai , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu , Botian Shi , Yu Qiao

The transition from image to video understanding requires vision-language models (VLMs) to shift from recognizing static patterns to reasoning over temporal dynamics such as motion trajectories, speed changes, and state transitions. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Songtao Jiang , Sibo Song , Chenyi Zhou , Yuan Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Tongkun Guan , Ruilin Luo , Yan Zhang , Zhihang Tang , Yuchong Sun , Hang Zhang , Zhibo Yang , Shuai Bai , Junyang Lin , Zuozhu Liu

Complex visual reasoning and question answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires compositional multi-step processing and higher-level reasoning capabilities beyond the immediate recognition and localization of objects and events.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Shantanu Jaiswal , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando , Cheston Tan

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown significant advancements in video understanding, especially in feature alignment, event reasoning, and instruction-following tasks. However, their capability for counterfactual reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yuefei Chen , Jiang Liu , Xiaodong Lin , Ruixiang Tang

Despite substantial progress in applying neural networks (NN) to a wide variety of areas, they still largely suffer from a lack of transparency and interpretability. While recent developments in explainable artificial intelligence attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yunhao Ge , Yao Xiao , Zhi Xu , Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Laurent Itti , Ziyan Wu

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) is a vision-language task that requires an agent to correctly answer image-related questions using knowledge that is not presented in the given image. It is not only a more challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mingxiao Li , Marie-Francine Moens

Multi-view visual reasoning is essential for intelligent systems that must understand complex environments from sparse and discrete viewpoints, yet existing research has largely focused on single-image or temporally dense video settings. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Fucai Ke , Zhixi Cai , Boying Li , Long Chen , Beibei Lin , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Gholamreza Haffari , Hamid Rezatofighi

The advancement of 3D vision-language (3D VL) learning is hindered by several limitations in existing 3D VL datasets: they rarely necessitate reasoning beyond a close range of objects in single viewpoint, and annotations often link…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Wentao Mo , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Siyuan Huang , Yang Liu