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Objects' motions in nature are governed by complex interactions and their properties. While some properties, such as shape and material, can be identified via the object's visual appearances, others like mass and electric charge are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zhenfang Chen , Kexin Yi , Yunzhu Li , Mingyu Ding , Antonio Torralba , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

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Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal comprehension and reasoning capabilities, yet they often struggle with trivially simple visual tasks. In this work, we focus on the domain of basic 2D Euclidean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hyunsik Chae , Seungwoo Yoon , Jaden Park , Chloe Yewon Chun , Yongin Cho , Mu Cai , Yong Jae Lee , Ernest K. Ryu

Understanding geometry relies heavily on vision. In this work, we evaluate whether state-of-the-art vision language models (VLMs) can understand simple geometric concepts. We use a paradigm from cognitive science that isolates visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Eliza Kosoy , Annya Dahmani , Andrew K. Lampinen , Iulia M. Comsa , Soojin Jeong , Ishita Dasgupta , Kelsey Allen

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed as general-purpose tools for scientific data interpretation, yet their reliability on real astronomical observations across diverse modalities remains untested. We present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wenke Ren , Hengxiao Guo , Wenwen Zuo , Xiaoman Zhang

In recent years large visual-language (V+L) models have achieved great success in various downstream tasks. However, it is not well studied whether these models have a conceptual grasp of the visual content. In this work we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Madeline Schiappa , Raiyaan Abdullah , Shehreen Azad , Jared Claypoole , Michael Cogswell , Ajay Divakaran , Yogesh Rawat

Recent research on Vision Language Models (VLMs) suggests that they rely on inherent biases learned during training to respond to questions about visual properties of an image. These biases are exacerbated when VLMs are asked highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Saurav Sengupta , Nazanin Moradinasab , Jiebei Liu , Donald E. Brown

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence and robotics due to their commonsense reasoning capabilities. In robotic manipulation, VLMs are used primarily as high-level planners, but recent work has also…

Do vision-language models (VLMs) pre-trained to caption an image of a "durian" learn visual concepts such as "brown" (color) and "spiky" (texture) at the same time? We aim to answer this question as visual concepts learned "for free" would…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) trained on web-scale corpora excel at natural image tasks and are increasingly repurposed for healthcare; however, their competence in medical tasks remains underexplored. We present a comprehensive evaluation…

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Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a variety of promising capabilities in robotics, including long-horizon planning and commonsense reasoning. However, their performance in place recognition is still underexplored. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Zonglin Lyu , Juexiao Zhang , Mingxuan Lu , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

Generalizable robotic mobile manipulation in open-world environments poses significant challenges due to long horizons, complex goals, and partial observability. A promising approach to address these challenges involves planning with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Linfeng Zhao , Willie McClinton , Aidan Curtis , Nishanth Kumar , Tom Silver , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Lawson L. S. Wong

We introduce VLM-Lens, a toolkit designed to enable systematic benchmarking, analysis, and interpretation of vision-language models (VLMs) by supporting the extraction of intermediate outputs from any layer during the forward pass of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hala Sheta , Eric Huang , Shuyu Wu , Ilia Alenabi , Jiajun Hong , Ryker Lin , Ruoxi Ning , Daniel Wei , Jialin Yang , Jiawei Zhou , Ziqiao Ma , Freda Shi

Despite tremendous recent advances in large model reasoning ability, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with detailed visual reasoning, especially when compute resources are limited. To address this challenge, we draw inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Sunil Kumar , Bowen Zhao , Leo Dirac , Paulina Varshavskaya

Recent advancements in multimodal techniques open exciting possibilities for models excelling in diverse tasks involving text, audio, and image processing. Models like GPT-4V, blending computer vision and language modeling, excel in complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xiang Zhang , Senyu Li , Zijun Wu , Ning Shi

Vision language models (VLMs) perform well on many tasks but often fail at spatial reasoning, which is essential for navigation and interaction with physical environments. Many spatial reasoning tasks depend on fundamental two-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yihong Tang , Ao Qu , Zhaokai Wang , Dingyi Zhuang , Zhaofeng Wu , Wei Ma , Shenhao Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Zhan Zhao , Jinhua Zhao

The ability to distinguish subtle differences between visually similar images is essential for diverse domains such as industrial anomaly detection, medical imaging, and aerial surveillance. While comparative reasoning benchmarks for…

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Accurately predicting human behaviors is crucial for mobile robots operating in human-populated environments. While prior research primarily focuses on predicting actions in single-human scenarios from an egocentric view, several robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Utsav Panchal , Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello

Vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual information, enabling a wide range of applications such as image captioning and visual question answering, making them crucial for modern AI systems. However, their high…

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