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Effective visual representation learning is crucial for reinforcement learning (RL) agents to extract task-relevant information from raw sensory inputs and generalize across diverse environments. However, existing RL benchmarks lack the…

We present SegLLM, a novel multi-round interactive reasoning segmentation model that enhances LLM-based segmentation by exploiting conversational memory of both visual and textual outputs. By leveraging a mask-aware multimodal LLM, SegLLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 XuDong Wang , Shaolun Zhang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Kehan Li , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

For half a century, artificial intelligence research has attempted to reproduce the human qualities of abstraction and reasoning - creating computer systems that can learn new concepts from a minimal set of examples, in settings where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Mikel Bober-Irizar , Soumya Banerjee

Spatial relations are a basic part of human cognition. However, they are expressed in natural language in a variety of ways, and previous work has suggested that current vision-and-language models (VLMs) struggle to capture relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Fangyu Liu , Guy Emerson , Nigel Collier

Multi-step retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a widely adopted strategy for enhancing large language models (LLMs) on tasks that demand global comprehension and intensive reasoning. Although many RAG systems incorporate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chulun Zhou , Chunkang Zhang , Guoxin Yu , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Wai Lam , Mo Yu

Top-view perspective denotes a typical way in which humans read and reason over different types of maps, and it is vital for localization and navigation of humans as well as of `non-human' agents, such as the ones backed by large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chengzu Li , Caiqi Zhang , Han Zhou , Nigel Collier , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

The increasing use of transformer-based large language models brings forward the challenge of processing long sequences. In document visual question answering (DocVQA), leading methods focus on the single-page setting, while documents can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tsachi Blau , Sharon Fogel , Roi Ronen , Alona Golts , Roy Ganz , Elad Ben Avraham , Aviad Aberdam , Shahar Tsiper , Ron Litman

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown great capability in enhancing Large Language Model (LLM)'s answer with an external knowledge base. Compared to traditional RAG, it introduces a graph as an intermediate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ke Wang , Bo Pan , Yingchaojie Feng , Yuwei Wu , Jieyi Chen , Minfeng Zhu , Wei Chen

This paper defines a new visual reasoning paradigm by introducing an important factor, i.e.~transformation. The motivation comes from the fact that most existing visual reasoning tasks, such as CLEVR in VQA, are solely defined to test how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Xin Hong , Yanyan Lan , Liang Pang , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

In recent years, developing AI for robotics has raised much attention. The interaction of vision and language of robots is particularly difficult. We consider that giving robots an understanding of visual semantics and language semantics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Cheng Yu Tsai , Mu-Chun Su

Learning to solve diagrammatic reasoning (DR) can be a challenging but interesting problem to the computer vision research community. It is believed that next generation pattern recognition applications should be able to simulate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Sk. Arif Ahmed , Debi Prosad Dogra , Samarjit Kar , Partha Pratim Roy , Dilip K. Prasad

Answering complex visual questions like `Which red furniture can be used for sitting?' requires multi-step reasoning, including object recognition, attribute filtering, and relational understanding. Recent work improves interpretability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yu Cheng , Arushi Goel , Hakan Bilen

Dramatic progress has been witnessed in basic vision tasks involving low-level perception, such as object recognition, detection, and tracking. Unfortunately, there is still an enormous performance gap between artificial vision systems and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Chi Zhang , Feng Gao , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu

Visual question answering requires high-order reasoning about an image, which is a fundamental capability needed by machine systems to follow complex directives. Recently, modular networks have been shown to be an effective framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 David Mascharka , Philip Tran , Ryan Soklaski , Arjun Majumdar

Successful robotic grasping in cluttered environments not only requires a model to visually ground a target object but also to reason about obstructions that must be cleared beforehand. While current vision-language embodied reasoning…

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

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved notable gains in various tasks by incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning in language spaces. Recent work extends this direction by leveraging external tools for visual editing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bangzheng Li , Ximeng Sun , Jiang Liu , Ze Wang , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Hao Chen , Emad Barsoum , Muhao Chen , Zicheng Liu

Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VRAG) enhances Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by incorporating external visual documents to address a given query. Existing VRAG frameworks usually depend on rigid, pre-defined external tools to extend…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yuqi Xiong , Chunyi Peng , Zhipeng Xu , Zhenghao Liu , Zulong Chen , Yukun Yan , Shuo Wang , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Visual Language Models (VLMs) show remarkable performance in visual reasoning tasks, successfully tackling college-level challenges that require high-level understanding of images. However, some recent reports of VLMs struggling to reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Gene Tangtartharakul , Katherine R. Storrs

Chain-of-thought reasoning has significantly improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various domains. However, this reasoning process has been confined exclusively to textual space, limiting its effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Haozhe Wang , Alex Su , Weiming Ren , Fangzhen Lin , Wenhu Chen