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The sequential structure of videos poses a challenge to the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to locate multi-frame evidence and conduct multimodal reasoning. However, existing video benchmarks mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kejian Zhu , Zhuoran Jin , Hongbang Yuan , Jiachun Li , Shangqing Tu , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

The reasoning gap between large and compact vision-language models (VLMs) limits the deployment of medical AI on portable clinical devices. Compact VLMs of 2--4B parameters can run on resource-constrained hardware but lack the multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Runze Ma , Shunbo Jia , Haonan Lyu , Guo Liu , Caizhi Liao

The visual world around us constantly evolves, from real-time news and social media trends to global infrastructure changes visible through satellite imagery and augmented reality enhancements. However, Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Mingyang Fu , Yuyang Peng , Dongping Chen , Zetong Zhou , Benlin Liu , Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Philip S. Yu , Ranjay Krishna

The rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has enabled browsing agents to acquire and reason over multimodal information in the real world. But existing benchmarks suffer from two limitations: insufficient evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhengbo Zhang , Jinbo Su , Zhaowen Zhou , Changtao Miao , Yuhan Hong , Qimeng Wu , Yumeng Liu , Feier Wu , Yihe Tian , Yuhao Liang , Zitong Shan , Wanke Xia , Yi-Fan Zhang , Bo Zhang , Zhe Li , Shiming Xiang , Ying Yan

Language models (LMs) and their extension, vision-language models (VLMs), have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks that require multimodal or multilingual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenyi Wu , Zixuan Song , Kun Zhou , Yifei Shao , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR), which aims to find a target image from a reference image and a modification text, presents the core challenge of performing unified reasoning across visual and semantic modalities. While current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Weihuang Lin , Yiwei Ma , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Predicting program behavior and reasoning about code execution remain significant challenges in software engineering, particularly for large language models (LLMs) designed for code analysis. While these models excel at understanding static…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Cuong Chi Le , Hoang-Chau Truong-Vinh , Huy Nhat Phan , Dung Duy Le , Tien N. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

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

Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

Fully comprehending scientific papers by machines reflects a high level of Artificial General Intelligence, requiring the ability to reason across fragmented and heterogeneous sources of information, presenting a complex and practically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yang Tian , Zheng Lu , Mingqi Gao , Zheng Liu , Bo Zhao

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promising results for embodied agents in operating meaningfully in complex, human-centered environments. Yet, evaluating their capacity for nuanced, human-like reasoning and decision-making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhe Hu , Yixiao Ren , Guanzhong Liu , Jing Li , Yu Yin

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities, particularly in textual mathematical problem-solving. However, existing open-source image instruction fine-tuning datasets, containing limited question-answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenhao Shi , Zhiqiang Hu , Yi Bin , Junhua Liu , Yang Yang , See-Kiong Ng , Lidong Bing , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that integrate vision and language modalities has unlocked new potentials for scientific reasoning, outperforming prior benchmarks in both natural language and coding domains.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Sifan Wu , Huan Zhang , Yizhan Li , Farshid Effaty , Amirreza Ataei , Bang Liu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently demonstrated strong efficacy as visual assistants that can parse natural queries about the visual content and generate human-like outputs. In this work, we explore the ability of these models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yangyi Chen , Karan Sikka , Michael Cogswell , Heng Ji , Ajay Divakaran

Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities on text-rich images from charts, tables, and documents. However, the abundant text within such images may increase the model's sensitivity to language.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xinmiao Yu , Xiaocheng Feng , Yun Li , Minghui Liao , Ya-Qi Yu , Xiachong Feng , Weihong Zhong , Ruihan Chen , Mengkang Hu , Jihao Wu , Dandan Tu , Duyu Tang , Bing Qin

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for visual question answering (VQA), enabling reasoning and contextual understanding across visual and textual modalities. Despite their advancements, the evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nikitha SR

To utilize visual information, Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) relies on the perception process of its vision encoder. The completeness and accuracy of visual perception significantly influence the precision of spatial reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Runpeng Yu , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown great promise in language-guided perceptual tasks such as recognition, segmentation, and object detection. However, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xu Cao , Yifan Shen , Bolin Lai , Wenqian Ye , Yunsheng Ma , Joerg Heintz , Jintai Chen , Meihuan Huang , Jianguo Cao , Aidong Zhang , James M. Rehg

Multimodal reasoning is a critical component in the pursuit of artificial intelligence systems that exhibit human-like intelligence, especially when tackling complex tasks. While the chain-of-thought (CoT) technique has gained considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingxuan Wei , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Linzhuang Sun , Siyuan Li , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo , Stan Z. Li