English
Related papers

Related papers: ConMe: Rethinking Evaluation of Compositional Reas…

200 papers

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. Yet, the extent to which these models perform visual reasoning as opposed to relying on linguistic priors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Brigitta Malagurski Törtei , Yasser Dahou , Ngoc Dung Huynh , Wamiq Reyaz Para , Phúc H. Lê Khac , Ankit Singh , Sofian Chaybouti , Sanath Narayan

Current Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate a critical gap between surface-level recognition and deep narrative reasoning when processing sequential visual storytelling. Through a comprehensive investigation of manga narrative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Aaditya Baranwal , Madhav Kataria , Naitik Agrawal , Yogesh S Rawat , Shruti Vyas

When MLLMs fail at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) visual reasoning, a fundamental question arises: is it due to perceptual deficiencies or reasoning limitations? Through systematic scaling analysis that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Tongkun Guan , Zhibo Yang , Jianqiang Wan , Mingkun Yang , Zhengtao Guo , Zijian Hu , Ruilin Luo , Ruize Chen , Songtao Jiang , Peng Wang , Wei Shen , Junyang Lin , Xiaokang Yang

MLLMs MLLMs are beginning to appear in clinical workflows, but their ability to perform complex medical reasoning remains unclear. We present Med-CMR, a fine-grained Medical Complex Multimodal Reasoning benchmark. Med-CMR distinguishes from…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly described as possessing strong reasoning capabilities, supported by high performance on mathematical, logical, and planning benchmarks. However, most existing evaluations rely on aggregate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Md. Fahad Ullah Utsho , Mohd. Ruhul Ameen , Akif Islam , Md. Golam Rashed , Dipankar Das

LLM-based formal proof assistants (e.g., in Lean) hold great promise for automating mathematical discovery. But beyond syntactic correctness, do these systems truly understand mathematical structure as humans do? We investigate this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haoyu Zhao , Yihan Geng , Shange Tang , Yong Lin , Bohan Lyu , Hongzhou Lin , Chi Jin , Sanjeev Arora

Visual understanding goes well beyond object recognition. With one glance at an image, we can effortlessly imagine the world beyond the pixels: for instance, we can infer people's actions, goals, and mental states. While this task is easy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Rowan Zellers , Yonatan Bisk , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Minkyu Kim , Sangheon Lee , Dongmin Park

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been shown to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), enabling the development of large reasoning models (LRMs). However, LRMs such as DeepSeek-R1 and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuhao Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Cheng Gong , Ziru Liu , Suiyun Zhang , Rui Liu , Xiangyu Zhao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on implicit and explicit visual grounding and related tasks. However, such abilities are generally tested on simple, single-object phrases. We find that grounding performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiayun Luo , Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Pritam Sarkar , Boyang Li , Leonid Sigal

Humans tend to decompose a sentence into different parts like \textsc{sth do sth at someplace} and then fill each part with certain content. Inspired by this, we follow the \textit{principle of modular design} to propose a novel image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xu Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Chongyang Gao , Jianfei Cai

The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) has seen them excel and frequently surpass human performance on standard benchmarks. This has enabled many downstream applications, such as LLM agents, to rely on their reasoning to address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Harsh Kohli , Sachin Kumar , Huan Sun

Inspired by human categorization, object property reasoning involves identifying and recognizing low-level details and higher-level abstractions. While current visual question answering (VQA) studies consider multiple object properties,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Abhishek Kolari , Mohammadhossein Khojasteh , Yifan Jiang , Floris den Hengst , Filip Ilievski

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) calls for explanatory reasoning behind question answering over visual scenes. To achieve this goal, a model is required to provide an acceptable rationale as the reason for the predicted answers. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Xiaolin Chen , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Pretrained multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong performance on diverse multimodal tasks, but remain limited in reasoning capabilities for domains where annotations are difficult to collect. In this work, we focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xinyi Gu , Jiayuan Mao , Zhang-Wei Hong , Zhuoran Yu , Pengyuan Li , Dhiraj Joshi , Rogerio Feris , Zexue He

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to automate programming tasks. Yet, LLMs' capabilities in reasoning about program semantics are still inadequately studied, leaving significant potential for further exploration. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Toby Murray

Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly adopted in the software engineering domain, yet the robustness of their grasp on core software design concepts remains unclear. We conduct an empirical study to systematically evaluate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mootez Saad , Boqi Chen , José Antonio Hernández López , Dániel Varró , Tushar Sharma

Pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance in image retrieval from text. However, their performance drops drastically when confronted with linguistically complex texts that they struggle to comprehend.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Yunxin Li , Baotian Hu , Yuxin Ding , Lin Ma , Min Zhang

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have greatly improved cross-modal semantic understanding, yet significant limitations remain in fine-grained discrimination and deep causal reasoning tasks. Existing VLMs often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Yijia Fan , Jian Wang , Keze Wang