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While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at single-image understanding, they exhibit significantly degraded performance in multi-image reasoning scenarios. Multi-image reasoning presents fundamental challenges including complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jianghao Yin , Qingbin Li , Kun Sun , Cheng Ding , Jie Wang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Nan Wang , Changqing Li , Pei Wu , Jian Xu , Zheming Yang , Liang He

Current video understanding models rely on fixed frame sampling strategies, processing predetermined visual inputs regardless of the specific reasoning requirements of each question. This static approach limits their ability to adaptively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Haonan Ge , Yiwei Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Hang Wu , Yujun Cai

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in integrating linguistic and visual reasoning but remain fundamentally limited in understanding dynamic spatiotemporal interactions. Humans effortlessly track and reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shijie Zhou , Alexander Vilesov , Xuehai He , Ziyu Wan , Shuwang Zhang , Aditya Nagachandra , Di Chang , Dongdong Chen , Xin Eric Wang , Achuta Kadambi

Reasoning about temporal causality, particularly irreversible transformations of objects governed by real-world knowledge (e.g., fruit decay and human aging), is a fundamental aspect of human visual understanding. Unlike temporal perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zeqing Wang , Shiyuan Zhang , Chengpei Tang , Keze Wang

The ability to perform Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning marks a major milestone for multimodal models (MMs), enabling them to solve complex visual reasoning problems. Yet a critical question remains: is such reasoning genuinely grounded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Xiaoyang Guo , Sidi Liu , Qinhan Lv , Ruiqi Chen , Jing Yang , Yijia Fan , Xiaofei Sun , Jian Wang , Ziliang Chen , Liang Lin , Keze Wang

Humans possess spatial reasoning abilities that enable them to understand spaces through multimodal observations, such as vision and sound. Large multimodal reasoning models extend these abilities by learning to perceive and reason, showing…

Video Models have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity video generation with coherent motion dynamics. Analogous to the development from text generation to text-based reasoning in language modeling, the development of video models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Cheng Yang , Haiyuan Wan , Yiran Peng , Xin Cheng , Zhaoyang Yu , Jiayi Zhang , Junchi Yu , Xinlei Yu , Xiawu Zheng , Dongzhan Zhou , Chenglin Wu

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress across vision, audio, and language tasks, yet their performance on long-form, knowledge-intensive, and temporally structured educational content remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhuang Yu , Lei Shen , Jing Zhao , Shiliang Sun

Reasoning over dynamic visual content remains a central challenge for multimodal large language models. Recent thinking models generate explicit reasoning traces for interpretability; however, their reasoning often appears convincing while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated impressive performance on general video comprehension benchmarks. Nevertheless, for broader applications, the robustness of their temporal analysis capability needs to be thoroughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Jiafeng Liang , Shixin Jiang , Xuan Dong , Ning Wang , Zheng Chu , Hui Su , Jinlan Fu , Ming Liu , See-Kiong Ng , Bing Qin

Multi-modal language model has made advanced progress in vision and audio, but still faces significant challenges in dealing with complex reasoning tasks in the time series domain. The reasons are twofold. First, labels for multi-modal time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Haochuan Zhang , Chunhua Yang , Jie Han , Liyang Qin , Xiaoli Wang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly participate in human-AI interactions, evaluating their Theory of Mind (ToM) capabilities - particularly their ability to track dynamic mental states - becomes crucial. While existing benchmarks…

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Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve promising performance on visual and audio benchmarks independently. However, the ability of these models to process cross-modal information synchronously remains largely unexplored. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Ziwei Zhou , Rui Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been extended to the video domain, enabling sophisticated video-language understanding. However, existing Video LLMs often exhibit limitations in fine-grained temporal reasoning, restricting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bo-Cheng Chiu , Jen-Jee Chen , Yu-Chee Tseng , Feng-Chi Chen , An-Zi Yen

Large Video-Language Models (Video-LMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal understanding, yet their reasoning remains weakly grounded in space and time. We present Know-Show, a new benchmark designed to evaluate spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chinthani Sugandhika , Chen Li , Deepu Rajan , Basura Fernando

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit impressive cross-modal understanding and reasoning abilities, often assessed through multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that include an image, a question, and several options. However, many benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jinsheng Huang , Liang Chen , Taian Guo , Fu Zeng , Yusheng Zhao , Bohan Wu , Ye Yuan , Haozhe Zhao , Zhihui Guo , Yichi Zhang , Jingyang Yuan , Wei Ju , Luchen Liu , Tianyu Liu , Baobao Chang , Ming Zhang

What makes good representations for video understanding, such as anticipating future activities, or answering video-conditioned questions? While earlier approaches focus on end-to-end learning directly from video pixels, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shijie Wang , Qi Zhao , Minh Quan Do , Nakul Agarwal , Kwonjoon Lee , Chen Sun

A reliable driving assistant should provide consistent responses based on temporally grounded reasoning derived from observed information. In this work, we investigate whether Vision-Language Models (VLMs), when applied as driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chun-Peng Chang , Chen-Yu Wang , Holger Caesar , Alain Pagani

Current video moment retrieval excels at action-centric tasks but struggles with narrative content. Models can see \textit{what is happening} but fail to reason \textit{why it matters}. This semantic gap stems from the lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuanyue Zhong , Yuqiang Xie , Guanqun Bi , Jiangping Yang , Guibin Chen

Inducing reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is critical for achieving human-level perception and understanding. Existing methods mainly leverage LLM reasoning to analyze parsed visuals, often limited by static perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ziang Yan , Xinhao Li , Yinan He , Zhengrong Yue , Xiangyu Zeng , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Limin Wang , Yi Wang