English
Related papers

Related papers: VisualCoder: Guiding Large Language Models in Code…

200 papers

Vision-Language Models (VLM) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, showing promise for end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Chain-of-Thought (CoT), as VLM's widely used reasoning strategy, is facing critical challenges. Existing textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Lingjun Zhang , Yujian Yuan , Changjie Wu , Xinyuan Chang , Xin Cai , Shuang Zeng , Linzhe Shi , Sijin Wang , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu

Multimodal code generation has garnered significant interest within the research community. Despite the notable success of recent vision-language models (VLMs) on specialized tasks like chart-to-code generation, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xuanle Zhao , Deyang Jiang , Zhixiong Zeng , Lei Chen , Haibo Qiu , Jing Huang , Yufeng Zhong , Liming Zheng , Yilin Cao , Lin Ma

LLMs demonstrate surface-level fluency in code generation but struggle with structured reasoning tasks requiring correctness and semantic alignment. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enhances reasoning through intermediate steps, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xunzhu Tang , Iyiola Emmanuel Olatunji , Tiezhu Sun , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande

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

In large language models (LLMs), code and reasoning reinforce each other: code offers an abstract, modular, and logic-driven structure that supports reasoning, while reasoning translates high-level goals into smaller, executable steps that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Dayu Yang , Tianyang Liu , Daoan Zhang , Antoine Simoulin , Xiaoyi Liu , Yuwei Cao , Zhaopu Teng , Xin Qian , Grey Yang , Jiebo Luo , Julian McAuley

Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. They decompose complex questions into multiple reasoning steps and invoke specialized models for each step to solve the problems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xueqing Wu , Zongyu Lin , Songyan Zhao , Te-Lin Wu , Pan Lu , Nanyun Peng , Kai-Wei Chang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant success in multimodal tasks, with multimodal chain-of-thought (MCoT) further enhancing performance and interpretability. Recent MCoT methods fall into two categories: (i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zihui Cheng , Qiguang Chen , Xiao Xu , Jiaqi Wang , Weiyun Wang , Hao Fei , Yidong Wang , Alex Jinpeng Wang , Zhi Chen , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with precise reasoning for structured visuals like charts and diagrams, as pixel-based perception lacks a mechanism for verification. To address this, we propose to leverage derendering --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Junhong Shen , Mu Cai , Bo Hu , Ameet Talwalkar , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid , Alireza Fathi

Geometry problem-solving demands advanced reasoning abilities to process multimodal inputs and employ mathematical knowledge effectively. Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in various multimodal tasks. Yet, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Aditya Sharma , Aman Dalmia , Mehran Kazemi , Amal Zouaq , Christopher J. Pal

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have recently demonstrated amazing success in multi-modal tasks, including advancements in Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought (MCoT) reasoning. Despite these successes, current benchmarks still follow a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zihui Cheng , Qiguang Chen , Jin Zhang , Hao Fei , Xiaocheng Feng , Wanxiang Che , Min Li , Libo Qin

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable prowess in code generation. However, automated code generation is still challenging since it requires a high-level semantic mapping between natural language requirements and codes. Most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yingwei Ma , Yue Yu , Shanshan Li , Yu Jiang , Yong Guo , Yuanliang Zhang , Yutao Xie , Xiangke Liao

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in multimodal perception and understanding. However, leading open-source MLLMs exhibit significant limitations in complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jingjing Jiang , Chao Ma , Xurui Song , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Luo

Visual reasoning is crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to address complex chart queries, yet high-quality rationale data remains scarce. Existing methods leveraged (M)LLMs for data generation, but direct prompting often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zijian Li , Jingjing Fu , Lei Song , Jiang Bian , Jun Zhang , Rui Wang

Many reasoning, planning, and problem-solving tasks share an intrinsic algorithmic nature: correctly simulating each step is a sufficient condition to solve them correctly. This work studies to what extent Large Language Models (LLMs) can…

Multimodal geometry reasoning requires models to jointly understand visual diagrams and perform structured symbolic inference, yet current vision--language models struggle with complex geometric constructions due to limited training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haobo Lin , Tianyi Bai , Chen Chen , Jiajun Zhang , Bohan Zeng , Wentao Zhang , Binhang Yuan

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning enhances performance of large language models, but questions remain about whether these reasoning traces faithfully reflect the internal processes of the model. We present the first comprehensive study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sriram Balasubramanian , Samyadeep Basu , Soheil Feizi

Code generation remains a challenging task that requires precise and structured reasoning. Existing Test Time Scaling (TTS) methods, including structured tree search, have made progress in exploring reasoning paths but still face two major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jizheng Chen , Weiming Zhang , Xinyi Dai , Weiwen Liu , Kounianhua Du , Yasheng Wang , Ruiming Tang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

By extending the advantage of chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in human-like step-by-step processes to multimodal contexts, multimodal CoT (MCoT) reasoning has recently garnered significant research attention, especially in the integration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yaoting Wang , Shengqiong Wu , Yuecheng Zhang , Shuicheng Yan , Ziwei Liu , Jiebo Luo , Hao Fei

Recent work has shown that eliciting Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate reasoning traces in natural language before answering the user's request can significantly improve their performance across tasks. This approach has been extended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sara Ghazanfari , Francesco Croce , Nicolas Flammarion , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami , Siddharth Garg

Despite great progress, existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are prone to visual hallucination, greatly impeding their trustworthy applications. In this paper, we study this problem from the perspective of visual-spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qiong Wu , Xiangcong Yang , Yiyi Zhou , Chenxin Fang , Baiyang Song , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji