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Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable visual understanding performance on both vision-language and vision-centric tasks. However, they often fall short in integrating advanced, task-specific capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Yousong Zhu , Shurong Zheng , Fan Yang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that integrate visual and textual reasoning leverage chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to tackle complex visual tasks, yet continue to exhibit visual hallucinations and an over-reliance on textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jing Bi , Guangyu Sun , Ali Vosoughi , Chen Chen , Chenliang Xu

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

While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs). As a result, most LMMs default to verbalizing perceptual content into text, a strong limitation for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 André G. Viveiros , Nuno Gonçalves , Matthias Lindemann , André Martins

This paper is a pioneering work attempting to address abstract visual reasoning (AVR) problems for large vision-language models (VLMs). We make a common LLaVA-NeXT 7B model capable of perceiving and reasoning about specific AVR problems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Ke Zhu , Yu Wang , Jiangjiang Liu , Qunyi Xie , Shanshan Liu , Gang Zhang

Many vision and language tasks require commonsense reasoning beyond data-driven image and natural language processing. Here we adopt Visual Question Answering (VQA) as an example task, where a system is expected to answer a question in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Somak Aditya , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Efficient processing of high-resolution images is crucial for real-world vision-language applications. However, existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) incur substantial computational overhead due to the large number of vision tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jewon Lee , Wooksu Shin , Seungmin Yang , Ki-Ung Song , DongUk Lim , Jaeyeon Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Bo-Kyeong Kim

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Xiangyuan Lan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Counting serves as a simple but powerful test of a Large Vision-Language Model's (LVLM's) reasoning; it forces the model to identify each individual object and then add them all up. In this study, we investigate how LVLMs implement counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Liwei Che , Zhiyu Xue , Yihao Quan , Benlin Liu , Zeru Shi , Michelle Hurst , Jacob Feldman , Ruixiang Tang , Ranjay Krishna , Vladimir Pavlovic

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance on tasks such as visual grounding and visual question answering. However, the reasoning processes of these models remain largely opaque;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Haobo Yuan , Yueyi Sun , Yanwei Li , Tao Zhang , Xueqing Deng , Henghui Ding , Lu Qi , Anran Wang , Xiangtai Li , Ming-Hsuan Yang

The advancement of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) requires precise local region-based reasoning that faithfully grounds the model's logic in actual visual evidence. However, existing datasets face limitations in scalability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byeonggeuk Lim , Kyeonghyun Kim , JungMin Yun , YoungBin Kim

Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising direction for end-to-end autonomous driving (AD) by jointly modeling visual observations, driving context, and language-based reasoning. However, existing VLM-based systems face a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ximeng Tao , Pardis Taghavi , Dimitar Filev , Reza Langari , Gaurav Pandey

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Large Models (LVLMs) excel in single-turn tasks but face significant challenges in multi-turn interactions requiring deep contextual understanding and complex visual reasoning, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Weijie Shen , Xinrui Wang , Yuanqi Nie , Apiradee Boonmee

Multimodal large language models are increasingly expected to perform thinking with images, yet existing visual latent reasoning methods still rely on explicit textual chain-of-thought interleaved with visual latent tokens. This interleaved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Houcheng Jiang , Jiajun Fu , Junfeng Fang , Chen Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yong Li

A remarkable ability of human beings resides in compositional reasoning, i.e., the capacity to make "infinite use of finite means". However, current large vision-language foundation models (VLMs) fall short of such compositional abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Junyan Li , Delin Chen , Yining Hong , Zhenfang Chen , Peihao Chen , Yikang Shen , Chuang Gan

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Akshar Tumu , Varad Shinde , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as powerful generalist tools for remote sensing, capable of integrating information across diverse tasks and enabling flexible, instruction-based interactions via a chat interface. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Aysim Toker , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for autonomous driving but often lack transparent reasoning capabilities that are critical for safety. We investigate whether explicitly modeling reasoning during fine-tuning enhances VLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Amirhosein Chahe , Lifeng Zhou

Complex logical reasoning tasks require a long sequence of reasoning, which a large language model (LLM) with chain-of-thought prompting still falls short. To alleviate this issue, neurosymbolic approaches incorporate a symbolic solver.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hyun Ryu , Gyeongman Kim , Hyemin S. Lee , Eunho Yang