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We introduce Blink, a new benchmark for multimodal language models (LLMs) that focuses on core visual perception abilities not found in other evaluations. Most of the Blink tasks can be solved by humans "within a blink" (e.g., relative…

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Spatial reasoning is a core component of human cognition, enabling individuals to perceive, comprehend, and interact with the physical world. It relies on a nuanced understanding of spatial structures and inter-object relationships, serving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zesen Lyu , Dandan Zhang , Wei Ye , Fangdi Li , Zhihang Jiang , Yao Yang

As video large language models (Video-LLMs) become increasingly integrated into real-world applications that demand grounded multimodal reasoning, ensuring their factual consistency and reliability is of critical importance. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wenrui Zhou , Mohamed Hendy , Shu Yang , Qingsong Yang , Zikun Guo , Yuyu Luo , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Background: The rapid integration of foundation models into clinical practice and public health necessitates a rigorous evaluation of their true clinical reasoning capabilities beyond narrow examination success. Current benchmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Dingyu Wang , Zimu Yuan , Jiajun Liu , Shanggui Liu , Nan Zhou , Tianxing Xu , Di Huang , Dong Jiang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive world knowledge across a wide range of tasks, making them promising candidates for embodied reasoning applications. However, existing benchmarks primarily evaluate the embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haotian Xue , Yunhao Ge , Yu Zeng , Zhaoshuo Li , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen , Jiaojiao Fan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at recognizing individual visual elements and reasoning over simple linear diagrams. However, when faced with complex topological structures involving branching paths, converging flows, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Qiang Xu , Shengyuan Bai , Yu Wang , He Cao , Leqing Chen , Yuanyuan Liu , Bin Feng , Zijing Liu , Yu Li

Vision-language models (VLMs) hold promise for enhancing visualization tools, but effective human-AI collaboration hinges on a shared perceptual understanding of visual content. Prior studies assessed VLM visualization literacy through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Péter Ferenc Gyarmati , Manfred Klaffenböck , Laura Koesten , Torsten Möller

Vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong zero-shot generalization on natural images and show early promise in interpretable medical image analysis. However, existing benchmarks do not systematically evaluate whether these models truly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Tianhong Zhou , Yin Xu , Yingtao Zhu , Chuxi Xiao , Haiyang Bian , Lei Wei , Xuegong Zhang

Large language models have shown impressive results for multi-hop mathematical reasoning when the input question is only textual. Many mathematical reasoning problems, however, contain both text and image. With the ever-increasing adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mehran Kazemi , Hamidreza Alvari , Ankit Anand , Jialin Wu , Xi Chen , Radu Soricut

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced new possibilities and challenges in physics education, necessitating rigorous evaluation of their capabilities as both problem solvers and automated assessors. This paper…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-25 Jonah R. Donaldson , Aliya Navaz , Konstantinos Doran , Alysta Lim , Mario Campanelli

Despite progress on general tasks, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with challenges that demand both fine-grained visual grounding and external knowledge, a synergy overlooked by existing benchmarks that evaluate these abilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yifan Jiang , Cong Zhang , Bofei Zhang , Qiaofeng Zheng , Yifan Yang , Bingzhang Wang , Yew-Soon Ong

By providing substantial amounts of data and standardized evaluation protocols, datasets in computer vision have helped fuel advances across all areas of visual recognition. But even in light of breakthrough results on recent benchmarks, it…

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Semantic Segmentation is a significant research field in Computer Vision. Despite being a widely studied subject area, many visualization tools do not exist that capture segmentation quality and dataset statistics such as a class imbalance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Sourajit Saha , Shubhashis Roy Dipta

Large multimodal models (LMMs) encode physical laws observed during training, such as momentum conservation, as parametric knowledge. It allows LMMs to answer physical reasoning queries, such as the outcome of a potential collision event…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Gautam Sreekumar , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and reasoning about visual content, but significant challenges persist in tasks requiring cross-viewpoint understanding and spatial reasoning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dingming Li , Hongxing Li , Zixuan Wang , Yuchen Yan , Hang Zhang , Siqi Chen , Guiyang Hou , Shengpei Jiang , Wenqi Zhang , Yongliang Shen , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive results on vision-language benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether these benchmarks assess genuine global reasoning or allow success via localized visual cues. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Amit Agarwal , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Srikant Panda , Hansa Meghwani , Jyotika Singh , Karan Dua , Paul Li , Tao Sheng , Sujith Ravi , Dan Roth

While foundation models (FMs), such as diffusion models and large vision-language models (LVLMs), have been widely applied in educational contexts, their ability to generate pedagogically effective visual explanations remains limited. Most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Haonian Ji , Shi Qiu , Siyang Xin , Siwei Han , Zhaorun Chen , Dake Zhang , Hongyi Wang , Huaxiu Yao

Although large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a wide range of multimodal tasks, their true reasoning capabilities on human IQ tests remain underexplored. To advance research on the fluid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tan-Hanh Pham , Phu-Vinh Nguyen , Dang The Hung , Bui Trong Duong , Vu Nguyen Thanh , Chris Ngo , Tri Quang Truong , Truong-Son Hy

Understanding and reasoning about physics is an important ability of intelligent agents. We develop the PHYRE benchmark for physical reasoning that contains a set of simple classical mechanics puzzles in a 2D physical environment. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Anton Bakhtin , Laurens van der Maaten , Justin Johnson , Laura Gustafson , Ross Girshick

Human-level agentic intelligence extends beyond low-level geometric perception, evolving from recognizing where things are to understanding what they are for. While existing benchmarks effectively evaluate the geometric perception…