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Abstract visual reasoning is a characteristically human ability, allowing the identification of relational patterns that are abstracted away from object features, and the systematic generalization of those patterns to unseen problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Jonathan D. Cohen , Taylor W. Webb

One of the challenges facing artificial intelligence research today is designing systems capable of utilizing systematic reasoning to generalize to new tasks. The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) measures such a capability through a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Simon Alford , Anshula Gandhi , Akshay Rangamani , Andrzej Banburski , Tony Wang , Sylee Dandekar , John Chin , Tomaso Poggio , Peter Chin

Beneath the stunning visual fidelity of modern AIGC models lies a "logical desert", where systems fail tasks that require physical, causal, or complex spatial reasoning. Current evaluations largely rely on superficial metrics or fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Haonan Han , Jiancheng Huang , Xiaopeng Sun , Junyan He , Rui Yang , Jie Hu , Xiaojiang Peng , Lin Ma , Xiaoming Wei , Xiu Li

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) aims at benchmarking the performance of general artificial intelligence algorithms. The ARC's focus on broad generalization and few-shot learning has made it difficult to solve using pure machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yudong Xu , Elias B. Khalil , Scott Sanner

Humans continue to outperform modern AI systems in their ability to flexibly parse and understand complex visual scenes. Here, we present a novel module for visual reasoning, the Guided Attention Model for (visual) Reasoning (GAMR), which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mohit Vaishnav , Thomas Serre

Traditional visual grounding methods primarily focus on single-image scenarios with simple textual references. However, extending these methods to real-world scenarios that involve implicit and complex instructions, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sule Bai , Mingxing Li , Yong Liu , Jing Tang , Haoji Zhang , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansong Tang

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a general artificial intelligence benchmark that poses difficulties for pure machine learning methods due to its requirement for fluid intelligence with a focus on reasoning and abstraction. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chao Lei , Nir Lipovetzky , Krista A. Ehinger

We introduce a cluster-based generative image segmentation framework to encode higher-level representations of visual concepts based on one-shot learning inspired by the Omniglot Challenge. The inferred parameters of each component of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Chelsea Zou , Kenneth J. Kurtz

Reasoning about complex visual scenes involves perception of entities and their relations. Scene graphs provide a natural representation for reasoning tasks, by assigning labels to both entities (nodes) and relations (edges). Unfortunately,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moshiko Raboh , Roei Herzig , Gal Chechik , Jonathan Berant , Amir Globerson

Question answering requiring discrete reasoning, e.g., arithmetic computing, comparison, and counting, over knowledge is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose UniRPG, a semantic-parsing-based approach advanced in interpretability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yongwei Zhou , Junwei Bao , Chaoqun Duan , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Tiejun Zhao

Unified models capable of interleaved generation have emerged as a promising paradigm, with the community increasingly converging on autoregressive modeling for text and flow matching for image generation. To advance this direction, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jie Liu , Zilyu Ye , Linxiao Yuan , Shenhan Zhu , Yu Gao , Jie Wu , Kunchang Li , Xionghui Wang , Xiaonan Nie , Weilin Huang , Wanli Ouyang

Abstract reasoning, i.e., inferring complicated patterns from given observations, is a central building block of artificial general intelligence. While humans find the answer by either eliminating wrong candidates or first constructing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Sihyun Yu , Sangwoo Mo , Sungsoo Ahn , Jinwoo Shin

Large language models, trained on extensive corpora, successfully unify diverse linguistic tasks within a single generative framework. Inspired by this, recent works like Large Vision Model (LVM) extend this paradigm to vision by organizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lan Chen , Yuchao Gu , Qi Mao

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) extends Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) with external visual knowledge. However, existing visual RAG systems typically rely on generic retrieval signals that overlook the fine-grained visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jun Wang , Shuo Tan , Zelong Sun , Tiancheng Gu , Yongle Zhao , Ziyong Feng , Kaicheng Yang , Zhiwu Lu

We present a continuation to our previous work, in which we developed the MR-CKR framework to reason with knowledge overriding across contexts organized in multi-relational hierarchies. Reasoning is realized via ASP with algebraic measures,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Loris Bozzato , Thomas Eiter , Rafael Kiesel , Daria Stepanova

Recognition and reasoning are two pillars of visual understanding. However, these tasks have an imbalance in focus; whereas recent advances in neural networks have shown strong empirical performance in visual recognition, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Calvin Luo , Boqing Gong , Ting Chen , Chen Sun

Learning abstractions directly from data is a core challenge in robotics. Humans naturally operate at an abstract level, reasoning over high-level subgoals while delegating execution to low-level motor skills -- an ability that enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Abhiroop Ajith , Constantinos Chamzas

Effectively retrieving, reasoning and understanding visually rich information remains a challenge for RAG methods. Traditional text-based methods cannot handle visual-related information. On the other hand, current vision-based RAG…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Qiuchen Wang , Ruixue Ding , Yu Zeng , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Shihang Wang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Feng Zhao

Unified multimodal models often struggle with complex synthesis tasks that demand deep reasoning, and typically treat text-to-image generation and image editing as isolated capabilities rather than interconnected reasoning steps. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dianyi Wang , Chaofan Ma , Feng Han , Size Wu , Wei Song , Yibin Wang , Zhixiong Zhang , Tianhang Wang , Siyuan Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Jiaqi Wang

Current visual reasoning methods mainly focus on exploring specific reasoning modes. Although improvements can be achieved in particular domains, they struggle to develop general reasoning capabilities. Inspired by this, we propose a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zejun Li , Yingxiu Zhao , Jiwen Zhang , Siyuan Wang , Yang Yao , Runzhou Zhao , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Zhongyu Wei