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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance in mathematics, code generation, and task planning, but their reliance on long chains of verbose "thinking" tokens leads to high latency, redundancy, and incoherent reasoning paths.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kumar Tanmay , Kriti Aggarwal , Paul Pu Liang , Subhabrata Mukherjee

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates that Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning enables systematic solutions to complex understanding tasks. However, its extension to generation tasks remains nascent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Siyu Jiao , Yiheng Lin , Yujie Zhong , Qi She , Wei Zhou , Xiaohan Lan , Zilong Huang , Fei Yu , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

This paper investigates the role of explicit thinking process in rule-based reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) for MLLMs. We first propose CLS-RL for MLLM image classification, using verifiable rewards for fine-tuning. Experiments show CLS-RL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ming Li , Jike Zhong , Shitian Zhao , Yuxiang Lai , Haoquan Zhang , Wang Bill Zhu , Kaipeng Zhang

Large reasoning models (LRMs) are proficient at generating explicit, step-by-step reasoning sequences before producing final answers. However, such detailed reasoning can introduce substantial computational overhead and latency,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Songjun Tu , Jiahao Lin , Qichao Zhang , Xiangyu Tian , Linjing Li , Xiangyuan Lan , Dongbin Zhao

Memory-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in long-term human-machine interactions, which basically relies on iterative recalling and reasoning of history to generate high-quality responses.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Lei Liu , Xiaoyan Yang , Yue Shen , Binbin Hu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jinjie Gu , Guannan Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at understanding single images, aided by high-quality instruction datasets. However, multi-image reasoning remains underexplored in the open-source community due to two key challenges: (1) scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Andrew Li , Rahul Thapa , Rahul Chalamala , Qingyang Wu , Kezhen Chen , James Zou

Despite the remarkable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) across a range of tasks, mathematical reasoning remains a challenging frontier. Motivated by the observation that humans learn more effectively when prompted not what to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Maria-Eleni Zoumpoulidi , Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Alexandros Potamianos

Large language models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought reasoning have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving capabilities, but controlling their computational effort remains a significant challenge for practical deployment. Recent proprietary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qianyu He , Siyu Yuan , Xuefeng Li , Mingxuan Wang , Jiangjie Chen

Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically rely on text-only reasoning based on a single-pass visual encoding, which often leads to loss of fine-grained visual information. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Junfei Wu , Jian Guan , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Wei Wu , Tieniu Tan

In artificial intelligence (AI), the complexity of many models and processes surpasses human understanding, making it challenging to determine why a specific prediction is made. This lack of transparency is particularly problematic in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-30 Alexandra Stadler , Werner G. Müller , Radoslav Harman

Reinforcement Learning Finetuning (RFT) has significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by enabling long chains of thought, self-correction, and effective tool use. While recent works attempt to extend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mingyuan Wu , Jingcheng Yang , Jize Jiang , Meitang Li , Kaizhuo Yan , Hanchao Yu , Minjia Zhang , Chengxiang Zhai , Klara Nahrstedt

Recent text-guided image editing (TIE) models have achieved remarkable progress, however, many edited results still suffer from artifacts, unintended modifications, and suboptimal aesthetics. Although several benchmarks and evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Honghua Chen , Zitong Xu , Huiyu Duan , Xinyun Zhang , Xiongkuo Min , Guangtao Zhai

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their multimodal extensions (MLLMs) have substantially enhanced machine reasoning across diverse tasks. However, these models predominantly rely on pure text as the medium for both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Yi Xu , Chengzu Li , Han Zhou , Xingchen Wan , Caiqi Zhang , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

Under pure textual modality, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks by decomposing them into simpler sub-problems. However, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) still struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jingming Liu , Yumeng Li , Boyuan Xiao , Yichang Jian , Ziang Qin , Tianjia Shao , Yao-Xiang Ding , Kun Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly capable, but the mechanisms of their thinking and decision-making processes remain unclear. Chain-of-thoughts (CoTs) have been commonly utilized to externalize LLMs' thinking, but this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guanxu Chen , Jing Shao , Tao Luo , Lijie Hu , Qihao Lin , Dongrui Liu

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, they often struggle with complex tasks that require specific thinking paradigms, such as divide-and-conquer and procedural deduction, \etc Previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kechi Zhang , Ge Li , Jia Li , Huangzhao Zhang , Jingjing Xu , Hao Zhu , Lecheng Wang , Jia Li , Yihong Dong , Jing Mai , Bin Gu , Zhi Jin

We introduce Buffer of Thoughts (BoT), a novel and versatile thought-augmented reasoning approach for enhancing accuracy, efficiency and robustness of large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we propose meta-buffer to store a series of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ling Yang , Zhaochen Yu , Tianjun Zhang , Shiyi Cao , Minkai Xu , Wentao Zhang , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Bin Cui

Omni-modal reasoning is essential for intelligent systems to understand and draw inferences from diverse data sources. While existing omni-modal large language models (OLLM) excel at perceiving diverse modalities, they lack the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiran Guan , Sifan Tu , Dingkang Liang , Linghao Zhu , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

Recent releases such as o3 highlight human-like "thinking with images" reasoning that combines tool use with stepwise verification, yet most open-source approaches still rely on text-only chains, rigid visual schemas, or single-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qi Song , Honglin Li , Yingchen Yu , Haoyi Zhou , Lin Yang , Song Bai , Qi She , Zilong Huang , Yunqing Zhao

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have attracted much attention due to their exceptional performance. However, their performance mainly stems from thinking, a long Chain of Thought (CoT), which significantly increase computational overhead. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Siyuan Gan , Jiaheng Liu , Boyan Wang , Tianpei Yang , Runqing Miao , Yuyao Zhang , Fanyu Meng , Junlan Feng , Linjian Meng , Jing Huo , Yang Gao