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While Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in textual reasoning, they struggle with mathematical domains like geometry that intrinsically rely on visual aids. Existing approaches to Visual Chain-of-Thought (VCoT) are often limited by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Weikang Shi , Aldrich Yu , Rongyao Fang , Houxing Ren , Ke Wang , Aojun Zhou , Changyao Tian , Xinyu Fu , Yuxuan Hu , Zimu Lu , Linjiang Huang , Si Liu , Rui Liu , Hongsheng Li

Due to the proliferation of short-form content and the rapid adoption of AI, opportunities for deep, reflective thinking have significantly diminished, undermining users' critical thinking and reducing engagement with the reasoning behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Seunghyun Yoo

Recently, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly enhanced the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still struggle with multi-step reasoning tasks due to limited multimodal reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yuliang Zhan , Xinyu Tang , Han Wan , Jian Li , Ji-Rong Wen , Hao Sun

Text-to-image person retrieval aims to identify the target person based on a given textual description query. The primary challenge is to learn the mapping of visual and textual modalities into a common latent space. Prior works have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Ding Jiang , Mang Ye

Unified multi-modal understanding/generative models have shown improved image editing performance by incorporating fine-grained understanding into their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) process. However, a critical question remains underexplored:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shiyi Zhang , Yiji Cheng , Tiankai Hang , Zijin Yin , Runze He , Yu Xu , Wenxun Dai , Yunlong Lin , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Yansong Tang

Large reasoning models (LRMs) increasingly rely on step-by-step Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to improve task performance, particularly in high-resource languages such as English. While recent work has examined final-answer accuracy in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Raoyuan Zhao , Yihong Liu , Hinrich Schütze , Michael A. Hedderich

Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled instruction-based image editing, allowing users to modify visual content via natural language descriptions. However, existing approaches often struggle with high-level semantic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Minheng Ni , Yutao Fan , Zhengyuan Yang , Yeli Shen , Yuxiang Wei , Yaowen Zhang , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Current instruction-based editing methods, such as InstructPix2Pix, often fail to produce satisfactory results in complex scenarios due to their dependence on the simple CLIP text encoder in diffusion models. To rectify this, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yuzhou Huang , Liangbin Xie , Xintao Wang , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaodong Cun , Yixiao Ge , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong , Rui Huang , Ruimao Zhang , Ying Shan

Large Multi-modality Models (LMMs) have made significant progress in visual understanding and generation, but they still face challenges in General Visual Editing, particularly in following complex instructions, preserving appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xiangyu Zhao , Peiyuan Zhang , Kexian Tang , Xiaorong Zhu , Hao Li , Wenhao Chai , Zicheng Zhang , Renqiu Xia , Guangtao Zhai , Junchi Yan , Hua Yang , Xue Yang , Haodong Duan

In this paper, we propose Conceptual Codebook Learning (CoCoLe), a novel fine-tuning method for vision-language models (VLMs) to address the challenge of improving the generalization capability of VLMs while fine-tuning them on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yi Zhang , Ke Yu , Siqi Wu , Zhihai He

While image generation techniques are now capable of producing high-quality images that respect prompts which span multiple sentences, the task of text-guided image editing remains a challenge. Even edit requests that consist of only a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Saba Ahmadi , Rabiul Awal , Ankur Sikarwar , Amirhossein Kazemnejad , Ge Ya Luo , Juan A. Rodriguez , Sai Rajeswar , Siva Reddy , Christopher Pal , Benno Krojer , Aishwarya Agrawal

Recent advances in vision language models (VLMs) offer reasoning capabilities, yet how these unfold and integrate visual and textual information remains unclear. We analyze reasoning dynamics in 18 VLMs covering instruction-tuned and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Danae Sánchez Villegas , Samuel Lewis-Lim , Nikolaos Aletras , Desmond Elliott

Instruction-guided image editing offers an intuitive way for users to edit images with natural language. However, diffusion-based editing models often struggle to accurately interpret complex user instructions, especially those involving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Ziyun Zeng , Hang Hua , Jiebo Luo

Recent advances in multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) and chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning have led to significant progress in image and text generation tasks. However, the field of 3D human pose generation still faces critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Junuk Cha , Jihyeon Kim

Understanding 3D point clouds through language remains a fundamental challenge in computer graphics and visual computing, due to the irregular structure of point cloud data and the lack of explicit reasoning in existing 3D multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chaoqi Chen , Qile Xu , Wenjun Zhou , Hui Huang

Stance detection on social media is challenging for Large Language Models (LLMs), as emerging slang and colloquial language in online conversations often contain deeply implicit stance labels. Chain-of-Thought (COT) prompting has recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Joseph Gatto , Omar Sharif , Sarah Masud Preum

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong general-purpose capabilities, yet still struggle on Fine-Grained Visual Classification (FGVC), a core perception task that requires subtle visual discrimination and is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jie Zhu , Yiyang Su , Xiaoming Liu

Recent advances in text-to-image personalization have enabled high-quality and controllable image synthesis for user-provided concepts. However, existing methods still struggle to balance identity preservation with text alignment. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Feize Wu , Yun Pang , Junyi Zhang , Lianyu Pang , Jian Yin , Baoquan Zhao , Qing Li , Xudong Mao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with complex image annotation tasks, such as emotion classification and context-driven object detection, which demand sophisticated reasoning. Standard Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) focuses solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Suhang Hu , Wei Hu , Yuhang Su , Fan Zhang

Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (MNER) and Multimodal Relation Extraction (MRE) necessitate the fundamental reasoning capacity for intricate linguistic and multimodal comprehension. In this study, we explore distilling the reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Feng Chen , Yujian Feng