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Video generative models show emerging reasoning behaviors. It is essential to ensure that generated events remain causally consistent across frames for reliable deployment, a property we define as reasoning coherence. To bridge the gap in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yu Qi , Xinyi Xu , Ziyu Guo , Siyuan Ma , Renrui Zhang , Xinyan Chen , Ruichuan An , Ruofan Xing , Jiayi Zhang , Haojie Huang , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jonathan Tremblay , Lawson L. S. Wong

Recent progress in generative video models, such as Veo-3, has shown surprising zero-shot reasoning abilities, creating a growing need for systematic and reliable evaluation. We introduce V-ReasonBench, a benchmark designed to assess video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yang Luo , Xuanlei Zhao , Baijiong Lin , Lingting Zhu , Liyao Tang , Yuqi Liu , Ying-Cong Chen , Shengju Qian , Xin Wang , Yang You

Video Models have achieved remarkable success in high-fidelity video generation with coherent motion dynamics. Analogous to the development from text generation to text-based reasoning in language modeling, the development of video models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Cheng Yang , Haiyuan Wan , Yiran Peng , Xin Cheng , Zhaoyang Yu , Jiayi Zhang , Junchi Yu , Xinlei Yu , Xiawu Zheng , Dongzhan Zhou , Chenglin Wu

The remarkable zero-shot capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have propelled natural language processing from task-specific models to unified, generalist foundation models. This transformation emerged from simple primitives: large,…

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables sophisticated symbolic reasoning in LLMs, it remains confined to discrete text and cannot simulate the continuous, physics-governed dynamics of the real world. Recent video generation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xinxin Liu , Zhaopan Xu , Ming Li , Kai Wang , Yong Jae Lee , Yuzhang Shang

Vision-Language Models have excelled at textual reasoning, but they often struggle with fine-grained spatial understanding and continuous action planning, failing to simulate the dynamics required for complex visual reasoning. In this work,…

Recent advances in video generation have enabled the synthesis of videos with strong temporal consistency and impressive visual quality, marking a crucial step toward vision foundation models. To evaluate these video generation models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xuming He , Zehao Fan , Hengjia Li , Fan Zhuo , Hankun Xu , Senlin Cheng , Di Weng , Haifeng Liu , Can Ye , Boxi Wu

The rapid evolution of video generative models has shifted their focus from producing visually plausible outputs to tackling tasks requiring physical plausibility and logical consistency. However, despite recent breakthroughs such as Veo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Harold Haodong Chen , Disen Lan , Wen-Jie Shu , Qingyang Liu , Zihan Wang , Sirui Chen , Wenkai Cheng , Kanghao Chen , Hongfei Zhang , Zixin Zhang , Rongjin Guo , Yu Cheng , Ying-Cong Chen

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced video understanding, yet most still "think about videos" ie once a video is encoded, reasoning unfolds entirely in text, treating visual input as a static context. This passive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hanoona Rasheed , Mohammed Zumri , Muhammad Maaz , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

Despite remarkable progress toward general-purpose video models, a critical question remains unanswered: how far are these models from achieving true multimodal reasoning? Existing benchmarks fail to address this question rigorously, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xiaotian Zhang , Jianhui Wei , Yuan Wang , Jie Tan , Yichen Li , Yan Zhang , Ziyi Chen , Daoan Zhang , Dezhi YU , Wei Xu , Songtao Jiang , Zuozhu Liu

Recent video generation models have revealed the emergence of Chain-of-Frame (CoF) reasoning, enabling frame-by-frame visual inference. With this capability, video models have been successfully applied to various visual tasks (e.g., maze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chengzhuo Tong , Mingkun Chang , Shenglong Zhang , Yuran Wang , Cheng Liang , Zhizheng Zhao , Ruichuan An , Bohan Zeng , Yang Shi , Yifan Dai , Ziming Zhao , Guanbin Li , Pengfei Wan , Yuanxing Zhang , Wentao Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive zero- and few-shot performance on real-world visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks, alluding to their capabilities as visual reasoning engines. However, the benchmarks being used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Aishik Nagar , Shantanu Jaiswal , Cheston Tan

The ability to perform Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning marks a major milestone for multimodal models (MMs), enabling them to solve complex visual reasoning problems. Yet a critical question remains: is such reasoning genuinely grounded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Xiaoyang Guo , Sidi Liu , Qinhan Lv , Ruiqi Chen , Jing Yang , Yijia Fan , Xiaofei Sun , Jian Wang , Ziliang Chen , Liang Lin , Keze Wang

The sequential structure of videos poses a challenge to the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to locate multi-frame evidence and conduct multimodal reasoning. However, existing video benchmarks mainly focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Kejian Zhu , Zhuoran Jin , Hongbang Yuan , Jiachun Li , Shangqing Tu , Pengfei Cao , Yubo Chen , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities. Prior work attributes this to a Chain-of-Frames (CoF) mechanism, where reasoning is assumed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruisi Wang , Zhongang Cai , Fanyi Pu , Junxiang Xu , Wanqi Yin , Maijunxian Wang , Ran Ji , Chenyang Gu , Bo Li , Ziqi Huang , Hokin Deng , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu , Lei Yang

Existing video editing methods face a critical trade-off: expert models offer precision but rely on task-specific priors like masks, hindering unification; conversely, unified temporal in-context learning models are mask-free but lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiangpeng Yang , Ji Xie , Yiyuan Yang , Yue Ma , Yan Huang , Min Xu , Qiang Wu

Recent breakthroughs in video generation have demonstrated an emerging capability termed Chain-of-Frames (CoF) reasoning, where models resolve complex tasks through the generation of continuous frames. While these models show promise for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifan Li , Yukai Gu , Yingqian Min , Zikang Liu , Yifan Du , Kun Zhou , Min Yang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Minghui Qiu

While generative video models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, their capacity to internalize and reason over implicit world rules remains a critical yet under-explored frontier. To bridge this gap, we present RISE-Video, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mingxin Liu , Shuran Ma , Shibei Meng , Xiangyu Zhao , Zicheng Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Zhihang Zhong , Peixian Chen , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Haodong Duan , Xue Yang

Large-scale video diffusion models show strong world simulation and temporal reasoning abilities, but their use as zero-shot image editors remains underexplored. We introduce IF-Edit, a tuning-free framework that repurposes pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zechuan Zhang , Zhenyuan Chen , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been highly successful in solving complex tasks in natural language processing, and recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended this paradigm to video reasoning. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang
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