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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging task that requires understanding complex visual and temporal relationships within videos to answer questions accurately. In this work, we introduce \textbf{ReasVQA} (Reasoning-enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jianxin Liang , Xiaojun Meng , Huishuai Zhang , Yueqian Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Dongyan Zhao

Recent advancements in Chain of Thought (COT) generation have significantly improved the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), with reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as an effective post-training approach. Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Rui Wang , Yixiao Ge , Lu Qiu , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models recently have achieve significant improvement in image generation capability, yet a large gap remains in instruction following and detail preservation compared to systems that tightly…

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently achieved remarkable success in eliciting visual reasoning within Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, existing approaches typically train separate models for different tasks and treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kaituo Feng , Manyuan Zhang , Hongyu Li , Kaixuan Fan , Shuang Chen , Yilei Jiang , Dian Zheng , Peiwen Sun , Yiyuan Zhang , Haoze Sun , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Xunliang Cai , Xiangyu Yue

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in complex visual tasks through the integration of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, in Video Question Answering, extended thinking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Xiaokun Sun , Yubo Wang , Haoyu Cao , Linli Xu

Recent advances in test-time optimization have led to remarkable reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling them to solve highly complex problems in math and coding. However, the reasoning capabilities of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ce Zhang , Yan-Bo Lin , Ziyang Wang , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

Humans construct internal world models and reason by manipulating the concepts within these models. Recent advances in AI, particularly chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, approximate such human cognitive abilities, where world models are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jialong Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Hongyi Yuan , Xiangcheng Zhang , Tianhao Huang , Changjing He , Chaoyi Deng , Renrui Zhang , Youbin Wu , Mingsheng Long

Reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad applicability across diverse downstream tasks. However, it remains unclear whether the superior performance of VLMs stems from genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yige Xu , Yongjie Wang , Zizhuo Wu , Kaisong Song , Jun Lin , Zhiqi Shen

Despite the prosperity of the video language model, the current pursuit of comprehensive video reasoning is thwarted by the inherent spatio-temporal incompleteness within individual videos, resulting in hallucinations and inaccuracies. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zhihao He , Tianyao He , Yun Xu , Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Chaofan Gan , Zuxuan Wu , Weiyao Lin

In this paper, we present our experimental study on generating plausible textual explanations for the outcomes of video summarization. For the needs of this study, we extend an existing framework for multigranular explanation of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Thomas Eleftheriadis , Evlampios Apostolidis , Vasileios Mezaris

Human intelligence requires correctness and robustness, with the former being foundational for the latter. In video understanding, correctness ensures the accurate interpretation of visual content, and robustness maintains consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yuanhan Zhang , Yunice Chew , Yuhao Dong , Aria Leo , Bo Hu , Ziwei Liu

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

Multi-modal language models (LM) have recently shown promising performance in high-level reasoning tasks on videos. However, existing methods still fall short in tasks like causal or compositional spatiotemporal reasoning over actions, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Sunny Panchal , Mingu Lee , Reza Pourreza , Pulkit Madan , Roland Memisevic

Multimodal reasoning requires iterative coordination between language and vision, yet it remains unclear what constitutes a meaningful interleaved chain of thought. We posit that text and image thoughts should function as complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiawei Gu , Yunzhuo Hao , Huichen Will Wang , Linjie Li , Michael Qizhe Shieh , Yejin Choi , Ranjay Krishna , Yu Cheng

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have shown promising capabilities in video comprehension, yet they struggle with tracking temporal changes and reasoning about temporal relationships. While previous research attributed this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Lei Li , Yuanxin Liu , Linli Yao , Peiyuan Zhang , Chenxin An , Lean Wang , Xu Sun , Lingpeng Kong , Qi Liu

While recent multimodal models have shown progress in vision-language tasks, small-scale variants still struggle with the fine-grained temporal reasoning required for video understanding. We introduce ReasonAct, a method that enhances video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaxin Liu , Zhaolu Kang

Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 L'ea Dubois , Klaus Schmidt , Chengyu Wang , Ji-Hoon Park , Lin Wang , Santiago Munoz

The rapid advancement in text-to-video (T2V) generative models has enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity video content guided by textual descriptions. Despite this significant progress, these models are often susceptible to hallucination,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhixuan Chu , Lei Zhang , Yichen Sun , Siqiao Xue , Zhibo Wang , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Humans excel at spatial-temporal reasoning, effortlessly interpreting dynamic visual events from an egocentric viewpoint. However, whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can similarly understand the 4D world remains uncertain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Peiran Wu , Yunze Liu , Miao Liu , Junxiao Shen

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in integrating visual perception with language understanding. However, effective multimodal reasoning requires both accurate perception and robust reasoning, and weakness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Sourabh Sharma , Sonam Gupta , Sadbhawna