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Mathematical reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, and whether large language models (LLMs) can meaningfully perform it remains a central question in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. As LLMs are increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Linyang He , Qiyao Yu , Hanze Dong , Baohao Liao , Xinxing Xu , Micah Goldblum , Jiang Bian , Nima Mesgarani

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked the potential for enhanced 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning. A recent line of work explores learning spatial reasoning directly from multi-view images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kanghee Lee , Injae Lee , Minseok Kwak , Jungi Hong , Kwonyoung Ryu , Jaesik Park

Spatial intelligence is essential for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) operating in the complex physical world. Existing benchmarks, however, probe only single-image relations and thus fail to assess the multi-image spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sihan Yang , Runsen Xu , Yiman Xie , Sizhe Yang , Mo Li , Jingli Lin , Chenming Zhu , Xiaochen Chen , Haodong Duan , Xiangyu Yue , Dahua Lin , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

Building robots that can perceive, reason, and act in dynamic, unstructured environments remains a core challenge. Recent embodied systems often adopt a dual-system paradigm, where System 2 handles high-level reasoning while System 1…

3D scene understanding has been transformed by open-vocabulary language models that enable interaction via natural language. However, at present the evaluation of these representations is limited to datasets with closed-set semantics that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Christina Kassab , Sacha Morin , Martin Büchner , Matías Mattamala , Kumaraditya Gupta , Abhinav Valada , Liam Paull , Maurice Fallon

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) generates natural language descriptions that precisely identify differences between two images, serving as a key benchmark for fine-grained change perception, cross-modal reasoning, and image editing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuancheng Wei , Haojie Zhang , Linli Yao , Lei Li , Jiali Chen , Tao Huang , Yiting Lu , Duojun Huang , Xin Li , Zhao Zhong

Adaptive multimodal reasoning has emerged as a promising frontier in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), aiming to dynamically modulate between tool-augmented visual reasoning and text reasoning to enhance both effectiveness and efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xintong Zhang , Xiaowen Zhang , Jingrong Wu , Zhi Gao , Shilin Yan , Zhenxin Diao , Kunpeng Gao , Xuanyan Chen , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia , Qing Li

Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have enabled remarkable image understanding and generation capabilities. However, while models like Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image show emerging abilities to reason over multiple related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingrui Wu , Hang Liu , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

The ability to compare objects, scenes, or situations is crucial for effective decision-making and problem-solving in everyday life. For instance, comparing the freshness of apples enables better choices during grocery shopping while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jihyung Kil , Zheda Mai , Justin Lee , Zihe Wang , Kerrie Cheng , Lemeng Wang , Ye Liu , Arpita Chowdhury , Wei-Lun Chao

Recent advances in visual-language models (VLMs) have led to significant improvements in a plethora of complex multimodal tasks like image captioning, report generation, and visual perception. However, generating text from meteorological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Timothy B. Higgins , Antonios Mamalakis , Chirag Agarwal

We present a benchmark targeting a novel class of systems: semantic query processing engines. Those systems rely inherently on generative and reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs). They extend SQL with…

We present VRBench, the first long narrative video benchmark crafted for evaluating large models' multi-step reasoning capabilities, addressing limitations in existing evaluations that overlook temporal reasoning and procedural validity. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jiashuo Yu , Yue Wu , Meng Chu , Zhifei Ren , Zizheng Huang , Pei Chu , Ruijie Zhang , Yinan He , Qirui Li , Songze Li , Zhenxiang Li , Zhongying Tu , Conghui He , Yu Qiao , Yali Wang , Yi Wang , Limin Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly generate indoor scenes through intermediate structures such as layouts and scene graphs, yet evaluation still relies on LLM or VLM judges that score rendered views,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kathakoli Sengupta , Kai Ao , Paola Cascante-Bonilla

Current evaluation paradigms for large language models (LLMs) represent a critical blind spot in AI research--relying on opaque numerical metrics that conceal fundamental limitations in spatial reasoning while providing no intuitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Liuhao Lin , Ke Li , Zihan Xu , Yuchen Shi , Yulei Qin , Yan Zhang , Xing Sun , Rongrong Ji

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive generalization across multimodal tasks, yet most evaluation benchmarks remain Western-centric, leaving open questions about their performance in culturally diverse and multilingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Ali Faraz , Akash , Shaharukh Khan , Raja Kolla , Akshat Patidar , Suranjan Goswami , Abhinav Ravi , Chandra Khatri , Shubham Agarwal

Prompt-driven scene synthesis allows users to generate complete 3D environments from textual descriptions. Current text-to-scene methods often struggle with complex geometries and object transformations, and tend to show weak adherence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Frédéric Berdoz , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Nick Tuninga , Roger Wattenhofer

While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary vision-language understanding capabilities, their abilities to solve instance-level visual-language problems beyond a single image warrant further exploration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yunqiu Xu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Procedural generation techniques in 3D rendering engines have revolutionized the creation of complex environments, reducing reliance on manual design. Recent approaches using Large Language Models (LLMs) for 3D scene generation show promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arafa Yoncalik , Wouter Jansen , Nico Huebel , Mohammad Hasan Rahmani , Jan Steckel

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in semantic tasks, they frequently lack the "spatial sense" essential for sophisticated geometric reasoning. Current models typically suffer from exorbitant modality-alignment costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Zhang , Youya Xia , Yong Wang , Meng Song , Xin Wu , Wenjun Wan , Bingbing Liu , AiXue Ye , Hongbo Zhang , Feng Wen