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Visual reasoning is critical for a wide range of computer vision tasks that go beyond surface-level object detection and classification. Despite notable advances in relational, symbolic, temporal, causal, and commonsense reasoning, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayushman Sarkar , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Zhenyu Yu

Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning ability by generating long chain-of-thought (CoT) responses. However, CoT reasoning in multimodal contexts is highly vulnerable to visual hallucination…

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Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) promise to ground language instructions in robot control, yet in practice often fail to faithfully follow language. When presented with instructions that lack strong scene-specific supervision, VLAs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yu Fang , Yuchun Feng , Dong Jing , Jiaqi Liu , Yue Yang , Zhenyu Wei , Daniel Szafir , Mingyu Ding

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for eliciting reasoning chains before generating final answers. However, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) generate reasoning that lacks integration of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Omar Sharif , Eftekhar Hossain , Patrick Ng

Vision-language models achieve strong performance across a wide range of multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, yet their multi-step reasoning remains unstable. Repeated sampling over the same input often produces divergent reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chaoyu Li , Deeparghya Dutta Barua , Fei Tao , Pooyan Fazli

While Reinforcement Learning (RL) shows promise in training tool-use Large Language Models (LLMs) using verifiable outcome rewards, existing methods largely overlook the potential of reasoning rewards based on chain-of-thought quality for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zihan Lin , Xiaohan Wang , Hexiong Yang , Jiajun Chai , Jie Cao , Guojun Yin , Wei Lin , Ran He

In medical visual question answering (Med-VQA), achieving accurate responses relies on three critical steps: precise perception of medical imaging data, logical reasoning grounded in visual input and textual questions, and coherent answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Songtao Jiang , Yuan Wang , Ruizhe Chen , Yan Zhang , Ruilin Luo , Bohan Lei , Sibo Song , Yang Feng , Jimeng Sun , Jian Wu , Zuozhu Liu

Agentic AI coding systems can inspect repositories, plan implementation steps, edit files, call tools, run tests, and submit pull requests. These capabilities make software and hardware development faster in some settings, but current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Christopher Koch

While vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks combining textual and visual information, they continue to struggle with fine-grained visual perception tasks that require detailed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhehao Zhang , Ryan Rossi , Tong Yu , Franck Dernoncourt , Ruiyi Zhang , Jiuxiang Gu , Sungchul Kim , Xiang Chen , Zichao Wang , Nedim Lipka

Audio and omni-modal large language models exhibit impressive cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, applying standard reinforcement learning post-training algorithms to these models exposes a critical structural vulnerability:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Cihan Xiao , Yiwen Shao , Chenxing Li , Xiang He , Zhenwen Liang , Steve Yves , Sanjeev Khudanpur , Liefeng Bo

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved notable gains in various tasks by incorporating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning in language spaces. Recent work extends this direction by leveraging external tools for visual editing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bangzheng Li , Ximeng Sun , Jiang Liu , Ze Wang , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Hao Chen , Emad Barsoum , Muhao Chen , Zicheng Liu

"Thinking with images" has emerged as an effective paradigm for advancing visual reasoning, extending beyond text-only chains of thought by injecting visual evidence into intermediate reasoning steps. However, existing methods fall short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Qixun Wang , Yang Shi , Yifei Wang , Yuanxing Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Xianghua Ying , Yisen Wang

The advent of agentic multimodal models has empowered systems to actively interact with external environments. However, current agents suffer from a profound meta-cognitive deficit: they struggle to arbitrate between leveraging internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Shilin Yan , Jintao Tong , Hongwei Xue , Xiaojun Tang , Yangyang Wang , Kunyu Shi , Guannan Zhang , Ruixuan Li , Yixiong Zou

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

Achieving human-level intelligence requires refining cognitive distinctions between System 1 and System 2 thinking. While contemporary AI, driven by large language models, demonstrates human-like traits, it falls short of genuine cognition.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Guangyan Sun , Mingyu Jin , Zhenting Wang , Cheng-Long Wang , Siqi Ma , Qifan Wang , Tong Geng , Ying Nian Wu , Yongfeng Zhang , Dongfang Liu

We present a Collaborative Agent-Based Framework for Multi-Image Reasoning. Our approach tackles the challenge of interleaved multimodal reasoning across diverse datasets and task formats by employing a dual-agent system: a language-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Angelos Vlachos , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Nikolaos Spanos , Ilias Mitsouras , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

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

Existing methods for visual reasoning attempt to directly map inputs to outputs using black-box architectures without explicitly modeling the underlying reasoning processes. As a result, these black-box models often learn to exploit biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Justin Johnson , Bharath Hariharan , Laurens van der Maaten , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Ross Girshick

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reasoning on text and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are highly effective for visual perception, applying those models for visual instruction-based planning remains a widely open problem. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Mohamed Salim Aissi , Clemence Grislain , Mohamed Chetouani , Olivier Sigaud , Laure Soulier , Nicolas Thome

Recent advances in large language models elicit reasoning in a chain-of-thought that allows models to decompose problems in a human-like fashion. Though this paradigm improves multi-step reasoning ability in language models, it is limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Daniel Rose , Vaishnavi Himakunthala , Andy Ouyang , Ryan He , Alex Mei , Yujie Lu , Michael Saxon , Chinmay Sonar , Diba Mirza , William Yang Wang