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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are gaining increasing popularity in both academia and industry due to their remarkable performance in various applications such as visual question answering, visual perception, understanding, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Jian Li , Weiheng Lu , Hao Fei , Meng Luo , Ming Dai , Min Xia , Yizhang Jin , Zhenye Gan , Ding Qi , Chaoyou Fu , Ying Tai , Wankou Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang

This paper explores the problem of commonsense level vision-knowledge conflict in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where visual information contradicts model's internal commonsense knowledge. To study this issue, we introduce an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaoyuan Liu , Wenxuan Wang , Youliang Yuan , Jen-tse Huang , Qiuzhi Liu , Pinjia He , Zhaopeng Tu

Cross-Video Reasoning (CVR) presents a significant challenge in video understanding, which requires simultaneous understanding of multiple videos to aggregate and compare information across groups of videos. Most existing video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jingyao Li , Jingyun Wang , Molin Tan , Haochen Wang , Cilin Yan , Likun Shi , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu

In this article, we investigate vision-language models (VLM) as reasoners. The ability to form abstractions underlies mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and other Math AI tasks. Several formalisms have been given to these underlying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Denisa Roberts , Lucas Roberts

Visual grounding, localizing objects from natural language descriptions, represents a critical bridge between language and vision understanding. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve impressive scores on existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Rang Li , Lei Li , Shuhuai Ren , Hao Tian , Shuhao Gu , Shicheng Li , Zihao Yue , Yudong Wang , Wenhan Ma , Zhe Yang , Jingyuan Ma , Zhifang Sui , Fuli Luo

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled a wide range of advanced vision-language applications, including fine-grained object recognition and contextual understanding. When querying specific regions or objects in an image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mingjie Xu , Jinpeng Chen , Yuzhi Zhao , Jason Chun Lok Li , Yue Qiu , Zekang Du , Mengyang Wu , Pingping Zhang , Kun Li , Hongzheng Yang , Wenao Ma , Jiaheng Wei , Qinbin Li , Kangcheng Liu , Wenqiang Lei

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved exceptional performance across diverse tasks, continually surpassing previous expectations regarding their capabilities. Nevertheless, their proficiency in perceiving emotions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daiqing Wu , Dongbao Yang , Sicheng Zhao , Can Ma , Yu Zhou

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

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become adept at recognizing objects, they often lack the intuitive, human-like understanding of the world's underlying physical and social principles. This high-level vision-grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Tianxiang Jiang , Sheng Xia , Yicheng Xu , Linquan Wu , Xiangyu Zeng , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao , Yi Wang

Geometry problem-solving (GPS), a challenging task requiring both visual comprehension and symbolic reasoning, effectively measures the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Humans exhibit strong reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Liangyu Xu , Yingxiu Zhao , Jingyun Wang , Yingyao Wang , Bu Pi , Chen Wang , Mingliang Zhang , Jihao Gu , Xiang Li , Xiaoyong Zhu , Jun Song , Bo Zheng

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising reasoning abilities, yet evaluating their performance in specialized domains remains challenging. STEM reasoning is a particularly valuable testbed because it provides highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jing Jin , Hao Liu , Yan Bai , Yihang Lou , Zhenke Wang , Tianrun Yuan , Juntong Chen , Yongkang Zhu , Fanhu Zeng , Xuanyu Zhu , Tao Feng , Yige Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit impressive problem-solving skills in many tasks and domains, but their ability in mathematical reasoning in visual contexts has not been systematically studied. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Pan Lu , Hritik Bansal , Tony Xia , Jiacheng Liu , Chunyuan Li , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Hao Cheng , Kai-Wei Chang , Michel Galley , Jianfeng Gao

Reward models play an essential role in training vision-language models (VLMs) by assessing output quality to enable aligning with human preferences. Despite their importance, the research community lacks comprehensive open benchmarks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Michihiro Yasunaga , Luke Zettlemoyer , Marjan Ghazvininejad

Question answering, asking, and assessment are three innate human traits crucial for understanding the world and acquiring knowledge. By enhancing these capabilities, humans can more effectively utilize data, leading to better comprehension…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Henry Hengyuan Zhao , Pan Zhou , Difei Gao , Zechen Bai , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal mathematical reasoning. Yet, how much visual information truly contributes to reasoning remains unclear. Existing benchmarks report strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuandong Wang , Yao Cui , Yuxin Zhao , Zhen Yang , Yangfu Zhu , Zhenzhou Shao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are changing how Blind and Low Vision (BLV) people access visual information. Unlike traditional visual interpretation tools that only provide descriptions, MLLM-enabled applications offer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela , Crescentia Jung , Sharon Y Lin , Ruiying Hu , Shiri Azenkot

The rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has enabled browsing agents to acquire and reason over multimodal information in the real world. But existing benchmarks suffer from two limitations: insufficient evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhengbo Zhang , Jinbo Su , Zhaowen Zhou , Changtao Miao , Yuhan Hong , Qimeng Wu , Yumeng Liu , Feier Wu , Yihe Tian , Yuhao Liang , Zitong Shan , Wanke Xia , Yi-Fan Zhang , Bo Zhang , Zhe Li , Shiming Xiang , Ying Yan

We present GLM-4.1V-Thinking, GLM-4.5V, and GLM-4.6V, a family of vision-language models (VLMs) designed to advance general-purpose multimodal understanding and reasoning. In this report, we share our key findings in the development of the…

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced human-AI interaction but struggle with cultural understanding, often misinterpreting symbols, gestures, and artifacts due to biases in predominantly Western-centric training data. In this paper,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Shudong Liu , Yiqiao Jin , Cheng Li , Derek F. Wong , Qingsong Wen , Lichao Sun , Haipeng Chen , Xing Xie , Jindong Wang

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial potential in video understanding. However, existing benchmarks fail to comprehensively evaluate synergistic reasoning capabilities across audio and…