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Visual understanding goes well beyond object recognition. With one glance at an image, we can effortlessly imagine the world beyond the pixels: for instance, we can infer people's actions, goals, and mental states. While this task is easy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Rowan Zellers , Yonatan Bisk , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

In the pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI), we tackle Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) tasks using a novel two-pronged approach. We employ the Decision Transformer in an imitation learning paradigm to model human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jaehyun Park , Jaegyun Im , Sanha Hwang , Mintaek Lim , Sabina Ualibekova , Sejin Kim , Sundong Kim

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress, yet their capacity for logical ``slow-thinking'' reasoning persists as a critical research frontier. Current inference scaling paradigms suffer from two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jinyi Liu , Yan Zheng , Rong Cheng , Qiyu Wu , Wei Guo , Fei Ni , Hebin Liang , Yifu Yuan , Hangyu Mao , Fuzheng Zhang , Jianye Hao

Reasoning is an essential component of human intelligence as it plays a fundamental role in our ability to think critically, support responsible decisions, and solve challenging problems. Traditionally, AI has addressed reasoning in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ken Satoh , Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Francesca Toni , Randy Goebel , Kostas Stathis

Visual reasoning, often interleaved with intermediate visual states, has emerged as a promising direction in the field. A straightforward approach is to directly generate images via unified models during reasoning, but this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ziyu Guo , Rain Liu , Xinyan Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng

Reasoning is an essential component of human intelligence in that it plays a fundamental role in our ability to think critically, support responsible decisions, and solve challenging problems. Traditionally, AI has addressed reasoning in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Ken Satoh , Francesca Toni , Randy Goebel , Kostas Stathis

Despite their broad applicability, transformer-based models still fall short in System~2 reasoning, lacking the generality and adaptivity needed for human--AI alignment. We examine weaknesses on ARC-AGI tasks, revealing gaps in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sejin Kim , Sundong Kim

Recent advances in visual reasoning have leveraged vision transformers to tackle the ARC-AGI benchmark. However, we argue that the feed-forward architecture, where computational depth is strictly bound to parameter size, falls short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wen-Jie Shu , Xuerui Qiu , Rui-Jie Zhu , Harold Haodong Chen , Yexin Liu , Harry Yang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated growing interest in their structured reasoning capabilities, particularly in tasks involving abstraction and pattern recognition. The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Nikhil Khandalkar , Pavan Yadav , Krishna Shinde , Lokesh B. Ramegowda , Rajarshi Das

Machine learning models have achieved significant milestones in various domains, for example, computer vision models have an exceptional result in object recognition, and in natural language processing, where Large Language Models (LLM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Bo Song , Yuanhao Xu , Yichao Wu

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a general artificial intelligence benchmark that is currently unsolvable by any Machine Learning method, including Large Language Models (LLMs). It demands strong generalization and reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Filipe Marinho Rocha , Inês Dutra , Vítor Santos Costa

Reasoning, the process of devising and executing complex goal-oriented action sequences, remains a critical challenge in AI. Current large language models (LLMs) primarily employ Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques, which suffer from brittle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guan Wang , Jin Li , Yuhao Sun , Xing Chen , Changling Liu , Yue Wu , Meng Lu , Sen Song , Yasin Abbasi Yadkori

Latent visual reasoning aims to mimic human's imagination process by meditating through hidden states of Multimodal Large Language Models. While recognized as a promising paradigm for visual reasoning, the underlying mechanisms driving its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 You Li , Chi Chen , Yanghao Li , Fanhu Zeng , Kaiyu Huang , Jinan Xu , Maosong Sun

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) aims at benchmarking the performance of general artificial intelligence algorithms. The ARC's focus on broad generalization and few-shot learning has made it difficult to solve using pure machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yudong Xu , Elias B. Khalil , Scott Sanner

Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities in closed-world settings, they struggle in open-ended and…

Large visual language models (VLMs) have shown strong multi-modal medical reasoning ability, but most operate as end-to-end black boxes, diverging from clinicians' evidence-based, staged workflows and hindering clinical accountability.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yuexi Du , Jinglu Wang , Shujie Liu , Nicha C. Dvornek , Yan Lu

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

Conceptual abstraction and analogy-making are key abilities underlying humans' abilities to learn, reason, and robustly adapt their knowledge to new domains. Despite of a long history of research on constructing AI systems with these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Melanie Mitchell

Analogical reasoning derives information from known relations and generalizes this information to similar yet unfamiliar situations. One of the first generalized ways in which deep learning models were able to solve verbal analogies was…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Luca H. Thoms , Karel A. Veldkamp , Hannes Rosenbusch , Claire E. Stevenson

A core component of human intelligence is the ability to identify abstract patterns inherent in complex, high-dimensional perceptual data, as exemplified by visual reasoning tasks such as Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM). Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Taylor Webb , Jonathan D. Cohen