English
Related papers

Related papers: From Pixels to Policies: Reinforcing Spatial Reaso…

200 papers

Procedural planning, which entails decomposing a high-level goal into a sequence of temporally ordered steps, is an important yet intricate task for machines. It involves integrating common-sense knowledge to reason about complex and often…

Recent advances in 3D scene-language understanding have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) for 3D reasoning by transferring their general reasoning ability to 3D multi-modal contexts. However, existing methods typically adopt standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yerim Jeon , Miso Lee , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

Large language models(LLMs), with their powerful language generation and reasoning capabilities, have already achieved notable success in many domains, e.g., math and code generation. However, they often fall short when tackling real-life…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jie Feng , Tianhui Liu , Yuwei Du , Siqi Guo , Yuming Lin , Yong Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding natural language but struggle with explicit commonsense reasoning. A recent trend of research suggests that the combination of LLM with robust symbolic reasoning systems can overcome this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Manuel Borroto , Katie Gallagher , Antonio Ielo , Irfan Kareem , Francesco Ricca , Alessandra Russo

Considering the challenges faced by large language models (LLMs) in logical reasoning and planning, prior efforts have sought to augment LLMs with access to external solvers. While progress has been made on simple reasoning problems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yu Zhang , Hui-Ling Zhen , Zehua Pei , Yingzhao Lian , Lihao Yin , Mingxuan Yuan , Bei Yu

Geometry problem solving (GPS) is a challenging mathematical reasoning task requiring multi-modal understanding, fusion, and reasoning. Existing neural solvers take GPS as a vision-language task but are short in the representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Zhong-Zhi Li , Ming-Liang Zhang , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

Spatial reasoning -- the ability to perceive and reason about relationships in space -- advances vision-language models (VLMs) from visual perception toward spatial semantic understanding. Existing approaches either revisit local image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weijian Ma , Shizhao Sun , Tianyu Yu , Ruiyu Wang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jiang Bian

This paper proposes LayoutLLM, a more flexible document analysis method for understanding imaged documents. Visually Rich Document Understanding tasks, such as document image classification and information extraction, have gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Masato Fujitake

Large language models (LLMs), when guided by explicit textual plans, can perform reliable step-by-step reasoning during problem-solving. However, generating accurate and effective textual plans remains challenging due to LLM hallucinations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Sijia Chen , Di Niu

This paper studies whether multimodal large language models (LLMs) can serve as inspectable spatial proposal modules for stress-aware topology optimization. IterSIMP-{\sigma} keeps the SIMP optimizer as a compliance-minimizing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Shaoliang Yang , Jun Wang , Yunsheng Wang

Visual-spatial understanding, the ability to infer object relationships and layouts from visual input, is fundamental to downstream tasks such as robotic navigation and embodied interaction. However, existing methods face spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Haoyu Zhang , Meng Liu , Zaijing Li , Haokun Wen , Weili Guan , Yaowei Wang , Liqiang Nie

Enabling robotic agents to perform complex long-horizon tasks has been a long-standing goal in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the potential shown by large language models (LLMs), their planning capabilities remain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guanqi Chen , Lei Yang , Ruixing Jia , Zhe Hu , Yizhou Chen , Wei Zhang , Wenping Wang , Jia Pan

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose perception and reasoning, but they still struggle with tasks that require spatial understanding of the 3D world. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhanpeng Luo , Ce Zhang , Silong Yong , Cunxi Dai , Qianwei Wang , Haoxi Ran , Guanya Shi , Katia Sycara , Yaqi Xie

Attaining a high degree of user controllability in visual generation often requires intricate, fine-grained inputs like layouts. However, such inputs impose a substantial burden on users when compared to simple text inputs. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Weixi Feng , Wanrong Zhu , Tsu-jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Xuehai He , Sugato Basu , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved 2D visual understanding, prompting interest in their application to complex 3D reasoning tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoyu Zhan , Wenxuan Huang , Hao Sun , Xinyu Fu , Changfeng Ma , Shaosheng Cao , Bohan Jia , Shaohui Lin , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

Open-domain semantic parsing remains a challenging task, as neural models often rely on heuristics and struggle to handle unseen concepts. In this paper, we investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) for this task and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xiao Zhang , Qianru Meng , Johan Bos

Despite recent advances on multi-modal models, 3D spatial reasoning remains a challenging task for state-of-the-art open-source and proprietary models. Recent studies explore data-driven approaches and achieve enhanced spatial reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wufei Ma , Yu-Cheng Chou , Qihao Liu , Xingrui Wang , Celso de Melo , Jianwen Xie , Alan Yuille

Despite advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for scene understanding, their performance on complex spatial reasoning tasks requiring mental simulation remains significantly limited. Current methods often rely on passive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Meng Cao , Xingyu Li , Xue Liu , Ian Reid , Xiaodan Liang

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

Layout generation is the keystone in achieving automated graphic design, requiring arranging the position and size of various multi-modal design elements in a visually pleasing and constraint-following manner. Previous approaches are either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tao Yang , Yingmin Luo , Zhongang Qi , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Chang Wen Chen