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Recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in building reasoning models that articulate chains of thoughts prior to producing final answers. However, despite ongoing advances that aim at enabling…

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Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression text. This task simulates the common referential relationships…

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Embodied Chain-of-Thought (ECoT) reasoning enhances vision-language-action (VLA) models by improving performance and interpretability through intermediate reasoning steps. However, its sequential autoregressive token generation introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhekai Duan , Yuan Zhang , Shikai Geng , Gaowen Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

The chain-of-thought technique has been received well in multi-modal tasks. It is a step-by-step linear reasoning process that adjusts the length of the chain to improve the performance of generated prompts. However, human thought processes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Juncheng Yang , Zuchao Li , Shuai Xie , Wei Yu , Shijun Li , Bo Du

The In-context generation paradigm recently has demonstrated strong power in instructional image editing with both data efficiency and synthesis quality. Nevertheless, shaping such in-context learning for instruction-based video editing is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhongwei Zhang , Fuchen Long , Wei Li , Zhaofan Qiu , Wu Liu , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

The "thinking with images" paradigm represents a pivotal shift in the reasoning of Vision Language Models (VLMs), moving from text-dominant chain-of-thought to image-interactive reasoning. By invoking visual tools or generating intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chi Zhang , Haibo Qiu , Qiming Zhang , Zhixiong Zeng , Lin Ma , Jing Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities in text-based mathematical problem solving; however, when adapted to visual reasoning tasks, particularly geometric problem solving, their performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nannan Shi , Chuanyu Qin , Shipeng Song , Man Luo

Visual grounding tasks aim to localize image regions based on natural language references. In this work, we explore whether generative VLMs predominantly trained on image-text data could be leveraged to scale up the text annotation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shijie Wang , Dahun Kim , Ali Taalimi , Chen Sun , Weicheng Kuo

Instruction-based image editing aims to modify specific content within existing images according to user-provided instructions while preserving non-target regions. Beyond traditional object- and style-centric manipulation, text-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hui Zhang , Juntao Liu , Zongkai Liu , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Visual reasoning, the capability to interpret visual input in response to implicit text query through multi-step reasoning, remains a challenge for deep learning models due to the lack of relevant benchmarks. Previous work in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

Recent research has made significant progress in localizing and editing image regions based on text. However, most approaches treat these regions in isolation, relying solely on local cues without accounting for how each part contributes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Thuy Phuong Vu , Dinh-Cuong Hoang , Minhhuy Le , Phan Xuan Tan

Vision language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a variety of computer vision tasks. However, the multimodal reasoning capability has not been fully explored in existing models. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xintong Zhang , Zhi Gao , Bofei Zhang , Pengxiang Li , Xiaowen Zhang , Yang Liu , Tao Yuan , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia , Song-Chun Zhu , Qing Li

Various contextual information has been employed by many approaches for visual detection tasks. However, most of the existing approaches only focus on specific context for specific tasks. In this paper, GMC, a general framework is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xuan Wang , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought (I-MCoT) advances vision-language reasoning, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). This paradigm integrates specially selected visual evidence from the input image into the context of Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiping Li , Jianghong Ma

When thinking with images, humans rarely rely on a single glance: they revisit visual evidence while reasoning. In contrast, most Multimodal Language Models encode an image once to key-value cache and then reason purely in text, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiwan Chung , Junhyeok Kim , Siyeol Kim , Jaeyoung Lee , Min Soo Kim , Youngjae Yu

Despite their success, current training pipelines for reasoning VLMs focus on a limited range of tasks, such as mathematical and logical reasoning. As a result, these models face difficulties in generalizing their reasoning capabilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuheng Zha , Kun Zhou , Yujia Wu , Yushu Wang , Jie Feng , Zhi Xu , Shibo Hao , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Visual entity tracking is an innate cognitive ability in humans, yet it remains a critical bottleneck for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). This deficit is often obscured in existing video benchmarks by visual shortcuts. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tiedong Liu , Wee Sun Lee

Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates that Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning enables systematic solutions to complex understanding tasks. However, its extension to generation tasks remains nascent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Siyu Jiao , Yiheng Lin , Yujie Zhong , Qi She , Wei Zhou , Xiaohan Lan , Zilong Huang , Fei Yu , Yingchen Yu , Yunqing Zhao , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

In this paper, we investigate the semantic collapsing problem in generative personalization, an under-explored topic where the learned visual concept ($V$) gradually shifts from its original textual meaning and comes to dominate other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Trung Le , Junae Kim , Tamas Abraham , Rollin Omari , Amar Kaur , Dinh Phung

Reasoning segmentation is a challenging vision-language task that aims to output the segmentation mask with respect to a complex, implicit, and even non-visual query text. Previous works incorporated multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

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