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Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in many reasoning benchmarks. However, recent studies have pointed to memorization, rather than generalization, as one of the leading causes for such performance. LLMs, in fact, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xingwei Tan , Marco Valentino , Mahmud Akhter , Maria Liakata , Nikolaos Aletras

Reasoning language models have shown an uncanny ability to improve performance at test-time by ``thinking longer''-that is, by generating longer chain-of-thought sequences and hence using more compute. However, the length of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Pranjal Aggarwal , Sean Welleck

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant strides in 2D visual understanding tasks, sparking interest in extending these capabilities to 3D scene understanding. However, current 3D VLMs often struggle with robust reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Ting Huang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning depends on the correct ordering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhiyang Xu , Tian Qin , Bowen Jin , Zhengfeng Lai , Meng Cao , Lifu Huang , Peng Zhang

The deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in safety-critical domains like autonomous driving (AD) is critically hindered by reliability failures, most notably object hallucination. This failure stems from their reliance on ungrounded,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zhenguo Zhang , Haohan Zheng , Yishen Wang , Le Xu , Tianchen Deng , Xuefeng Chen , Qu Chen , Bo Zhang , Wuxiong Huang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities but often struggle with complex, multi-step mathematical reasoning, where minor errors in visual perception or logical deduction can lead to complete failure.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jianghangfan Zhang , Yibo Yan , Kening Zheng , Xin Zou , Song Dai , Xuming Hu

This paper introduces TempSamp-R1, a new reinforcement fine-tuning framework designed to improve the effectiveness of adapting multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to video temporal grounding tasks. We reveal that existing reinforcement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yunheng Li , Jing Cheng , Shaoyong Jia , Hangyi Kuang , Shaohui Jiao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Recent advancements in Chain of Thought (COT) generation have significantly improved the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), with reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as an effective post-training approach. Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yi Chen , Yuying Ge , Rui Wang , Yixiao Ge , Lu Qiu , Ying Shan , Xihui Liu

Recent work on enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) has introduced explicit length control as a means of constraining computational cost while preserving accuracy. However, existing approaches rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Kumail Alhamoud , Abed Hammoud , Elie Bou-Zeid , Marzyeh Ghassemi , Bernard Ghanem

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has significantly advanced the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), particularly in their mathemat ical reasoning performance. However, GRPO and related entropy regularization methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xingyu Lin , Yilin Wen , Du Su , Jinchang Hou , En Wang , Wenbin Liu , Chenfu Bao , Zhonghou Lv

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to unify perception, language understanding, and action generation, offering strong cross-task and cross-scene generalization with broad impact on embodied AI. However, current VLA models often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Angen Ye , Zeyu Zhang , Boyuan Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Dapeng Zhang , Zheng Zhu

Recent studies have demonstrated that Reinforcement Learning (RL), notably Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), can intrinsically elicit and enhance the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xinyu Tian , Shu Zou , Zhaoyuan Yang , Mengqi He , Peter Tu , Jing Zhang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities by integrating visual perception with language understanding, enabling applications such as image-grounded dialogue, visual question answering, and scientific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Tianyi Bai , Zengjie Hu , Fupeng Sun , Jiantao Qiu , Yizhen Jiang , Guangxin He , Bohan Zeng , Conghui He , Binhang Yuan , Wentao Zhang

Recent studies increasingly explore Large Language Models (LLMs) as a new paradigm for recommendation systems due to their scalability and world knowledge. However, existing work has three key limitations: (1) most efforts focus on…

Multimodal Reward Models (MRMs) play a crucial role in enhancing the performance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While recent advancements have primarily focused on improving the model structure and training data of MRMs, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yi-Fan Zhang , Xingyu Lu , Xiao Hu , Chaoyou Fu , Bin Wen , Tianke Zhang , Changyi Liu , Kaiyu Jiang , Kaibing Chen , Kaiyu Tang , Haojie Ding , Jiankang Chen , Fan Yang , Zhang Zhang , Tingting Gao , Liang Wang

Following the success of Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in foundation LLMs, an increasing number of works have sought to adapt GRPO to Visual Large Language Models (VLLMs) for visual perception tasks (e.g., detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Haoxiang Sun , Tao Wang , Chenwei Tang , Li Yuan , Jiancheng Lv

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the field of surgical scene understanding, particularly in the task of Visual Question Localized-Answering in robotic surgery (Surgical-VQLA). However, existing Surgical-VQLA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Pengfei Hao , Shuaibo Li , Hongqiu Wang , Zhizhuo Kou , Junhang Zhang , Guang Yang , Lei Zhu

While multimodal large language models excel at tasks that integrate visual perception with symbolic reasoning, their performance is often undermined by a critical vulnerability: perception-induced errors that propagate through the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Songjun Tu , Qichao Zhang , Jingbo Sun , Yuqian Fu , Linjing Li , Xiangyuan Lan , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Dongbin Zhao

Learning general-purpose reasoning capabilities has long been a challenging problem in AI. Recent research in large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, has shown that reinforcement learning techniques like GRPO can enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiaer Xia , Yuhang Zang , Peng Gao , Sharon Li , Kaiyang Zhou

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), most existing methods in multimodal reasoning neglect the critical role of visual perception within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Siyuan Huang , Xiaoye Qu , Yafu Li , Yun Luo , Zefeng He , Daizong Liu , Yu Cheng