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Reasoning about time is essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand the world. Previous works focus on solving specific tasks, primarily on time-sensitive question answering. While these methods have proven effective, they…

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Recent advancements in time series forecasting have explored augmenting models with text or vision modalities to improve accuracy. While text provides contextual understanding, it often lacks fine-grained temporal details. Conversely,…

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This study investigates the spatial reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting and reinforcement learning. We begin by evaluating the impact of different prompting strategies and find…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual understanding in recent years. Yet, they still lag behind human capabilities in specific visual tasks such as counting or relational reasoning. To understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zihan Weng , Lucas Gomez , Taylor Whittington Webb , Pouya Bashivan

Despite recent successes, LVLMs or Large Vision Language Models are prone to hallucinating details like objects and their properties or relations, limiting their real-world deployment. To address this and improve their robustness, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yassine Ouali , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly applied in real-world scenarios due to their outstanding understanding and reasoning capabilities. Although VLMs have already demonstrated impressive capabilities in common visual…

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Understanding and reasoning about spatial relationships is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. While Vision Language Models (VLM) have demonstrated remarkable performance in certain VQA benchmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Boyuan Chen , Zhuo Xu , Sean Kirmani , Brian Ichter , Danny Driess , Pete Florence , Dorsa Sadigh , Leonidas Guibas , Fei Xia

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capability in a wide range of tasks such as visual recognition, document parsing, and visual grounding. Nevertheless, recent work shows that while VLMs often manage to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chengxin Liu , Wonseok Choi , Chenshuang Zhang , Tae-Hyun Oh

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has significantly advanced the reasoning ability of vision-language models (VLMs). However, the inherent text-dominated nature of VLMs often leads to insufficient visual faithfulness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zengbin Wang , Feng Xiong , Liang Lin , Xuecai Hu , Yong Wang , Yanlin Wang , Man Zhang , Xiangxiang Chu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are becoming increasingly powerful, demonstrating strong performance on a variety of tasks that require both visual and textual understanding. Their strong generalisation abilities make them a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Nikos Theodoridis , Tim Brophy , Reenu Mohandas , Ganesh Sistu , Fiachra Collins , Anthony Scanlan , Ciaran Eising

The advent of Vision Language Models (VLM) has allowed researchers to investigate the visual understanding of a neural network using natural language. Beyond object classification and detection, VLMs are capable of visual comprehension and…

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Video large language models have achieved remarkable performance in tasks such as video question answering, however, their temporal understanding remains suboptimal. To address this limitation, we curate a dedicated instruction fine-tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yunxiao Wang , Meng Liu , Wenqi Liu , Xuemeng Song , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Guorui Zhou , Liqiang Nie

Reasoning about time is of fundamental importance. Many facts are time-dependent. For example, athletes change teams from time to time, and different government officials are elected periodically. Previous time-dependent question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Lidong Bing

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant strides in static image understanding but continue to face critical hurdles in spatiotemporal reasoning. A major bottleneck is "multi-image reasoning hallucination", where a massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiaoda Yang , Shuai Yang , Can Wang , Jingyang Xue , Menglan Tang , Checheng Yu , Xunzhe Zhou , Sashuai Zhou , Tao Jin , Lixin Yang , Xiangyu Yue , Zhou Zhao

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing "under" or "behind" relationships between only two objects, pose significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shiqi Chen , Tongyao Zhu , Ruochen Zhou , Jinghan Zhang , Siyang Gao , Juan Carlos Niebles , Mor Geva , Junxian He , Jiajun Wu , Manling Li

Time is an important feature in many applications involving events that occur synchronously and/or asynchronously. To effectively consume time information, recent studies have focused on designing new architectures. In this paper, we take…

Test-time scaling (TTS) methods have proven highly effective for LLMs, yet their application to vision-language models (VLMs) remains relatively underexplored. Existing VLM TTS methods largely require open-weight model access or expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kaihua Hou , Abhijith Varma Mudunuri , Jiaxing Qiu , Roxana Daneshjou , Thomas Hartvigsen , Ahmed Alaa

Language models (LMs) are trained on web text originating from many points in time and, in general, without any explicit temporal grounding. This work investigates the temporal chaos of pretrained LMs and explores various methods to align…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Bowen Zhao , Zander Brumbaugh , Yizhong Wang , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Noah A. Smith

The Arrow-of-Time (AoT) task, determining whether a video plays forward or backward by recognizing temporal irreversibility, is one humans solve with near-perfect accuracy, yet frontier Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) perform only…

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