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The role of reasoning in Audio Large Language Models remains widely underexplored, as introducing a reasoning process often degrades rather than improves performance during inference, a phenomenon we term test-time inverse scaling, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiajun Fan , Roger Ren , Jingyuan Li , Rahul Pandey , Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Ivan Bulyko , Ankur Gandhe , Ge Liu , Yile Gu

Free-text promptable 3D medical image segmentation offers an intuitive and clinically flexible interaction paradigm. However, current methods are highly sensitive to linguistic variability: minor changes in phrasing can cause substantial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Tongrui Zhang , Chenhui Wang , Yongming Li , Zhihao Chen , Xufeng Zhan , Hongming Shan

Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in general visual reasoning but remain underexplored in Abstract Visual Reasoning (AVR), which demands higher-order reasoning to identify abstract rules beyond simple perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yanbei Jiang , Yihao Ding , Chao Lei , Jiayang Ao , Jey Han Lau , Krista A. Ehinger

How should one judge whether a given large language model (LLM) can reliably perform economic reasoning? Most existing LLM benchmarks focus on specific applications and fail to present the model with a rich variety of economic tasks. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Narun Raman , Taylor Lundy , Thiago Amin , Jesse Perla , Kevin Leyton-Brown

In the rapidly evolving field of AI research, foundational models like BERT and GPT have significantly advanced language and vision tasks. The advent of pretrain-prompting models such as ChatGPT and Segmentation Anything Model (SAM) has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Saiyang Na , Yuzhi Guo , Feng Jiang , Hehuan Ma , Junzhou Huang

Human understanding of video dynamics relies on forming structured representations of entities, actions, and temporal relations before engaging in abstract reasoning. In contrast, existing Video-LLMs apply unstructured chain-of-thought…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zinuo Li , Yongxin Guo , Jun Liu , Jiawei Zhan , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Feng Zheng , Qiuhong Ke

Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

Language-guided segmentation transcends the scope limitations of traditional semantic segmentation, enabling models to segment arbitrary target regions based on natural language instructions. Existing approaches typically adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chao Hao , Jun Xu , Ji Du , Shuo Ye , Ziyue Qiao , Xiaodong Cun , Guangcong Wang , Xubin Zheng , Zitong Yu

Traditional methods for reasoning segmentation rely on supervised fine-tuning with categorical labels and simple descriptions, limiting its out-of-domain generalization and lacking explicit reasoning processes. To address these limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuqi Liu , Bohao Peng , Zhisheng Zhong , Zihao Yue , Fanbin Lu , Bei Yu , Jiaya Jia

We introduce CoreThink, a state-of-the-art Reasoning Layer built upon a novel reasoning method called General Symbolics. This approach diverges from reasoning paradigms such as test-time scaling, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Jay Vaghasiya , Omkar Ghugarkar , Vishvesh Bhat , Vipul Dholaria , Julian McAuley

Test-time scaling has emerged as an effective way to improve language models on challenging reasoning tasks. However, most existing methods treat each problem in isolation and do not systematically reuse knowledge from prior reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Di Wu , Devendra Singh Sachan , Wen-tau Yih , Mingda Chen

Powered by massive curated training data, Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated its impressive generalization capabilities in open-world scenarios with the guidance of prompts. However, the vanilla SAM is class agnostic and heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Duojun Huang , Xinyu Xiong , Jie Ma , Jichang Li , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Guanbin Li

Reasoning Segmentation (RS) aims to delineate objects based on implicit text queries, the interpretation of which requires reasoning and knowledge integration. Unlike the traditional formulation of segmentation problems that relies on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Fei Xiong , Jeong-O Jeong , Tianpeng Wang , Michael Latman , Mathias Unberath

Large vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress in visual reasoning, yet most existing systems rely on single-step or text-only reasoning, limiting their ability to iteratively refine understanding across multiple visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Wenfang Sun , Hao Chen , Yingjun Du , Yefeng Zheng , Cees G. M. Snoek

The development of high-resolution remote sensing satellites has provided great convenience for research work related to remote sensing. Segmentation and extraction of specific targets are essential tasks when facing the vast and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jie Zhang , Xubing Yang , Rui Jiang , Wei Shao , Li Zhang

The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant breakthrough in scaling segmentation models, delivering strong performance across various downstream applications in the RGB modality. However, directly applying SAM to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Chenyang Zhu , Bin Xiao , Lin Shi , Shoukun Xu , Xu Zheng

Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a principled way to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet its effectiveness hinges on training signals that remain informative as models evolve. In practice, RL progress often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Caijun Xu , Changyi Xiao , Zhongyuan Peng , Xinrun Wang , Yixin Cao

Semantic segmentation is a core task in computer vision. Existing methods are generally divided into two categories: automatic and interactive. Interactive approaches, exemplified by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown promise as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yimu Pan , Sitao Zhang , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , James Z. Wang

Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating fluent text, but their internal reasoning remains opaque and difficult to control. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) make hidden activations more interpretable by exposing latent features that often…

As comprehensive large model evaluation becomes prohibitively expensive, predicting model performance from limited observations has become essential. However, existing statistical methods struggle with pattern shifts, data sparsity, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiaoxiao Wang , Chunxiao Li , Junying Wang , Yijin Guo , Zijian Chen , Chunyi Li , Xiaohong Liu , Zicheng Zhang , Guangtao Zhai