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Geometric ability is a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) due to the need for advanced spatial comprehension and abstract thinking. Existing datasets primarily evaluate LLMs on their final answers, but they cannot truly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xiaofeng Wang , Yiming Wang , Wenhong Zhu , Rui Wang

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) develop patch embedding and convolution backbone within vector space, especially Euclidean ones, at the very founding. When expanding VLMs to a galaxy scale for understanding astronomical phenomena, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tianyu Chen , Xingcheng Fu , Yisen Gao , Haodong Qian , Yuecen Wei , Kun Yan , Haoyi Zhou , Jianxin Li

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in earth observation (EO), yet they struggle with tasks that require grounding complex spatial reasoning in precise pixel-level visual representations. To address this problem, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yan Shu , Bin Ren , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Begüm Demir , Nicu Sebe , Paolo Rota

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in spatial reasoning, yet they remain fundamentally limited to qualitative precision and lack the computational precision required for real-world robotics. Current approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yi Han , Enshen Zhou , Shanyu Rong , Jingkun An , Pengwei Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Cheng Chi , Lu Sheng , Shanghang Zhang

The spatial reasoning task aims to reason about the spatial relationships in 2D and 3D space, which is a fundamental capability for Visual Question Answering (VQA) and robotics. Although vision language models (VLMs) have developed rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xun Liang , Xin Guo , Zhongming Jin , Weihang Pan , Penghui Shang , Deng Cai , Binbin Lin , Jieping Ye

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) have made remarkable progress on various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However, most methods rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Zhihang Zhong , Xue Yang

Achieving human-like reasoning in deep learning models for complex tasks in unknown environments remains a critical challenge in embodied intelligence. While advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in static scene understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinzhou Tang , Jusheng zhang , Sidi Liu , Waikit Xiu , Qinhan Lv , Xiying Li

The ability to understand and reason about spatial relationships between objects in images is an important component of visual reasoning. This skill rests on the ability to recognize and localize objects of interest and determine their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

Spatial intelligence requires visual representations that capture both semantic objects and geometric structure in the physical world. To support this, two major pre-training schemes are now widely used as foundation backbones:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Kangjia Zhao , Jianwei Yin

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress but continue to struggle with geometric reasoning, primarily due to the perception bottleneck regarding fine-grained visual elements. While formal languages have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Peijie Wang , Ming-Liang Zhang , Jun Cao , Chao Deng , Dekang Ran , Hongda Sun , Pi Bu , Xuan Zhang , Yingyao Wang , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu

Geometric problem solving constitutes a critical branch of mathematical reasoning, requiring precise analysis of shapes and spatial relationships. Current evaluations of geometric reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) face limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yuan Feng , Yue Yang , Xiaohan He , Jiatong Zhao , Jianlong Chen , Zijun Chen , Daocheng Fu , Qi Liu , Renqiu Xia , Bo Zhang , Junchi Yan

Recently spatial-temporal intelligence of Visual-Language Models (VLMs) has attracted much attention due to its importance for autonomous driving, embodied AI and general AI. Existing spatial-temporal benchmarks mainly focus on egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Qinghongbing Xie , Zhaoyuan Xia , Feng Zhu , Lijun Gong , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao , Long Zeng

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, enabling intuitive understanding and manipulation of objects in three-dimensional space. While foundation models demonstrate remarkable performance on some benchmarks, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fan-Yun Sun , Weiyu Liu , Siyi Gu , Dylan Lim , Goutam Bhat , Federico Tombari , Manling Li , Nick Haber , Jiajun Wu

Existing Vision Language Models (VLMs) architecturally rooted in "flatland" perception, fundamentally struggle to comprehend real-world 3D spatial intelligence. This failure stems from a dual-bottleneck: input-stage conflict between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zhongbin Guo , Jiahe Liu , Yushan Li , Wenyu Gao , Zhen Yang , Chenzhi Li , Xinyue Zhang , Ping Jian

Recent work explores new opportunities at the intersection of vision-language-action models (VLAs) and geometric foundation models (GFMs) for 3D reconstruction, such as VGGT. While the resulting geometric VLAs often show improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yurou Yang , Muyuan Lin , Roberto Martin-Martin , Martin Labrie , Shreekant Gayaka , Cheng-Hao Kuo , Luca Carlone

Solid geometry problem solving demands spatial mathematical reasoning that integrates spatial intelligence and symbolic reasoning. However, most existing multimodal mathematical reasoning benchmarks focus primarily on 2D plane geometry,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Changti Wu , Shijie Lian , Zihao Liu , Lei Zhang , Laurence Tianruo Yang , Kai Chen

The rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked the potential for enhanced 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning. A recent line of work explores learning spatial reasoning directly from multi-view images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kanghee Lee , Injae Lee , Minseok Kwak , Jungi Hong , Kwonyoung Ryu , Jaesik Park

Open-vocabulary 3D visual grounding and reasoning aim to localize objects in a scene based on implicit language descriptions, even when they are occluded. This ability is crucial for tasks such as vision-language navigation and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zhenyang Liu , Yikai Wang , Sixiao Zheng , Tongying Pan , Longfei Liang , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue

The rapid advancement of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for 2D images and videos has motivated extending these models to understand 3D scenes, aiming for human-like visual-spatial intelligence. Nevertheless, achieving deep spatial…

Despite significant progress in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), existing approaches still rely on dense RGB videos that produce excessive patch tokens and lack explicit spatial structure, resulting in substantial computational overhead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiahao Yang , Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Shuqiang Jiang