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Top-view perspective denotes a typical way in which humans read and reason over different types of maps, and it is vital for localization and navigation of humans as well as of `non-human' agents, such as the ones backed by large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chengzu Li , Caiqi Zhang , Han Zhou , Nigel Collier , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

Vision Language Models (VLMs) exhibit a fundamental semantic-to-geometric gap in spatial reasoning: they excel at qualitative semantic inference but their reasoning operates within a lossy semantic space, misaligned with high-fidelity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zeren Chen , Xiaoya Lu , Zhijie Zheng , Pengrui Li , Lehan He , Yijin Zhou , Jing Shao , Bohan Zhuang , Lu Sheng

Recent neuro-symbolic geometry theorem provers have made significant progress on Euclidean problems by coupling neural guidance with symbolic verification. However, most existing systems operate almost exclusively in a symbolic space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Minfeng Zhu , Zi Wang , Sizhe Ji , Zhengtong Du , Shengqiang Tai , Junming Ke , Xiao Deng , Zanlang Yin , Xiuqi Huang , Heyu Wang , Wei Chen

In this paper, we study the problem of geometric reasoning in the context of question-answering. We introduce Dynamic Spatial Memory Network (DSMN), a new deep network architecture designed for answering questions that admit latent visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ankit Goyal , Jian Wang , Jia Deng

We consider molecule generation in 3D space using language models (LMs), which requires discrete tokenization of 3D molecular geometries. Although tokenization of molecular graphs exists, that for 3D geometries is largely unexplored. Here,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xiner Li , Limei Wang , Youzhi Luo , Carl Edwards , Shurui Gui , Yuchao Lin , Heng Ji , Shuiwang Ji

Reasoning about fine-grained spatial relationships in warehouse-scale environments poses a significant challenge for existing vision-language models (VLMs), which often struggle to comprehend 3D layouts, object arrangements, and multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Vinh-Thuan Ly , Hoang M. Truong , Xuan-Huong Nguyen

Cross-view geo-spatial learning consists of two important tasks: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) and Cross-View Image Synthesis (CVIS), both of which rely on establishing geometric correspondences between ground and aerial views. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yancheng Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Zonglin Lyu , Safwan Wshah , Chen Chen

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, due to the restricted input resolutions, MLLMs face significant challenges in precisely understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lu Zhang , Jiazuo Yu , Haomiao Xiong , Ping Hu , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , You He

Vision language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in integrating linguistic and visual reasoning but remain fundamentally limited in understanding dynamic spatiotemporal interactions. Humans effortlessly track and reason…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Shijie Zhou , Alexander Vilesov , Xuehai He , Ziyu Wan , Shuwang Zhang , Aditya Nagachandra , Di Chang , Dongdong Chen , Xin Eric Wang , Achuta Kadambi

Reliable spatial reasoning remains a core bottleneck for vision-language models (VLMs). Existing mainstream training paradigms for spatial reasoning largely rely on outcome alignment or process imitation, lacking explicit constraints on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiangyang Li , Cong Wan , Changjie Wu , Songlin Dong , Lingjun Zhang , Linzhe Shi , Xu Wang , Zhiheng Ma , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu , Yihong Gong

Understanding the geometric and semantic structure of environments is essential for embodied navigation and reasoning. Existing semantic mapping methods trade off between explicit geometry and multi-scale semantics, and lack a native…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sixian Zhang , Yiyao Wang , Xinhang Song , Keming Zhang , Zijian Xu , Shuqiang Jiang

Recent advances in multimodal large language models(MLLMs) have led to remarkable progress in visual grounding, enabling fine-grained cross-modal alignment between textual queries and image regions. However, transferring such capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Luxiao Xu , Jinliang Lin , Zonghao Guo , Fengxiang Wang , Xue Yang , Kaiwen Wei , Lei Wang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are good at recognizing the global location of a photograph -- their geolocation prediction accuracy rivals the best human experts. But many VLMs are startlingly bad at \textit{explaining} which image evidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohit Talreja , Joshua Diao , Jim Thannikary James , Radu Casapu , Tejas Santanam , Ethan Mendes , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu , James Hays

Evaluating the symbolic reasoning of large language models (LLMs) calls for geometry benchmarks that require multi-step proofs grounded in both text and diagrams. However, existing benchmarks are often limited in scale and rarely provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yushun Zhang , Weiping Fu , Zesheng Yang , Bo Zhao , Lingling Zhang , Jian Zhang , Yumeng Fu , Jiaxing Huang , Jun Liu

Humans can perceive and understand 3D space and long videos from sequential visual observations. But do vision-language models (VLMs) can? Recent work demonstrates that even state-of-the-art VLMs still struggle to understand 3D space and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shuai Wang , Daoan Zhang , Tianyi Bai , Shitong Shao , Jiebo Luo , Jiaheng Wei

Geometric reasoning inherently requires "thinking with constructions" -- the dynamic manipulation of visual aids to bridge the gap between problem conditions and solutions. However, existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haokun Zhao , Wanshi Xu , Haidong Yuan , Songjun Cao , Long Ma , Yanghua Xiao

Geographic reasoning is a fundamental cognitive capability that requires models to infer plausible locations by synthesizing visual evidence with spatial world knowledge. Despite recent advances in large vision-language models (LVLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengyue Jia , Yingyi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Sharon Li

Geometry is a fundamental branch of mathematics and plays a crucial role in evaluating the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing multimodal mathematics benchmarks mainly focus on plane…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Peijie Wang , Chao Yang , Zhong-Zhi Li , Fei Yin , Dekang Ran , Mi Tian , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Cheng-Lin Liu

Understanding geometry relies heavily on vision. In this work, we evaluate whether state-of-the-art vision language models (VLMs) can understand simple geometric concepts. We use a paradigm from cognitive science that isolates visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Eliza Kosoy , Annya Dahmani , Andrew K. Lampinen , Iulia M. Comsa , Soojin Jeong , Ishita Dasgupta , Kelsey Allen

Generating structured, editable diagrams remains a significant challenge for contemporary large language models, despite their proficiency in general-purpose vector code generation. The primary difficulty lies in the structural fragility of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sifan Li , Yujun Cai , Hongkai Chen , Yiwei Wang