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Tool-augmented multimodal reasoning enables visual language models (VLMs) to improve perception by interacting with external tools (e.g., cropping, depth estimation). However, such approaches incur substantial inference overhead, require…
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Assessing the veracity of online content has become increasingly critical. Large language models (LLMs) have recently enabled substantial progress in automated veracity assessment, including automated fact-checking and claim verification…
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Humans build viewpoint-independent cognitive maps through navigation, enabling intuitive reasoning about object permanence and spatial relations. We argue that multimodal large language models (MLLMs), despite extensive video training, lack…