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Geometry problem-solving (GPS), a challenging task requiring both visual comprehension and symbolic reasoning, effectively measures the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Humans exhibit strong reasoning…

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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

Mathematical geometric reasoning is essential for scientific discovery and educational development, requiring precise logic and rigorous formal verification. While recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have improved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jingxuan Wei , Caijun Jia , Qi Chen , Honghao He , Linzhuang Sun , Conghui He , Lijun Wu , Bihui Yu , Cheng Tan

This paper introduces GeoChain, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating step-by-step geographic reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Leveraging 1.46 million Mapillary street-level images, GeoChain pairs each image with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sahiti Yerramilli , Nilay Pande , Rynaa Grover , Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli

Despite the remarkable success of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in generative tasks, we observe that they exhibit a counterintuitive deficiency in the zero-shot multimodal retrieval task. In this work, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hengyi Feng , Zeang Sheng , Meiyi Qiang , Yang Li , Wentao Zhang

Spatial intelligence, which refers to the ability to reason about geometric and physical structure from visual observations, remains a core challenge for multimodal large language models. Despite promising performance, recent multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yian Li , Yang Jiao , Bin Zhu , Tianwen Qian , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

The evolution of Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models(RS-VLMs) emphasizes the importance of transitioning from perception-centric recognition toward high-level deductive reasoning to enhance cognitive reliability in complex spatial tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Wenshuai Li , Xiantai Xiang , Zixiao Wen , Guangyao Zhou , Ben Niu , Feng Wang , Lijia Huang , Qiantong Wang , Yuxin Hu

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced greatly in general tasks. However, they still face challenges in geometric reasoning, a task that requires synergistic integration of visual recognition proficiency and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhihao Li , Yao Du , Yang Liu , Yan Zhang , Yufang Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Xunliang Cai , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still lack robustness in spatial intelligence, demonstrating poor performance on spatial understanding and reasoning tasks. We attribute this gap to the absence of a visual geometry learning process capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Wenbo Hu , Jingli Lin , Yilin Long , Yunlong Ran , Lihan Jiang , Yifan Wang , Chenming Zhu , Runsen Xu , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang

Empowered by large-scale training, vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong image and video understanding, yet their ability to perform spatial reasoning in both static scenes and dynamic videos remains limited. Recent advances try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shihua Zhang , Qiuhong Shen , Shizun Wang , Tianbo Pan , Xinchao Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in medical image analysis. However, their application in gastrointestinal endoscopy is currently hindered by two critical limitations: the misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Huan Zheng , Yucheng Zhou , Tianyi Yan , Dubing Chen , Hongbo Lu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng , Jianbing Shen

Benchmarking spatial reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has attracted growing interest in computer vision due to its importance for embodied AI and other agentic systems that require precise interaction with the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zelin Xu , Yupu Zhang , Saugat Adhikari , Saiful Islam , Tingsong Xiao , Zibo Liu , Shigang Chen , Da Yan , Zhe Jiang

Large language models have shown impressive results for multi-hop mathematical reasoning when the input question is only textual. Many mathematical reasoning problems, however, contain both text and image. With the ever-increasing adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mehran Kazemi , Hamidreza Alvari , Ankit Anand , Jialin Wu , Xi Chen , Radu Soricut

Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiaomin Yu , Yi Xin , Yuhui Zhang , Wenjie Zhang , Chonghan Liu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chen Liu , Xiaoxing Hu , Ziyue Qiao , Hao Tang , Xiaobin Hu , Chengwei Qin , Hui Xiong , Yu Qiao , Shuicheng Yan

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved significant progress in image and language tasks due to the strong reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, most MLLMs suffer from limited spatial reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jiajie Guo , Qingpeng Zhu , Jin Zeng , Xiaolong Wu , Changyong He , Weida Wang

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in 2D visual understanding, their ability to reason about 3D space remains limited. To address this gap, we introduce geometrically referenced 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jiangye Yuan , Gowri Kumar , Baoyuan Wang

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly enhanced performance on 2D visual tasks. However, improving their spatial intelligence remains a challenge. Existing 3D MLLMs always rely on additional 3D or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Diankun Wu , Fangfu Liu , Yi-Hsin Hung , Yueqi Duan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in connecting vision and language, but they still struggle with spatial understanding and viewpoint-aware reasoning. Recent efforts aim to augment the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Kevin Qu , Haozhe Qi , Mihai Dusmanu , Mahdi Rad , Rui Wang , Marc Pollefeys

This paper presents GeoAgent, a model capable of reasoning closely with humans and deriving fine-grained address conclusions. Previous RL-based methods have achieved breakthroughs in performance and interpretability but still remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Modi Jin , Yiming Zhang , Boyuan Sun , Dingwen Zhang , MingMing Cheng , Qibin Hou

The recent advancements in text-to-image generative models have been remarkable. Yet, the field suffers from a lack of evaluation metrics that accurately reflect the performance of these models, particularly lacking fine-grained metrics…

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