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Humans paint images incrementally: they plan a global layout, sketch a coarse draft, inspect, and refine details, and most importantly, each step is grounded in the evolving visual states. However, can unified multimodal models trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lei Zhang , Junjiao Tian , Zhipeng Fan , Kunpeng Li , Jialiang Wang , Weifeng Chen , Markos Georgopoulos , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yuxiang Bao , Julian McAuley , Manling Li , Zecheng He

Existing methods for vision-and-language learning typically require designing task-specific architectures and objectives for each task. For example, a multi-label answer classifier for visual question answering, a region scorer for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jaemin Cho , Jie Lei , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Visual reasoning (VR), which is crucial in many fields for enabling human-like visual understanding, remains highly challenging. Recently, compositional visual reasoning approaches, which leverage the reasoning abilities of large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fucai Ke , Vijay Kumar B G , Xingjian Leng , Zhixi Cai , Zaid Khan , Weiqing Wang , Pari Delir Haghighi , Hamid Rezatofighi , Manmohan Chandraker

Reasoning benchmarks such as the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) and ARC-AGI are widely used to assess progress in artificial intelligence and are often interpreted as probes of core, so-called ``fluid'' reasoning abilities. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xinhe Wang , Jin Huang , Xingjian Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Jiaqi W. Ma

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for eliciting reasoning chains before generating final answers. However, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) generate reasoning that lacks integration of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Omar Sharif , Eftekhar Hossain , Patrick Ng

In this work, we study the problem of Text-to-Image In-Context Learning (T2I-ICL). While Unified Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years, they struggle with contextual reasoning in T2I-ICL scenarios. To address this…

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Artificial intelligence-driven adaptive learning systems are reshaping education through data-driven adaptation of learning experiences. Yet many of these systems lack transparency, offering limited insight into how decisions are made. Most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Maryam Mosleh , Marie Devlin , Ellis Solaiman

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate significant potential but remain brittle in complex, long-chain visual reasoning tasks. A critical failure mode is "visual forgetting", where models progressively lose visual grounding as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Siqi Yang , Zilve Gao , Haibo Qiu , Fanfan Liu , Peng Shi , Zhixiong Zeng , Qingmin Liao , Lin Ma

Reasoning is essential for large language models (LLMs), especially in complex tasks such as mathematical problem solving. However, multimodal reasoning still faces challenges in modality alignment and training scalability, as many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yahan Yu , Yuyang Dong , Masafumi Oyamada

Visual reasoning, the capability to interpret visual input in response to implicit text query through multi-step reasoning, remains a challenge for deep learning models due to the lack of relevant benchmarks. Previous work in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yiqing Shen , Chenjia Li , Chenxiao Fan , Mathias Unberath

Visual grounding focuses on establishing fine-grained alignment between vision and natural language, which has essential applications in multimodal reasoning systems. Existing methods use pre-trained query-agnostic visual backbones to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Jiabo Ye , Junfeng Tian , Ming Yan , Xiaoshan Yang , Xuwu Wang , Ji Zhang , Liang He , Xin Lin

While text-to-image models have achieved impressive capabilities in image generation and editing, their application across various modalities often necessitates training separate models. Inspired by existing method of single image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Gihyun Kwon , Jangho Park , Jong Chul Ye

Tool-integrated visual reasoning (TiVR) has demonstrated great potential in enhancing multimodal problem-solving. However, existing TiVR paradigms mainly focus on integrating various visual tools through reinforcement learning, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuji Wang , Wenlong Liu , Jingxuan Niu , Haoji Zhang , Yansong Tang

Vision-language large models are moving toward the unification of visual understanding and visual generation tasks. However, whether generation can enhance understanding is still under-explored on large data scale. In this work, we analysis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Fengjiao Chen , Minhao Jing , Weitao Lu , Yan Feng , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao

The rapid advancement of generative models has empowered modern AI systems to comprehend and produce highly sophisticated content, even achieving human-level performance in specific domains. However, these models are fundamentally…

Recent advancements in generative models have significantly enhanced their capacity for image generation, enabling a wide range of applications such as image editing, completion and video editing. A specialized area within generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jiaxin Cheng , Zixu Zhao , Tong He , Tianjun Xiao , Yicong Zhou , Zheng Zhang

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

Recent advances in visual generation have increasingly explored the integration of reasoning capabilities. They incorporate textual reasoning, i.e., think, either before (as pre-planning) or after (as post-refinement) the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ziyu Guo , Renrui Zhang , Hongyu Li , Manyuan Zhang , Xinyan Chen , Sifan Wang , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

We present a novel framework for iterative visual reasoning. Our framework goes beyond current recognition systems that lack the capability to reason beyond stack of convolutions. The framework consists of two core modules: a local module…

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