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Spatial reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is the foundation for embodied intelligence. However, even in simple maze environments, LLMs still encounter challenges in long-term path-planning, primarily influenced by their spatial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Hourui Deng , Hongjie Zhang , Jie Ou , Chaosheng Feng

Current robot autonomy struggles to operate beyond the assumed Operational Design Domain (ODD), the specific set of conditions and environments in which the system is designed to function, while the real-world is rife with uncertainties…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Hongyi Chen , Yunchao Yao , Ruixuan Liu , Changliu Liu , Jeffrey Ichnowski

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong generative capabilities and have shown great potential in code generation. Existing chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting methods enhance model reasoning by eliciting intermediate steps, but suffer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shen Li , Li Huang , Shaoxiong Zhan , Weifeng Sun , Tao Yin , Zhongxin Liu , Meng Yan

The Zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) task requires agents to navigate previously unseen 3D environments using natural language instructions, without any scene-specific training. A critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Diqi He , Xuehao Gao , Hao Li , Junwei Han , Dingwen Zhang

Despite significant recent progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), current MLLMs are challenged by "spatio-temporal" prompts, i.e., prompts that refer to 1) the entirety of an environment encoded in a point cloud that the MLLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Haozhen Zheng , Beitong Tian , Mingyuan Wu , Zhenggang Tang , Klara Nahrstedt , Alex Schwing

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved 2D visual understanding, prompting interest in their application to complex 3D reasoning tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiaoyu Zhan , Wenxuan Huang , Hao Sun , Xinyu Fu , Changfeng Ma , Shaosheng Cao , Bohan Jia , Shaohui Lin , Zhenfei Yin , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Yuanqi Li , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) focuses on locating objects in 3D scenes based on natural language descriptions, serving as a fundamental task for embodied AI and robotics. Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Beining Xu , Siting Zhu , Zhao Jin , Junxian Li , Hesheng Wang

Recent advances in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in vision-language understanding. However, enabling robust video spatial reasoning-the ability to comprehend object locations, orientations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haoran Tang , Meng Cao , Ruyang Liu , Xiaoxi Liang , Linglong Li , Ge Li , Xiaodan Liang

Spatial reasoning is an important component of human intelligence. We can imagine the shapes of 3D objects and reason about their spatial relations by merely looking at their three-view line drawings in 2D, with different levels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Wenyu Han , Siyuan Xiang , Chenhui Liu , Ruoyu Wang , Chen Feng

Path planning under wireless performance constraints is a complex challenge in robot navigation. However, naively incorporating such constraints into classical planning algorithms often incurs prohibitive search costs. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Aladin Djuhera , Amin Seffo , Vlad C. Andrei , Holger Boche , Walid Saad

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

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capability in reasoning with natural language. Coupled with this development is the emergence of embodied AI in robotics. Despite showing promise for verbal and written reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Veronica Bot , Zheyuan Xu

Spatial reasoning -- the ability to perceive and reason about relationships in space -- advances vision-language models (VLMs) from visual perception toward spatial semantic understanding. Existing approaches either revisit local image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weijian Ma , Shizhao Sun , Tianyu Yu , Ruiyu Wang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jiang Bian

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has recently benefited from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), enabling zero-shot navigation. While recent exploration-based zero-shot methods have shown promising results by leveraging global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiwen Zhang , Xiangyu Shi , Siyuan Wang , Zerui Li , Zhongyu Wei , Qi Wu

We present a framework for optimizing prompts in vision-language models to elicit multimodal reasoning without model retraining. Using an evolutionary algorithm to guide prompt updates downstream of visual tasks, our approach improves upon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Sid Bharthulwar , John Rho , Katrina Brown

The remarkable advancements in large language models (LLMs) have brought about significant improvements in Natural Language Processing(NLP) tasks. This paper presents a comprehensive review of in-context learning techniques, focusing on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yinheng Li

Visual reasoning, particularly spatial reasoning, is a challenging cognitive task that requires understanding object relationships and their interactions within complex environments, especially in robotics domain. Existing vision_language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Abhinav Dhall , Hamid Rezatofighi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been applied to autonomous driving to support decision-making in complex real-world scenarios. However, their training on static, web-sourced image-text pairs fundamentally limits the precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Keishi Ishihara , Kento Sasaki , Tsubasa Takahashi , Daiki Shiono , Yu Yamaguchi

Spatial reasoning focuses on locating target objects based on spatial relations in 3D scenes, which plays a crucial role in developing intelligent embodied agents. Due to the limited availability of 3D scene-language paired data, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Shengli Zhou , Minghang Zheng , Feng Zheng , Yang Liu

Most text-to-video (T2V) generators prioritize aesthetic quality, but often ignoring the spatial constraints in the generated videos. In this work, we present SPATIALALIGN, a self-improvement framework that enhances T2V models capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Fengming Liu , Tat-Jen Cham , Chuanxia Zheng