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Spatial reasoning, the ability to understand spatial relations, causality, and dynamic evolution, is central to human intelligence and essential for real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Existing studies, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yanguang Zhao , Jie Yang , Shengqiong Wu , Shutong Hu , Hongbo Qiu , Yu Wang , Guijia Zhang , Tan Kai Ze , Hao Fei , Chia-Wen Lin , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promising results as decision-making engines for embodied agents operating in complex, physical environments. However, existing benchmarks often prioritize high-level planning or spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Dayong Liu , Chao Xu , Weihong Chen , Suyu Zhang , Juncheng Wang , Jiankang Deng , Baigui Sun , Yang Liu

In this paper, we introduce SPA, a novel representation learning framework that emphasizes the importance of 3D spatial awareness in embodied AI. Our approach leverages differentiable neural rendering on multi-view images to endow a vanilla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyi Zhu , Honghui Yang , Yating Wang , Jiange Yang , Limin Wang , Tong He

It is well known that perspective alignment plays a major role in the planning and interpretation of spatial language. In order to understand the role of perspective alignment and the cognitive processes involved, we have made precise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-02-13 L. Steels , M. Loetzsch

Spatial competence is the quality of maintaining a consistent internal representation of an environment and using it to infer discrete structure and plan actions under constraints. Prevailing spatial evaluations for large models are limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jash Vira , Ashley Harris

Large language model (LLM) based task plans and corresponding human demonstrations for embodied AI may be noisy, with unnecessary actions, redundant navigation, and logical errors that reduce policy quality. We propose an iterative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ananth Hariharan , Vardhan Dongre , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur

Autonomous agents operating in the real world must interact continuously with existing physical and semantic infrastructure, track delayed consequences, and verify outcomes over time. Everyday environments are rich in tangible control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jieru Lin , Zhiwei Yu , Börje F. Karlsson

The enhancement of generalization in robots by large vision-language models (LVLMs) is increasingly evident. Therefore, the embodied cognitive abilities of LVLMs based on egocentric videos are of great interest. However, current datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ronghao Dang , Yuqian Yuan , Wenqi Zhang , Yifei Xin , Boqiang Zhang , Long Li , Liuyi Wang , Qinyang Zeng , Xin Li , Lidong Bing

Latent space is rapidly emerging as a native substrate for language-based models. While modern systems are still commonly understood through explicit token-level generation, an increasing body of work shows that many critical internal…

In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that enables spatially steerable embodied reasoning by allowing users to guide robot policies with explicit visual cues. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yiran Ling , Qing Lian , Jinghang Li , Qing Jiang , Tianming Zhang , Xiaoke Jiang , Chuanxiu Liu , Jie Liu , Lei Zhang

Decision making via sequence modeling aims to mimic the success of language models, where actions taken by an embodied agent are modeled as tokens to predict. Despite their promising performance, it remains unclear if embodied sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Tian Yun , Zilai Zeng , Kunal Handa , Ashish V. Thapliyal , Bo Pang , Ellie Pavlick , Chen Sun

Passive visual systems typically fail to recognize objects in the amodal setting where they are heavily occluded. In contrast, humans and other embodied agents have the ability to move in the environment, and actively control the viewing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Jianwei Yang , Zhile Ren , Mingze Xu , Xinlei Chen , David Crandall , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, especially for fine-grained manipulation tasks such as robotic assembly. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit preliminary spatial awareness, they largely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhi Jing , Jinbin Qiao , Ouyang Lu , Jicong Ao , Shuang Qiu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Chenjia Bai

A core task in embodied intelligence is ego-centric 3D visual grounding. Existing methods typically adopt two-stage, heterogeneous pipelines that pair a detector with a separate grounding model. Incompatible decoders and box heads hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yani Zhang , Dongming Wu , Hao Shi , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang , Xingping Dong

Large language models are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems to overcome context limitations by distributing information across agents. Yet whether agents can reliably compute with distributed information, rather than merely…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuzhe Zhang , Feiran Liu , Yi Shan , Xinyi Huang , Xin Yang , Yueqi Zhu , Xuxin Cheng , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Wenyuan Jiang

Despite rapid progress in Multi-modal Large Language Models and Large Audio-Language Models, existing audio benchmarks largely test semantics that can be recovered from text captions, masking deficits in fine-grained perceptual reasoning.…

This paper frames a general prediction system as an observer traveling around a continuous space, measuring values at some locations, and predicting them at others. The observer is completely agnostic about any particular task being solved;…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Elliot Meyerson , Risto Miikkulainen

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

Amodal completion, the task of inferring invisible object parts, faces significant challenges in maintaining semantic consistency and structural integrity. Prior progressive approaches are inherently limited by inference instability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Hongxing Fan , Shuyu Zhao , Jiayang Ao , Lu Sheng

Embodied reasoning systems integrate robotic hardware and cognitive processes to perform complex tasks, typically in response to a natural language query about a specific physical environment. This usually involves changing the belief about…