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  1. GeoLatent: Geometry-Guided Latent Structuring with Routed Optimization for 3D Reasoning

    Oct 1, 2026Yakun Zhu, Yi Bin, Yujuan Ding +53D Spatial ReasoningDiscriminative Congruence Transform

    Tongji University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  2. SPHERE: Adaptive VR Indoor Scene Generation via LLM-Enhanced Spatial Preference Learning and Human-in-the-Loop RL

    Oct 1, 2026Hyeonmin Lee, Zheng Wei, Kyungmin Kwon +3Indoor Scene Generation3D Spatial Reasoning

    Sungkyunkwan University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  3. WM-VLM: Probing Internal World Models for Interleaved Visual-Textual Reasoning

    Sep 28, 2026Yuheng Zha, Yilei Wang, Qiyue Gao +5Recent Vision-Language ModelsVlm-To-Vla Capability Transfer

    UC San Diego · Institute of Foundation Models, MBZUAI · Carnegie Mellon University

  4. EpiTransfer: Sparse, Training-Free Long-Range Depth Estimation from Temporal Monocular Aerial Frames

    Sep 27, 2026Diksha Aggarwal, Rutvik Dagadkhair, Sanjana Srivastava +2Depth EstimationScale-Ambiguous Epipolar Geometry

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. · Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

  5. Seeing Is Not Measuring: Tool-Augmented Metric Spatial Reasoning for Vision-Language Models

    Sep 24, 2026Kai Glantz, Clemens GrangeRecent Vision-Language Models3D Spatial Reasoning

    Technical University of Munich

  6. Depth-Guided Contrastive Learning for 2D Representations with 3D Spatial Awareness

    Sep 23, 2026Liang Zeng, Maarten VergauwenContrastive Learning3D Spatial Reasoning

    KU Leuven Belgium

  7. SceneBench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding of 3D Scenes

    Sep 14, 2026Anubhav Khanal, Prabigya Acharya, Roshni Poudel +53D Spatial Reasoning3D Generation

    Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research (NAAMII), Nepal · INSAIT, Sofia University, Bulgaria · State University of New York at Stony Brook, Korea

  8. Assisted Spatial Cognition Through Vision-Language Models

    Sep 14, 2026H. Riaz, J. B. Fernandez, I. Mills +3Vision-Language Navigation3D Spatial Reasoning

    School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland · Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin, Ireland · South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland

  9. GraFT: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via 3D Scene Graphs

    Sep 3, 2026Junqing Du, Fernando Ropero, Erkin Turkoz +23D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    Riemann Lab, Huawei Technologies

  10. SpatialGuard: Harness-Guided Verifiable Spatial Reasoning for Text-to-Image Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Ziyun Qian, Zizhi Chen, Yizhou Liu +33D Layout Generation3D Spatial Reasoning

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · Fysics Intelligence Technologies Co., Ltd. (Fysics AI)

  11. Dyn-3D: Unveiling and Resolving Ego-Motion Ambiguity in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 1, 2026Jiayu Ding, Zhuodong Liu, Lei Zhang +63D Spatial Reasoning3D Motion

    InkMind Team

  12. Feed-Forward Multi-view Multi-person Reconstruction with Contrastive Human-Aware 3D Representation

    Sep 1, 2026Yuanwang Yang, Buzhen Huang, Zongxuan Ren +2Avatar ReconstructionCross-View

    College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, 135 Yaguan Road, Tianjin, 300350, Tianjin, China.

  13. CoverPrune: Coverage-Driven Token Pruning for 3D VLMs via Optimal Transport

    Aug 13, 2026Peng Ling, Yingda Yin, Lingting Zhu +5Visual Token Pruning3D Spatial Reasoning

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · LIGHTSPEED

  14. SCOUT: Unlocking Enhanced Spatial Reasoning via Structured Chain-of-Thought and Multi-Objective Process Reward

    Aug 12, 2026Zile Zhou, Huining Yuan, Weichen Zhang +23D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

  15. PolyLayout: Hierarchical VLM-Guided Layout Generation Beyond Rectangular Rooms

    Aug 11, 2026Yutong Jiang, Zahra Atashgahi, Carlos Soto Garcia Delgado +43D Layout GenerationLayouts

    IKEA Retail (Ingka Group), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  16. Disentangling 3D Modeling from Spatial Reasoning

    Aug 5, 2026Haoze Sun, Jiequan Cui, Qingshan Xu +13D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    HFUT · USTC

  17. CalibBEV: LiDAR-Camera Calibration via BEV Alignment

    Aug 3, 2026Filippo D'Addeo, Lorenzo Cipelli, Adriano Cardace +3Bird'S-Eye View3D Spatial Reasoning

    University of Bologna, Department of Industrial Engineering, Italy. · University of Parma, Department of Engineering and Architecture, Italy. · Stanford University, USA. +1

  18. ViewMind3D: Modular View-Aware Inference for Training-Free 3D-QA

    Jul 30, 2026Ping-Kun Chiang, Kun-Ru Wu, Po-han Li +33D Spatial Reasoning3D Generation

  19. 3D-Aware VLMs with Implicit and Explicit Geometries

    Jul 23, 2026Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian +43D Spatial Reasoning3D Object Detection

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · 3HuPan Lab +1

  20. SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments

    Jul 22, 2026Yang Xu, Gurpreet Singh Mukker, Raymond Wang +3Robotic GraspingGrasp Adaptation

    University of Toronto · Vector Institute · University of British Columbia +1

  21. Towards Enhancing 3D Spatial Reasoning in Medical Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 15, 2026Zhuoyuan Fu, Zeshang Li, Yiqiong Zhang +53D Spatial Reasoning3D Medical Image Segmentation

    University of International Relations, Beijing, China · University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  22. GeoAnchor: Collaborative Reasoning via Latent Decomposition for 3D Spatial Understanding

    Jul 15, 2026Hao Li, Han Fang, Zixin Pan +83D Spatial ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Xingchen AGI Lab, China Telecom Artificial Intelligence Technology (Beijing) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +1

  23. SpaR3D-MoE: Adaptive 3D Spatial Reasoning from Sparse Views Meets Geometry-Inductive Mixture-of-Experts

    Jul 7, 2026Haida Feng, Hao Wei, Haolin Wang +33D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · YUKUN Intelligent World, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

  24. R3D: Quantitative 3D Spatial Reasoning for Egocentric Wearables

    Jul 3, 2026Maxwell Horton, Wei Lu, Quan Tran +63D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    Meta Reality Labs

  25. SpaceEra++: A Unified Framework Towards 3D Spatial Reasoning in Video

    Jul 2, 2026Weili Guan, Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu +33D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    School of Information Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen 518045, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China +4

  26. SpatialSV: Internalizing Interpretable 3D Spatial Awareness in MLLMs via Task-Oriented Visual Supervision

    Jun 18, 2026Jiayu Tang, Yuchen Zhou, Chao Gou3D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Priors

    School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University

  27. LooseControlVideo: Directorial Video Control using Spatial Blocking

    Jun 17, 2026Shariq Farooq Bhat, Niloy J. Mitra, Kalyan Sunkavalli3D Spatial ReasoningExpressivity

    Adobe Research

  28. Language as a Sensor: Calibrated Spatial Belief Estimation in 3D Scenes from Natural Language

    Jun 7, 2026Aryan Naveen, Jason Xinyu Liu, Luca Carlone +13D Spatial ReasoningSemantic Mapping

    MIT Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems · MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  29. Skill-3D: Evolving Scene-Aware Skills for Agentic 3D Spatial Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Haoyuan Li, Zhengdong Hu, Jun Wang +23D Spatial ReasoningAgentic Reasoning

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia · OPPO Research Institute, Shenzhen, China

  30. Stream3D-VLM: Online 3D Spatial Understanding with Incremental Geometry Priors

    Jun 5, 2026Hanxun Yu, Xuan Qu, Lei Ke +43D Spatial ReasoningVoxel

    1Zhejiang University · 2Tencent Hunyuan · 3HKUST +1

  31. Learning Geometric Representations from Videos for Spatial Intelligent Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jun 4, 2026Haibo Wang, Lifu Huang3D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    University of California, Davis

  32. 3DThinkVLA: Endowing Vision-Language-Action Models with Latent 3D Priors via 3D-Thinking-Guided Co-training

    Jun 3, 2026Jiaxin Shi, Xidong Zhang, Fucai Zhu +33D Spatial Reasoning3D Priors

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Daimon Robotics · Harbin Institute of Technology +4

  33. MASER: Modality-Adaptive Specialist Routing for Embodied 3D Spatial Intelligence

    Jun 1, 2026Hilton Raj, Vishnuram AV3D Spatial ReasoningPoint Clouds

    Boston University

  34. Distilling Neuro-Symbolic Programs into 3D Multi-modal LLMs

    May 31, 2026Wentao Mo, Yang Liu3D Spatial ReasoningNeuro-Symbolic Framework

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University

  35. Beyond 3D VQAs: Injecting 3D Spatial Priors into Vision-Language Models for Enhanced Geometric Reasoning

    May 28, 2026Chun-Hsiao Yeh, Shengyi Qian, Manchen Wang +33D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    FAIR at Meta · UC Berkeley · HKU

  36. Embodied3DBench: Benchmarking Low-Level Embodied Spatial Intelligence of Vision Language Models

    May 27, 2026Jiyao Zhang, Mingxu Zhang, Yitong Peng +83D Spatial ReasoningStable Spatial Understanding

  37. SSR3D-LLM: Structured Spatial Reasoning via Latent Steps for Fine-Grained Grounding in Unified 3D-LLMs

    May 27, 2026Jiawei Li, Ziyi Liu, Weijie Shi +33D Visual Grounding3D Spatial Reasoning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Soochow University

  38. Bridging the 2D-3D Gap: A Hierarchical Semantic-Geometric Map for Vision Language Navigation

    May 25, 2026Kailing Li, Tianwen Qian, Lijin Yang +4Vision-Language Navigation3D Spatial Reasoning

    School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University · 2Bosch Corporate Research, Shanghai, China · 3King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  39. EgoProx: Evaluating MLLMs on Egocentric 3D Proximity Reasoning Across a Cognitive Hierarchy

    May 23, 2026Jinzhao Li, Yinuo Chen, Dongxu Piao +93D Spatial ReasoningEgocentric Vision

    College of AI, Tsinghua University · 2ByteDance · 3State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI

  40. Do Vision-Language Models Understand 3D Scenes or Just Catalogue Objects?

    May 19, 2026Animesh Maheshwari, Divyansh Sahu, Nishit Verma3D Spatial ReasoningDiverse Occlusion-And-Revelation Scenarios

    Deccan AI

  41. CaMo: Camera Motion Grounded Evaluation and Training for Vision-Language Models

    May 19, 2026Hsiang-Wei Huang, Junbin Lu, Kuang-Ming Chen +33D Spatial ReasoningCamera Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  42. STABLE: Simulation-Ready Tabletop Layout Generation via a Semantics-Physics Dual System

    May 15, 2026Zhen Luo, Yixuan Yang, Xudong Xu +5Physics SimulationEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    1SII 2SUSTech · 2SUSTech · 3Shanghai AI Laboratory +4

  43. 3D Primitives are a Spatial Language for VLMs

    May 12, 2026Junze Liu, Kun Qian, Florian Dubost +83D Spatial Reasoning3D Geometry

    Unity Technologies

  44. SpatialForge: Bootstrapping 3D-Aware Spatial Reasoning from Open-World 2D Images

    May 12, 2026Zishan Liu, Ruoxi Zang, Yanglin Zhang +53D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    1Lingnan University · 2XPENG Robotics

  45. ViSRA: A Video-based Spatial Reasoning Agent for Multi-modal Large Language Models

    May 11, 2026Tingshu Mou, Jiabo He, Renying Wang +53D Spatial ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Fudan University · BCAI · Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (BCAI) +1

  46. Distilling 3D Spatial Reasoning into a Lightweight Vision-Language Model with CoT

    May 10, 2026Alaa Asfour, Christopher Indris, Leihan Chen +23D Spatial ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

  47. Do multimodal models imagine electric sheep?

    May 10, 2026Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Carl Vondrick, Raja Giryes +2Visual ReasoningMultimodal Model

    Apple

  48. SpaceMind++: Toward Allocentric Cognitive Maps for Spatially Grounded Video MLLMs

    May 10, 2026Bo Gu, Zhikang Zhang, Zizhuang Wei +33D Spatial ReasoningVideo Multimodal Large Language Models

    1Fudan University · 2Huawei · 3Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  49. Uncovering and Shaping the Latent Representation of 3D Scene Topology in Vision-Language Models

    May 8, 2026Haoming Wang, Wei Gao3D Spatial Reasoning3D Representation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261

  50. R3^3L: Reasoning 3D Layouts from Relative Spatial Relations

    May 7, 2026Zhifeng Gu, Yuqi Wang, Bing Wang3D Layout Generation3D Spatial Reasoning

    Spatial Intelligence Group, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

  51. ConsisVLA-4D: Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

    May 6, 2026Wei Li, Jizhihui Liu, Li Yixing +3Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions3D Spatial Reasoning

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · State Key Laboratory of Mobile Network and Mobile Multimedia Technology, ZTE, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  52. SpatialGrammar: A Domain-Specific Language for LLM-Based 3D Indoor Scene Generation

    Apr 30, 2026Song Tang, Kaiyong Zhao, Yuliang Li +53D Scene Generation3D Layout Generation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · XGRIDS · Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

  53. SpatialFusion: Endowing Unified Image Generation with Intrinsic 3D Geometric Awareness

    Apr 29, 2026Haiyi Qiu, Kaihang Pan, Jiacheng Li +33D Generative Models3D Spatial Reasoning

    Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China · HiThink Research Hangzhou, China

  54. CAPruner: Conceptual-Adjacent Scene Graph Pruner for Enhancing 3D Spatial Reasoning of Large Language Models

    Apr 21, 2026Shengli Zhou, Xiangchen Wang, Guanhua Chen +13D Spatial ReasoningSpatio-Temporal Scene Graphs

    1Southern University of Science and Technology · 2SpatialTemporal AI

  55. XEmbodied: A Foundation Model with Enhanced Geometric and Physical Cues for Large-Scale Embodied Environments

    Apr 20, 2026Kangan Qian, ChuChu Xie, Yang Zhong +13EmbodiedRecent Vision-Language Models

    Tsinghua University · Automotive and Robotics, Xiaomi Corporation · National University of Singapore +2

  56. BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird's-Eye View Representations

    Mar 6, 2026Thomas Monninger, Shaoyuan Xie, Qi Alfred Chen +1Autonomous DrivingBird'S-Eye View

    Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, San Jose, USA · University of California, Irvine, USA

  57. StemVLA:An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model with Future 3D Spatial Geometry Knowledge and 4D Historical Representation

    Feb 27, 2026Jiasong Xiao, Yutao She, Kai Li +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsAction Prediction

    Image Processing Ricoh Software Research Center (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Beijing, China · Guanghua School of Management Peking University Beijing, China · Image Processing Beijing YZH Engineering Technology Co., Ltd Beijing, China +2

  58. Egocentric Bias in Vision-Language Models

    Feb 10, 2026Maijunxian Wang, Yijiang Li, Bingyang Wang +6Egocentric Vision3D Spatial Reasoning

    Cognitive Science Program, University of California, Berkeley · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego · School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University +6

  59. SpaceDrive: Infusing Spatial Awareness into VLM-based Autonomous Driving

    Dec 11, 2025Peizheng Li, Zhenghao Zhang, David Holtz +6Autonomous Driving3D Spatial Reasoning

    Mercedes-Benz AG · TU Munich · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology +4

  60. Let Language Constrain Geometry: Vision-Language Models as Semantic and Spatial Critics for 3D Generation

    Nov 18, 2025Weimin Bai, Yubo Li, Weijian Luo +43D Generative Models3D Spatial Reasoning

    Peking University, Beijing · hi-lab, Xiaohongshu Inc. · MMLab, CUHK +1