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Relational Abstractions for Spatial Reasoning with Diffusion Models
Oct 7, 2026Ana Ezquerro, Ozan ÖzdenizciSpatial Reasoning Diffusion Models
Institute of Machine Learning and Neural Computation Graz University of Technology, Austria
Neural Structural Reasoner: A Brain-inspired Architecture for Reasoning over Structured Knowledge
Sep 29, 2026Zixing Jia, Yuhang Pan, Ni JiLink Prediction Relational Reasoning
Beijing Institute for Brain Research, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 102206, China · Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing; Beijing, 102206, China · Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Brain-Machine Interface +1
Who Is Left of Whom? Tracing Spatial Evidence and Role Binding in Relative-Position Reasoning
Sep 28, 2026Yingjin Song, Denis Paperno, Albert GattVisual Spatial Reasoning Relational Reasoning
Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands
ConRAG: Lightweight inference of multi-hop relations
Sep 28, 2026Kilian Bänziger, Sonia Laguna, Markus Kreft +4Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation Relational Reasoning
Agentic Systems Lab ETH Zurich · Agentic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich Norwegian University of Science and Technology
When LLM Agents Fail to Read the Room: ReAdapt for Relational Social Reasoning
Sep 21, 2026Jianzhe Lin, Xiaolin Li, Yunda Liu +2LLM Agent Evaluation Relational Reasoning
MetaAI · Work done at Meta
PAA: The Probabilistic Allen Algebra: A Generative and Complete Probabilistic Extension of Allen's Interval Relations
Sep 17, 2026Julian EggertProbabilistic Logic Symbolic Reasoning
Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany · Honda Research Institute, Carl-Legien-Str. 30, 63073 Offenbach, Germany.
Reversing Arrows in Large Language Models
Aug 4, 2026Sefika Efeoglu, Adrian PaschkeKG Construction LLM Evaluation
Institute of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany · Data Analytic Center (DANA), Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, 10589 Berlin, Germany
SPIRIT: Spatio-temporal Pairwise Relational Modeling of Instrument-Tissue Interactions for Surgical Action Triplet Recognition
Aug 3, 2026Saurav Sharma, Lorenzo Arboit, Nabani Banik +11Domain Generalization Relational Reasoning
University of Strasbourg, CNRS, INSERM, ICube, UMR7357, France · IHU Strasbourg, France · University of Pavia, Italy +6
PluRel-to-RDB-PFN: Schema-Guided Synthetic Relational Pretraining
Jul 31, 2026Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Viswanath GanapathyRelational Foundation Models Synthetic Data Pretraining
SAP Labs, LLC., Palo Alto 94304, United States.
Curriculum Matters: Data-Efficient Relational PFN Pretraining with Synthetic Data
Jul 31, 2026Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Viswanath GanapathySynthetic Data Pretraining Synthetic Data Generation
SAP Labs, LLC. Palo Alto, CA, United States
Latent Bridges for Multi-Table Question Answering
Jun 27, 2026Simone Varriale, Tamara Cucumides, Floris Geerts +1Table QA LLM Grounding
1EURECOM · University of Antwerp
Project Auto-World: Towards Automated Benchmarking of Neural Relational Reasoners
Jun 23, 2026Anirban Das, Joanne Boisson, Irtaza Khalid +2Relational Reasoning Synthetic Benchmark Generation
Cardiff University · University of Pennsylvania
FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory
Jun 13, 2026Siming He, Leo Huang, Adam Lilja +6Visual Spatial Reasoning Relational Reasoning
1UC Berkeley · 2Stanford University
Neuro-Relational Programs: Unifying Queries and Neural Computation over Structured Data
Jun 10, 2026Arie Soeteman, Balder ten Cate, Maurice Funk +3Graph Neural Networks Relational Reasoning
ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands · Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany · ScaDS.AI Center Dresden/Leipzig, Germany +2
Rethinking Embodied Navigation via Relational Inductive Bias
Jun 9, 2026Weitao An, Chenghao Xu, Xu Yang +1Embodied Navigation Relational Reasoning
School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China · School of Information Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
What Makes a Desired Graph for Relational Deep Learning?
Jun 7, 2026Yao Cheng, Siqiang LuoGraph Structure Learning Graph Neural Networks
Nanyang Technological University, College of Computing and Data Science, Singapore.
SubtleMemory: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Relational Memory Discrimination in Long-Horizon AI Agents
Jun 4, 2026Wenxuan Wang, Haoyu Sun, Fukuan Hou +4Persistent Memory for Language Models Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation
Harbin Institute of Technology · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Tongji University +4
OpenRFM: Dissecting Relational In-Context Learning
Jun 3, 2026Zhikai Chen, Junyu Yin, Jialiang Gu +5Relational Foundation Models Synthetic Data Pretraining
Michigan State University · George Mason University · Georgia Institute of Technology +1
Question-Aware Evidence Ledgers for Video Relational Reasoning
Jun 1, 2026Yilin Ou, Mengshi Qi, Huadong MaVisual Spatial Reasoning Relational Reasoning
State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Emergent Ordinal Geometry in Transformers Trained on Local Comparisons
May 31, 2026Nishit SinghLogical Reasoning Neural Representation Geometry
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani India
VisAnalog: A Diagnostic Suite for Visual Concept Transfer on Natural Images
May 22, 2026Zhaonan Li, Kyle R. Chickering, Bangzheng Li +13VLM Evaluation Analogical Reasoning
Arizona State University · Luma AI · UC Davis
A mathematical theory of balancing relational generalization and memorization
May 21, 2026Luke Cheng, Samuel LipplNeural Network Generalization Logical Reasoning
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Columbia University New York, NY, 10027
Expressive Power of Deep Homomorphism Networks over Relational Databases
May 18, 2026Moritz Schönherr, Balder ten Cate, Maurice Funk +3Logical Reasoning Graph Neural Networks
Leipzig University · University of Amsterdam · Technion & RelationalAI
Enhanced and Efficient Reasoning in Large Learning Models
May 13, 2026Leslie G. ValiantRepresentation Learning World Models
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University, Boston, MA 02134
CRISP: Compositional Relations as Invariant Structural Priors for Domain Generalization
May 7, 2026Dat Nguyen, Duc-Duy NguyenRepresentation Learning Visual Representation Learning
Harvard University Basis Research Institute · Hanoi University of Science and Technology
Auto-Relational Reasoning
Apr 29, 2026Ioannis Konstantoulas, Dimosthenis Tsimas, Pavlos Peppas +1Relational Reasoning Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Frequency-guided Multi-level Reasoning for Scene Graph Generation in Video
Apr 19, 2026Chenxing Li, Yiping Duan, Xiaoming TaoLong-Tail Learning Relational Reasoning
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Space Network and Communications · Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Beijing, China +1
FloydNet: A Learning Paradigm for Global Relational Reasoning
Jan 27, 2026Jingcheng Yu, Mingliang Zeng, Qiwei YeGraph Neural Networks Relational Reasoning
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

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Relational Abstractions for Spatial Reasoning with Diffusion Models

Ana Ezquerro, Ozan Özdenizci

Institute of Machine Learning and Neural Computation Graz University of Technology, Austria

Spatial Reasoning Diffusion Models Relational Reasoning Conditional Generative Modeling Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks

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Diffusion models excel at image synthesis, but they remain limited in their ability to reliably satisfy structured spatial reasoning constraints. In conditional data distribution modeling tasks with implicit logical structure, such as puzzles defined by visible clues paired with consistent solutions, state-of-the-art generative models tend to approximate pixel-space distributions without learning the underlying logical rules required for inference. To address this limitation, we present a novel framework for spatial reasoning with diffusion models that leverages unsupervised object discovery and abstractions of object relations. We show that the relational knowledge derived from object-centric representations enriches diffusion models with structural primitives, allowing them to effectively guide the generative representation space during both training and inference, and enabling conditional image generation that satisfies reasoning constraints. Additionally, we introduce a large-scale generative spatial reasoning benchmark with four datasets inspired by human-solvable puzzles. Our results show that relational abstractions significantly improve reasoning capabilities of diffusion models on a variety of complex reasoning tasks, while enabling robust generalization in out-of-distribution settings.

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