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  1. INTCORT: Training-Free Spatial Reasoning Enhancement for Vision-Language Models via Input Transformations and Confidence Routing

    Sep 21, 2026Haoran Sun, Jingqi Xu, Yanhui Li +3Spatial Reasoning

  2. Bridge3D: Enabling Vision-Language-Action Models to See and Act in 3D

    Sep 21, 2026Haoxuan Li, Sixu Yan, Lianghui Zhu +33D Spatial Reasoning

  3. A Qualitative Model for Reasoning about Path and Support

    Sep 17, 2026Abhishek Jaiswal, Zoe FalomirSpatial Reasoning

  4. VABench: Measuring Embodied Spatial Intelligence through Visual Demonstrations, Active Perception, and Metric Control

    Sep 17, 2026Zhongbo Zhang, Jiayi Jin, Yifan Wang +4Embodied Spatial IntelligenceVisuomotor Control

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

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

  6. Assisted Spatial Cognition Through Vision-Language Models

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

  7. Space as an Interventional Invariant: Cross-Modal Predictive Geometry for Stratified Cities and Em-Spaced Intelligence

    Sep 14, 2026Tao Yang, Xuhui Lin, Kunyao Li +1Embodied Spatial IntelligenceUrban Environments

  8. ANASSA: An Agentic AI Orchestration Framework for Spatial Intelligence

    Sep 13, 2026Constantinos Papantoniou, Brian HiltonGeospatialSpatial Reasoning

  9. MindTopo: Can Foundation Models Reason in Topological Space?

    Sep 12, 2026Yunfei Ge, Anbang Liu, Qineng Wang +9Spatial ReasoningTheory-Of-Mind Reasoning

  10. Beyond Visual Quality: Evaluating Physical Consistency under Ego-Motion with EgoGenEval

    Sep 12, 2026Yilin Long, Chenming Zhu, Zitang Gou +2Ego-MotionCamera Control

  11. CoVeR: Coverage-Based Token Pruning for Multi-View 3D Reasoning in VLMs

    Sep 8, 2026Nhat-Tan Bui, Varshini Elangovan, Arun Reddy Anugu +73D Spatial ReasoningVisual Token Pruning

  12. Human-Centric Image Captioning with Subject-Centered Spatial Understanding

    Sep 8, 2026Bozhou Li, Jiahang Zhang, Yue Ding +11Spatial GroundingVideo Captioning

  13. Geometry-Informed Distributed Acoustic Scene Understanding

    Sep 7, 2026Yiyuan Yang, Shitong Xu, Niki Trigoni +1Spatial AudioDirection-Of-Arrival Estimation

  14. MV-STRIDE: Enabling MLLMs to Master Multi-View Spatial Reasoning via Hierarchical Capability Modeling

    Sep 7, 2026Jin Xu, Xiaojian Huang, Zhuodong Luo +6Spatial ReasoningReasoning Paths

  15. 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

  16. Unfold The World: Factorize 4D Properties in Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning

    Sep 3, 2026Yijun Yang, Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li +8Spatial Reasoning4D Generation

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

    Sep 1, 2026Ziyun Qian, Zizhi Chen, Yizhou Liu +33D Layout Generation3D Generative Models

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

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

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

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

  20. Autoregressive Mosaics: Probing 2D Spatial Reasoning in Text-Only Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Ashwin Nedungadi, Stefan Oehmcke, Stefan LüdtkeSpatial ReasoningTraining Language Models

  21. Semantic Radiance Fields as Simulators for Spatial Reasoning in Real-World Scenes

    Aug 13, 2026Nico Heider, Michał Jan Włodarczyk, Katarzyna Wasielewska-Michniewska +5Wireless Radiance FieldSpatial Reasoning

  22. AirForesight: Current-to-Future Spatial Map Imagination with Cross-Space Planning Consistency for UAV-VLN

    Aug 13, 2026Yutong Liu, Xiaojie Li, Mingzhu Xu +1Aerial Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Reasoning

  23. Spatial Memory Agent: Experience-Grounded Procedure Memory for Spatial Intelligence

    Aug 13, 2026Haokai Zhang, Yuhang Ding, Yunshu Zhou +5Spatial ReasoningExplicit Memory

  24. 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

  25. Multi-View Relational Distillation for Spatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models

    Aug 11, 2026Kiet T. Nguyen, Hanbo Shim, Jinwoo Kim +1Spatial ReasoningExplicit Visual Grounding

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

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

  27. Chain of Spatial Thoughts: Modality-Agnostic Spatial Grounding for Vision Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Hunter Schofield, Mohammed Elmahgiubi, Mohammad Mahdavian +4Spatial ReasoningSpatial Grounding

  28. LEGO: Leveled Language Gaussian Splatting

    Aug 10, 2026Yuning Peng, Haiping Wang, Yuan Liu +33D Scene Understanding3D Semantic Segmentation

  29. From Recovery to Drop-off: How Action Post-training Reduces a VLM's Late-Layer Depth Decodability

    Aug 9, 2026Alexander Hackett, Arnaud Denis-Remillard, Axel CassouVision-Language-Action ModelsLarge Vision Language Models

  30. 360CityArena: A Realistic Virtual Urban Navigation Benchmark for Embodied Agents

    Aug 9, 2026Kenta Watanabe, Atsuyuki Miyai, Mizuki Takenawa +2Embodied NavigationUrban Environments

  31. Explore, Map, Remember, Decide: Are Embodied VLMs Ready for Safety-Critical Scenarios?

    Aug 8, 2026Gabriele La Malfa, Nitay Alon, Emanuele La Malfa +2Large Vision Language ModelsSpatial Reasoning

  32. Advantage-Guided Gate: Reshaping Open-Ended Reasoning for Vision-Based Spatial Intelligence

    Aug 8, 2026Ling Lin, Yang Bai, Congcong Zhu +6Spatial ReasoningIntelligence

  33. Self-Evolving Neuro-Symbolic Skills for Tool-Augmented Spatial Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Shi-Yu Tian, Zhuo-Xia Wang, Xuan-Yi Zhu +6Spatial ReasoningNeuro-Symbolic Framework

  34. LMM Modality Transfer: A Pre-requisite for Autonomous GIS Agents

    Aug 7, 2026Ivan Majic, Zexian Huang, Franziska Hübl +5Spatial ReasoningArtificial Intelligence Models

  35. Capek 0.5: An Execution-Centric Vision-Language Model for Embodied Intelligence

    Aug 7, 2026Ying Chen, Weizhen Li, Zhe Hu +7Large Vision Language ModelsExecutable Robot Behavior

  36. Prior-SG: Task and Prior Driven Region Segmentation for Scene Graphs in Arbitrarily-Structured Environments

    Aug 6, 2026Giorgio Tonetti, Laurent Kneip, Abel Gawel +1Hierarchical 3D Scene GraphsDense Semantic Segmentation

  37. GST-Bench: Can VLMs Develop Global Spatial Awareness from Video?

    Aug 6, 2026Qifeng Zhang, Kaixiang Huang, Heng Dong +6Embodied Spatial Intelligence

  38. Disentangling 3D Modeling from Spatial Reasoning

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

  39. Trace, Verify, and Correct: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

    Aug 5, 2026Yang Yang, Jiawei Chen, Tairan Chen +1Spatial ReasoningVisual Evidence

  40. HiSC: Hierarchical Spatial Clustering Token Compression for Efficient 3D Scene Understanding

    Aug 5, 2026Jiuhe Qu, Yingping Liang, Ying Fu3D Scene UnderstandingToken Compression

  41. OmniRouting: A Semantic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Constraint-Aware Spatial Reasoning in PCB Routing

    Aug 5, 2026Taiting Lu, Kaiyuan Lin, Ziwei Dong +18Electronic Design AutomationLabel Constraint Modeling

  42. Qwen-3D: A Generalist 3D Vision-Language Model for Spatial Understanding

    Aug 4, 2026Lucy Lin, Ayush Jain, Yifan Liu +1Video Multimodal Large Language ModelsSpatial Reasoning

  43. MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving

    Aug 3, 2026Ambarish Govindarajulu Kaliamurthi, Kaikai LiuLarge Vision Language ModelsAutonomous Driving

  44. CalibBEV: LiDAR-Camera Calibration via BEV Alignment

    Aug 3, 2026Filippo D'Addeo, Lorenzo Cipelli, Adriano Cardace +3Camera IntrinsicsLidar

  45. SpatioLM: Towards General Physical Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Jing Wu, Jianhua Wu, Jiayi Guan +5Large Vision Language ModelsSpatial Reasoning

  46. SpatialQuery: Benchmarking Geometry-Grounded Multi-Instance Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Hai Nguyen, Tung Vu, Cong TranSpatial ReasoningSpatial Question Answering

  47. GuideGround: VLM-guided Semantic Understanding and Viewpoint-aware Reasoning for 3D Visual Grounding

    Aug 1, 2026Yiwen Wang, Yuyang Deng, Yihao Long +13D Visual GroundingVisual Grounding

  48. SpatialAfford: Teaching Compact VLMs Where to Look and Where to Ground for Affordance

    Aug 1, 2026Yufei Zhang, Chenlu Zhan, Donghui Sun +2AffordancesSpatial Reasoning

  49. SymboUQ: Symbolic Uncertainty Quantification for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs

    Aug 1, 2026Dahai Yu, Lin Jiang, Rongchao Xu +1Spatial ReasoningReasoning Traces

  50. Learning an Interior Layout Policy in a Domain Specific Language Action Space

    Jul 31, 2026Yuhao Lu, Weichen Zhang, Wenyi Xiao +2LayoutsFurniturevla

  51. Distill What RGB Can Recover: Privileged 3D Evidence for RGB-Only Vision-Language Models

    Jul 31, 2026Yanbin Hu, Jin Cui, Jun Ye +43D Scene UnderstandingRed-Green-Blue

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

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

  53. Operationally Guided Placement-Aware Learning for Industrial Online 3D Bin Packing

    Jul 30, 2026Dheeraj Poolavaram, Aanchal Rajesh Chugh, Sebastian DornKnapsack Constraint3D Layout Generation

  54. SpatialCLI: Learning to Reason With Spatial Tools, Then Without Them

    Jul 30, 2026Yang Zhou, Zixuan Huang, Sunzhu Li +10Spatial ReasoningSpatial Question Answering

  55. Explainable and Resource-Efficient Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Decision-Critical Applications

    Jul 29, 2026Piyush Jain, Kousik Dasgupta, Rajarshi Roy +1Spatial ReasoningMultimodal Learning

  56. Visual Credit Audit for Multimodal Spatial Reasoning

    Jul 29, 2026Feixiang Liu, Qiang Qiu, Lanbo Sun +3Visual EvidenceAlgorithm Auditing

  57. CinemaTraj: Composing Atomic Camera Trajectories for 3D Scenes with LLM Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Qianru Li, Xuyang Chen, Erkin Türköz +53D Scenes3D Motion

  58. Rad-JEPA 3D: Radiology Joint-Embedding Predictive Model for 3D Computed Tomography

    Jul 28, 2026Quoc-Huy Trinh, Minh-Van Nguyen, Ulas BagciComputed Tomography DatasetJoint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

  59. FloAff-Kitchen: Bridging Navigation and Manipulation via Canonical and Progressive Floor Affordance Learning

    Jul 27, 2026Ping Zhong, Manling Teng, Tao Wu +3AffordancesManipulation

  60. MetaSpace: Metamorphic Testing for Spatial Cognition in Embodied Agents

    Jul 26, 2026Gengyang Xu, Dongwei Xiao, Yiteng Peng +1Embodied AgentsEmbodied Spatial Intelligence