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  1. Symmetry-Aware Likelihood-Orbit Aggregation for Selective Left-Right Claim Verification

    Sep 15, 2026Zhouzhi Xiong, Chuxi Zhang, Weizhen He +3Visual Evidence

  2. Navigating Sparse Evidence: Agentic Visual RAG via Explicit Context Selection and Consolidation

    Sep 14, 2026Yucheng Shen, Lingyong Yan, Jiulong Wu +4Visual Evidence

  3. Detecting and Explaining Fake News Short Videos with Multimodal Content and Real-World Evidence

    Sep 14, 2026Yifeng Luo, Yupeng Li, Ming Tang +2Deepfake DetectionVisual Evidence

  4. Beyond Generation and Accuracy: Diagnosing and Enhancing Visual Chain-of-Thought for Geometry Problem Solving

    Sep 11, 2026Zhitong Dong, Jicai Pan, Yingguo Gao +3Visual Reasoning

  5. Vision-language models know more about agriculture than they show and rubric-grounded verifications close the gap

    Sep 8, 2026Earl Ranario, Jared Smith, Lars Lundqvist +2Precision AgricultureVision Encoders

  6. Studying Image Tokenizers as Visual Languages in Unified Multimodal Models

    Sep 8, 2026Siting Li, Zhengyang Wang, Simon Shaolei Du +2Multimodal LearningTokenizer

  7. Concentrate After Imagination: Text-Conditioned Evidence Grounding for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

    Sep 8, 2026Shuaiqi Cheng, Siyu You, Yanbi Wu +3Long Video UnderstandingVisual Evidence

  8. VeriScene: Reconstructing Crime Scenes from Legal Evidence via World-Model Agent

    Sep 8, 2026Kevin Chuanpu Fu, Yongsen Zheng, Zee Kin Yeong +1Digital ForensicsScene Understanding

  9. Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

    Sep 8, 2026Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Grounding

  10. VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment

    Sep 7, 2026Jingxiang Sun, Chao Liao, Zhengxiong Luo +6Vision-Language AlignmentText-To-Image Models

  11. Beyond Retrieval: Progressive Latent Memory Evolution for Streaming Video Understanding

    Sep 3, 2026Hongyu Qu, Guangming Yao, Ling Xing +7StreamingLatent Visual Reasoning

  12. FailBench: How Reliable are VLMs at Judging Robot Task Success?

    Sep 3, 2026Zaruhi Navasardyan, Tatul Danielyan, Hrant DavtyanRobotic ManipulationRobots

  13. VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement

    Sep 2, 2026Wenzhuo Xu, Yuchen Zhu, Chongjian Ge +8VerificationPhysical Plausibility

  14. TempCloze: Can Video-LLMs Identify the Missing Middle?

    Sep 1, 2026Wenqi Pei, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Yilai Liu +4Video Large Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  15. InSight: A Benchmark for Agentic Claim Verification in Interactive Visualizations

    Sep 1, 2026Maeve Hutchinson, Syed Mahbubul Huq, Mohammad Albinhassan +3Visual EvidenceVisual Analytics

  16. Does This Moment Justify the Recommendation? Counterfactual Behavior-Grounded Evidence Retrieval for Personalized Video Recommendation

    Sep 1, 2026Xin LiuVideo Temporal GroundingFine-Grained Video Understanding

  17. RingMoClaw: An Experience-Inspired Multi-Agent Framework for Self-Evolving Research in Remote Sensing

    Sep 1, 2026Kaiyue Kang, Qixuan He, Peijin Wang +9Remote SensingEnd-To-End Agentic System

  18. From Intent to Evidence: Policy-Steered Multi-Strategy Retrieval for Long-Video Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Can Zhang, Baofeng Zhang, Xiaotian Han +5Long-Horizon AgentsVision-Language-Action Policies

  19. LOCI: A Locator-Critic with Refinement Loop

    Aug 31, 2026Walid Bousselham, Mathilde Caron, Arsha Nagrani +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Evidence

  20. CheXGround: Anatomical Region Tokens for Grounded Longitudinal Chest X-ray Interpretation

    Aug 31, 2026Adonay Demewez Gebremedhin, Wessam Shehieb, Sara Alansari +4Chest X-RayChest X-Ray Report Generation

  21. VisER: Visual Evidence and Reliance for Object Hallucination Detection in LVLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +1Hallucination DetectionVisual Evidence

  22. Read the Room, Read the Image: Understanding Indirect Speech Acts in Multimodal Visual Contexts

    Aug 31, 2026Jaehee Kim, Ji Hoon Chung, Seoyoon Park +5Multimodal BenchmarksVisual Context

  23. Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models

    Aug 30, 2026Aditi Sarker, Nazreen Shah, Rafi Ibn Sultan +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsLarge Language Model Hallucination

  24. SVI2LoD3: Agent-Driven Reconstruction of LoD3 Facade Openings in Semantic 3D City Models from Volunteered Street View Imagery using Large Language and Visual Models

    Aug 30, 2026Elmehdi Kanna, Lukas Arzoumanidis, Huynh Duc An Son Nguyen +13D ReconstructionRepresentation-Based Dynamic Reconstruction

  25. ContextBias: Controlled Evaluation of Bias Persistence Under Context Shift in Text-to-Image Models

    Aug 30, 2026Shaghayegh Kolli, Sina Emami, Moreno D'Incà +4Stereotype MitigationText-To-Image Models

  26. Deep Thought Alignment: Trajectory-Level Latent Distillation for Video Reasoning

    Aug 17, 2026Ao Shen, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li +3Latent Visual ReasoningLarge Multimodal Models

  27. Localize, Then Reason: Visual Latent Structural Reasoning for Molecular Properties and Edits

    Aug 13, 2026Xingqiao Lin, Junmei Wang, Haocheng TangLatent Visual ReasoningLocalization

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

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

  29. TRAPSBench: Vision-Language Models Encode but Fail to Express Epistemic Restraint

    Aug 13, 2026Fnu Pramono, John Cai, Sourabh KulkarniVision-Language ReasoningVisual Evidence

  30. Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

    Aug 13, 2026Jakub Pokrywka, Łukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik +3Medical Visual Question AnsweringKnowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

  31. Beyond Visual Evidence: Revealing and Mitigating Relational Privacy Leakage in Document MLLMs

    Aug 13, 2026Beining Xu, Hairui Wang, Jiaxin Wang +2Visual Document RetrievalLarge Multimodal Models

  32. LookBack: Where and How to Score LVLM Responses via Visual Reference Usage

    Aug 12, 2026Beomsik Cho, Jinhyeong Kim, Dongseok Lee +1Vision-Language ReasoningVisual Context

  33. MultiModal Code-Switching: Interleaving Visual Objects into Language for Explicit Object-Level Alignment

    Aug 11, 2026Changhao Xiang, Shangyu Xing, Zhen Wu +2Multimodal PretrainingLarge Multimodal Models

  34. StreamFlow: Dynamic Memory Flows for Streaming Video Understanding

    Aug 11, 2026Muxin Fu, Yifan Zhang, Wentao Zhang +5Long-Video BenchmarksLong Video Understanding

  35. MedPixel: A Unified Pixel-Language Model for Medical Reasoning and Segmentation

    Aug 10, 2026Haoyu Yang, Meixing Shi, Zengjie Chen +5Medical Vision-Language ModelsMedical Image Segmentation

  36. Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

    Aug 10, 2026Jiahao Shao, Yuanbo Yang, Yiyi Liao +3Visual ReasoningPixels

  37. CircuitReason-1k: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Visual-to-Symbolic Reasoning inElectrical Circuits

    Aug 10, 2026Xinqi Yang, Kang An, Tengyue Wang +8CircuitsVisual Reasoning

  38. Verifiably grounded machine interpretation of lunar geology

    Aug 10, 2026Tom Sander, Kay Wohlfarth, Christian WöhlerGeological Semantic UnderstandingLunar Surface

  39. Can Coding Agents Solve Repository-Level Issues with Rendered Code? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representations

    Aug 10, 2026Weijie Liang, Yuanfeng Song, Xing Chen +3Repository-Level Code UnderstandingCoding Agents

  40. Resolution Meets Reduction: Efficient Visual Context for 3D Radiology Report Generation

    Aug 9, 2026Jonathan Suprijadi, Raphael Stock, Moritz Langenberg +10Radiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

  41. UniSpace: Unified Visual Representation and Scalable Multimodal Modeling

    Aug 9, 2026Jinbo Yan, Limeng Qiao, Jie Qin +3Vision EncodersSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

  42. Agentic Visual Reasoning in Whole-Slide Pathology Images via Active Perception

    Aug 9, 2026Jingyun Chen, Fengchun Liu, Linghan Cai +5Whole-Slide Image AnalysisPathology Foundation Models

  43. RobustDefect-LLM: Explainable and Robustness-Aware Industrial Surface Defect Classification with Decision Support and AI-Assisted Reporting

    Aug 9, 2026Nazlıcan Düşünmez, Halûk GümüşkayaDefect DetectionInspection

  44. OpenVisTool: An Open Recipe for Synthesizing Instructive Visual Tool-Use Trajectories

    Aug 9, 2026Changhao Xiang, Shilin Zhang, Zheng Ma +8Visual Reasoning

  45. Three Necessary Principles for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning

    Aug 8, 2026Nikos Giakoumoglou, Paschalis Giakoumoglou, Tania StathakiSelf-Supervised RepresentationsSelf-Supervised Learning

  46. Evidence-RL: Towards Evidence-intensive Visual Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Haojie Huang, Xinlei Yu, Chengming Xu +6Vision-Language Model GroundingVisual Reasoning

  47. Same Attention, Different Truths: Put Logit-Lens over Visual Attention to Detect and Mitigate LVLM Object Hallucination

    Aug 7, 2026Zichuan Wang, Songlin Yang, Bo Peng +4Large Language Model HallucinationVisual Reasoning

  48. Gaze Behavior in Visual World Experiments Can be Modeled With Off-the-shelf Language-Vision Encoders

    Aug 7, 2026Rahul Murali Shankar, Titus von der Malsburg, Sebastian PadóVision EncodersLinguistics

  49. Debias in Text, Believe Your Eyes: Text-Anchored Cross-Modal Transfer for Visual Counter-Commonsense Reasoning

    Aug 7, 2026Chen Ling, Hanqian Li, Dongnan Liu +9Visual Evidence

  50. GraphVerse: A Comprehensive Visual Graph Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 7, 2026Yuanfu Sun, Yuanhang Ren, Kang Li +5Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

  51. The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images

    Aug 6, 2026Zhiheng Wang, Bo Peng, Lai Wei +1Visual EvidenceIllusions

  52. Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs

    Aug 6, 2026Fatemeh Behrad, Tinne Tuytelaars, Johan WagemansVisual RepresentationsComposed Image Retrieval

  53. Seeing Is Not Deciding: Can Multimodal LLMs Act as Effective CEOs?

    Aug 6, 2026Yuyang Dai, Xueqing Peng, Yuxia Wang +2Large Multimodal ModelsVisual Evidence

  54. ChronoVision: Temporal Reasoning via Latent State Reconstruction

    Aug 6, 2026Yifan Shen, Jian Xu, Boyi Li +6Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  55. Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Yuta Kobayashi, Pradyun Ramesh, Muhammad Ahmed Chaudhry +5Chest X-Ray Report GenerationRadiology Report Generation

  56. OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance

    Aug 5, 2026Aniri, Jinhe Bi, Peng Liao +5Large Multimodal ModelsUnsupervised On-Policy Self-Distillation

  57. Visual Representation Matters: Exploiting Temporal Differences in Video-to-Audio Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Zehua Chen, Junyou Wang, Yuxuan Jiang +5Joint Audio-Video GenerationDiffusion Models

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

    Aug 5, 2026Yang Yang, Jiawei Chen, Tairan Chen +1Spatial ReasoningLLM Reasoning Methods

  59. LAVE: Latent Visual Evidence-Enhanced Planning for Video Tool-use Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Zijian Wang, Junnan Zhu, Rongzhen Li +7Agentic Video GenerationVideo Understanding

  60. ComplexityWorld: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Verifiable Visual Decision Making

    Aug 5, 2026Ningxin Pan, Hanyu Li, Yehui TangVisual ContextVisual Perception