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  1. What Converges in the Platonic Representation Hypothesis? Structure over Geometry

    Sep 23, 2026Junwon You, Mihyun Jang, Sangwoo Mo +1Visual Representations

  2. Video-HopChain: Multi-Hop Questions and Confidence-Gated Exploration for Video Reasoning Models

    Sep 22, 2026Trung Nguyen Quang, Yuhao Dong, Shuo Sun +4Visual Reasoning

  3. LegendBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Legend Understanding with Counterfactual Interventions

    Sep 21, 2026Xinnuo Zhang, Zhike Tang, Jing Xu +2ChartDiagnostic Benchmark

  4. Training-Adaptive Convolutional Sparse Coding via Information Bottleneck for Robust Visual Representation

    Sep 16, 2026Meng'en Qin, Yinchen Liu, Mingxuan Cui +1Convolutional Neural NetworksInformation Bottleneck

  5. Decodable but Misrouted: Sparse Features Uncover a Readout Gap in Vision-Language Models for Harmful Meme Detection

    Sep 16, 2026Girish A. Koushik, Diptesh Kanojia, Helen TreharneHate SpeechReadout

  6. Visual Compliance via Executable Safety Rule Entailment

    Sep 16, 2026Jisoo Kim, TaeYoon Kwack, Jinwoo Jang +1SafetyVisual Context

  7. Structural Inference under Hidden Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Zhongben Gong, Xiaoqun Wu, Mingyang Zhou +1Structural InferencePartial Observability

  8. EDCT-Bench: Uncovering Faithfulness Gaps in VLMs via Explanation-Driven Counterfactual Testing

    Sep 16, 2026Sihao Ding, Santosh Vasa, Aditi Ramadwar +1Visual EvidenceCounterfactual Reasoning

  9. Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Ziheng Ren, Qian Gao, Jun Fan +3Hallucination MitigationVerification-Triggered Multimodal

  10. Probe-VAD: Ordinal Likelihood Probing for Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection

    Sep 15, 2026Jiawei Gu, Qilin Zhao, Tengkuo Guo +6Video Anomaly UnderstandingAnomaly Score

  11. Intrinsic Robot Rewarding: Reusing VLA Representations for Autonomous Evaluation and Policy Improvement

    Sep 15, 2026Tobias Schaffer, Mohab Elkhayat, Daniela Nicklas +2External Reward ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  12. OPD-Aha: From Linguistic Momentum to Visual Reflection in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 15, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Dawei Li, Yechao Zhang +2Multimodal ReasoningOn-Policy Distillation

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

    Sep 14, 2026Yucheng Shen, Lingyong Yan, Jiulong Wu +4Visual EvidenceKnowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

  14. Circuit-MLLM: Topological Logic-Guided Latent-Space Visual Reasoning for Circuit Schematic Understanding

    Sep 14, 2026Jinyuan Deng, Yuqi Jiang, Wenjing Huang +3Mllm-BasedCircuits

  15. Long-to-Short Video Evidence Reasoning for Grounded Question Answering

    Sep 14, 2026Kaiyan Chen, Junbin Xiao, Xun YangVideo UnderstandingVisual Reasoning

  16. Omni-Streaming Thinking

    Sep 14, 2026Enjun Du, Siyi Liu, Ziyu Zheng +4Omni-ModalAudio-Visual Reasoning

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

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

  18. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations via Class-Wise Adaptive Modality Fusion and Affective Geometry

    Sep 9, 2026Oriol Marín, Roger Marí, Gloria Haro +1Emotion RecognitionMultimodal Fusion

  19. 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 +2Apple Tree Leaf Disease Segmentation DatasetAgricultural Landscapes

  20. Video-MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Video Understanding

    Sep 8, 2026Zhenxin Qin, Peng Shi, Cong Han +3Video UnderstandingVideos

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

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

  22. "World Knowledge" in the Weights: Reading Concept Circuits of Vision Transformers

    Sep 8, 2026Yanlin Chen, Tang Li, Xi PengVision TransformerVisual Context

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

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

  24. BanglaMemeX: Advancing Cultural Metaphoric Image Interpretation in Bangla with a Multimodal Explainable Dataset

    Sep 7, 2026Md. Sadman Sakib, Zisan Mahmud, Md. Fahim Arefin +1BanglaMetaphors

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

    Sep 7, 2026Jingxiang Sun, Chao Liao, Zhengxiong Luo +6Vision-Language AlignmentMultimodal Alignment

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

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

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

    Sep 3, 2026Zaruhi Navasardyan, Tatul Danielyan, Hrant DavtyanExecutable Robot BehaviorRobot Systems

  28. An Ensemble-Based Self-Taught Learning Approach for Parking Space Classification Under Limited Data

    Sep 3, 2026Lucas de Oliveira Cunha, Joelton Deonei Gotz, Paulo Lisboa de Almeida +1Transfer LearningAnnotations

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

    Sep 2, 2026Wenzhuo Xu, Yuchen Zhu, Chongjian Ge +8VerifierVisual Evidence

  30. Position: Unlabeled IS NOT Equal to No Human Supervision in Visual Learning

    Sep 2, 2026Dong LaoUnlabeled DataUnsupervised

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

    Sep 1, 2026Wenqi Pei, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Yilai Liu +4Visual ReasoningEgocentric Video

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

    Sep 1, 2026Maeve Hutchinson, Syed Mahbubul Huq, Mohammad Albinhassan +3Visual EvidenceNoisy Claim Verification

  33. LOCI: A Locator-Critic with Refinement Loop

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

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

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

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

    Aug 31, 2026Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +1Robust Hallucination DetectionLarge Vision Language Models

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

    Aug 31, 2026Jaehee Kim, Ji Hoon Chung, Seoyoon Park +5Multimodal BenchmarksMultimodal Learning

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

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

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

    Aug 17, 2026Ao Shen, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li +3Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

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

    Aug 13, 2026Xingqiao Lin, Junmei Wang, Haocheng TangVast Chemical SpaceLatent Visual Reasoning

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

    Aug 13, 2026Peng Ling, Yingda Yin, Lingting Zhu +5Visual Token PruningPruning

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

    Aug 13, 2026Fnu Pramono, John Cai, Sourabh KulkarniVisual EvidenceAbstention

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

    Aug 13, 2026Jakub Pokrywka, Łukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik +3Medical Visual Question AnsweringVisual Evidence

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

    Aug 13, 2026Beining Xu, Hairui Wang, Jiaxin Wang +2Efficient Privacy LossMulti-Modal Large Language Models

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

    Aug 12, 2026Beomsik Cho, Jinhyeong Kim, Dongseok Lee +1Large Vision Language ModelsVision-Language

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

    Aug 11, 2026Changhao Xiang, Shangyu Xing, Zhen Wu +2Multimodal PretrainingModality Alignment

  46. Evidence-Grounded Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning and Evaluation Benchmark in Complex Urban Scenes

    Aug 11, 2026Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han +6Multimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

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

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

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

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

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

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

  50. Verifiably grounded machine interpretation of lunar geology

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

  51. 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

  52. Real Data Closes Synthetic-to-Real Gap in Optical Chemical Structure Recognition

    Aug 10, 2026Yani Guan, Dengpan Dong, Zi Wei +4Vast Chemical SpaceSynthetic-To-Real Domain Gap

  53. 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

  54. UniSpace: Unified Visual Representation and Scalable Multimodal Modeling

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

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

    Aug 9, 2026Nazlıcan Düşünmez, Halûk GümüşkayaScalable Defect DetectionInspection

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

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

  57. VectraYX-Vision-1B: A Sub-2B Spanish/LATAM Cybersecurity Vision-Language Model with Structured Visual Reasoning and Native Tool Use

    Aug 9, 2026Juan S. SantillanaLarge Vision Language ModelsLarge Language Model Safety

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

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

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

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

  60. I Seek You in Videos: Identity-Conditioned Queries for Person-Centric Video Reasoning

    Aug 7, 2026Shibo Gao, Chongxiao Wang, Chenglong Huang +10VideosVisual Reasoning