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  1. MarineEVT: Advancing Event-Centric Marine Video Understanding via Visual Tool Reasoning

    Jul 27, 2026Tuan-An To, Yuk-Kwan Wong, Tuan-Anh Vu +2Video UnderstandingLarge Vision Language Models

  2. PathScale-R1: Cross-scale Reasoning for Pathological Image Analysis

    Jul 26, 2026Chi Phan, Tianyi Zhang, Yufeng Wu +7PathologyMedical Visual Question Answering

  3. VIPER: Visual In-Context Physics Reasoning for Physically Plausible Video Generation

    Jul 26, 2026Tianxiao Chen, Hanmo Chen, Huajin Chen +3Large-Scale Video Generation ModelsVisual Reasoning

  4. Robot Learning to Communicate through Projected Visual Abstractions

    Jul 24, 2026Danyang Yan, Boyuan Wang, Jiaxun Liu +1Robot SystemsMotion Imitation

  5. Be Consistent! Enhancing Robust Visual Reasoning in LVLMs with Consistency Constraints

    Jul 23, 2026Liqiang Jing, Xiong Zhou, Siddharth Varia +3Visual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  6. Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Dynamics from Videos

    Jul 23, 2026Lukas Knobel, Andrew Zisserman, Yuki M. AsanoVideo PretrainingVideos

  7. Geo3R: Mitigating Spatial Reasoning Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 23, 2026Mingyu Wang, Weilin Jin, Wenbo Li +3Spatial ReasoningLarge Language Model Hallucination

  8. ENTRAP-VL: A Taxonomic Probe for Dual Contextual Entrainment in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 22, 2026Karan Goyal, Afreen Hossain, Debojyoti Das +1Visual ContextMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  9. VizRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hypergraph Visualization

    Jul 22, 2026Yanbin Wei, Yang Chen, Renling Gan +7Graph-Based Retrieval Augmented GenerationHypergraphs

  10. Trace: A Taxonomy-Guided Environment for Multidomain Visual Reasoning

    Jul 22, 2026Md Tanvirul AlamVisual ReasoningMulti-Domain

  11. Visual Information Extraction from Documents via Classification-Guided Large Vision-Language Models

    Jul 22, 2026Huafu Li, Guo Chen, Jia Xia +5Visual Document RetrievalLarge Vision Language Models

  12. ExpertVerse: A General-Purpose Benchmark for Expert-Level Reasoning in Knowledge-Intensive Visual Synthesis

    Jul 21, 2026Yuan Wang, Yongchao Du, Mengting Chen +4Visual GenerationMultimodal Reasoning Benchmarks

  13. Linguistic Context Recodes Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 21, 2026Brian Song, Michael A. Lepori, Ellie PavlickVisual RepresentationsCross-Modality

  14. Norm or Direction? Decoding Vision Mambas for High-Resolution Vision

    Jul 21, 2026Jin Yu, Juyoun ParkBidirectional MambaVisual Reasoning

  15. Relay-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Multi-Domain Reasoning Chains

    Jul 20, 2026Liam SwayneReasoning BenchmarkBenchmarking Large Language Models

  16. LenGuard-GPC: Length Guarding with Guided-Prompt Consistency for Spatial Reasoning Reinforce Learning

    Jul 19, 2026Xingjian Tao, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai +1Spatial ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  17. Think, Plan, Paint: Layout-Aware Reasoning for Controllable Image Generation in Unified Models

    Jul 17, 2026Junhao Liu, Jian-Wei Zhang, Tao Huang +3Image GenerationMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  18. ToolSciVer: Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification with Visual Tool Augmented Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 17, 2026Binglin Zhou, Peng Shi, Ryo Kamoi +2Verification-Triggered MultimodalScientific Discovery

  19. MM-IssueLoc: A Controlled Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Evidence in Multimodal Repository-Level Issue Localization

    Jul 16, 2026Shaoxiong Zhan, Shi Hu, Boyu Feng +7Multimodal RetrievalVisual Evidence

  20. SIVA-RL: Sensitivity-Invariance Visual Alignment for Multimodal Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Cheng Tang, Junzhi Ning, Min Cen +9Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksReinforcement Learning With Verifiable Reward

  21. Accuracy Without Grounding: Diagnosing Visual Dependency Dissociation in Video LLM Benchmarks

    Jul 14, 2026Jae Joong LeeVisual ContextVisual Grounding

  22. FOLIO: Focused Semantic Memory for Streaming Video Understanding

    Jul 14, 2026Haoyang Fan, Dhruv Parikh, Anvitha Ramachandran +4Video UnderstandingLong-Term Memory

  23. Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning: Pretrain-Finetuning or Joint Training?

    Jul 14, 2026Nusrat Munia, Tyler Ward, Nishat Nayla +2Self-SupervisedSelf-Supervised Representations

  24. UniMedSeg: Unified In-Context Learning for Multi-Paradigm 2D/3D Medical Image Segmentation

    Jul 14, 2026Yunzhou Li, Jiesi Hu, Yanwu Yang +5Medical Image SegmentationIn-Context Learning

  25. UniVR: Thinking in Visual Space for Unified Visual Reasoning

    Jul 14, 2026Zhongwei Ren, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao +5Visual ReasoningUnison

  26. MaxSAT-Based Feedback for Guiding Vision-Language Models in Sudoku

    Jul 14, 2026Pedro Orvalho, Guillem Alenyà, Felip ManyàSatisfiabilityLarge Vision Language Models

  27. IQA-T1: Tool-based Visual Evidence Reasoning for Image Quality Assessment

    Jul 14, 2026Jinjian Wu, Jiaqi Tang, Wei Wei +5Image Quality AssessmentVisual Evidence

  28. Reducing Temporal Redundancy for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Inference

    Jul 14, 2026Yuzhou Wu, Yuxin Zheng, Muchun Niu +6Vision-Language-Action ModelsInference Latency

  29. Bringing Back Rule Induction to Fluid Intelligence Research? An Initial Validation of the ARC-AGI Benchmark in Humans

    Jul 13, 2026Jasmin Thelen, Oliver WilhelmPsychometricsCollective Intelligence

  30. Beyond the Eye: Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Self-Regulated Implicit Visual Tools

    Jul 13, 2026Xiuwei Chen, Quanlin Chen, Wentao Hu +8Latent Visual ReasoningMultimodal Reasoning

  31. Desc++: Efficient Descriptor Enhancement for Data Association in Existing Visual SLAM Systems

    Jul 13, 2026Ting-Wei Ou, Huang-Ting Lin, Kuu-Young YoungOrb-Slam2Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

  32. Structured Evidence Selection for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

    Jul 11, 2026Chenglizhao Chen, Tianxiang Nan, Wen Li +4Video Anomaly UnderstandingAnomaly Detection

  33. Multimodal Scenario Similarity Search for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 10, 2026Tamás Matuszka, András Tamásy, Balázs SzolárNaturalistic Driving DataAutonomous Driving

  34. OmniMapBench: Benchmarking Visual-Centric Reasoning on Diverse Map Documents

    Jul 10, 2026Yang Chen, Yunwen Li, Yufan Shen +6Visual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  35. On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning

    Jul 10, 2026Pulkit Madan, Sanjay Haresh, Reza Ebrahimi +3Visual PerceptionVision Foundation Models

  36. Dive Into the Implicit Biases of Low-rank Vision-language Alignment

    Jul 9, 2026Mingjia Shi, Shuo Wang, Xiaobo Wang +7Vision-Language AlignmentVision-Language

  37. When Thinking Hurts: Epistemic Signals in the Reasoning Chains of Visual Language Models

    Jul 9, 2026Mayank SingalQwen3-Embedding-8BVisual Reasoning

  38. APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts

    Jul 9, 2026Emily Jin, Joy Hsu, Yiqing Xu +3Long-Horizon PlanningPlanning Methods

  39. HIVE: Understanding Post-Hallucination Reasoning in Vision Language Models

    Jul 8, 2026Feng He, Zhenting Wang, Qifan Wang +4Large Vision Language ModelsHallucinations

  40. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

    Jul 8, 2026Arianna Pera, Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy +3Cross-Cultural StudyCultural Knowledge

  41. Bridging Physical Reasoning and Task Generalization via Visual Action Outcome Reasoning Alignment

    Jul 7, 2026Han-Jun Ko, Jr-Jen Chen, Haobo Yuan +4Visual ReasoningAgentic Reasoning

  42. VaseMuseum: Digital Intelligent Museum for Ancient Greek Pottery

    Jul 7, 2026Jiazi Wang, Nonghai Zhang, Qiushi Xie +5Verification-Triggered MultimodalVisual Evidence

  43. UI2App: Benchmarking Visual Interaction Inference in Executable Web Application Generation

    Jul 7, 2026Grace Man Chen, Litao Guo, Yifan Wu +5WebApplication Programming Interfaces

  44. VisTCP: A Visualization Framework to Construct Knowledge-Graph-Based Representation for Traditional Chinese Painting

    Jul 7, 2026Zhiguang Zhou, Fengling Zheng, Miaoxin Hu +9Visual RepresentationsVisual Analytics

  45. Scene Graph Thinking: Reinforcing Structured Visual Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 7, 2026Zhiwei Yang, Yuanchen Wu, Nan Zhang +3Visual ReasoningHierarchical 3D Scene Graphs

  46. GEM-Occ: From Visual Geometry Evidence to Embodied Semantic Occupancy Memory

    Jul 6, 2026Hu Zhu, Bohan Li, Xianda Guo +63D Semantic Occupancy PredictionSemantic Mapping

  47. TimeThink: Reasoning with Time for Video LLMs

    Jul 6, 2026Handong Li, Longteng Guo, Zikang Liu +8Video Temporal GroundingVisual Reasoning

  48. Mask-based Predictive Representations for Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 5, 2026Kai ZhaoSelf-SupervisedDeep Reinforcement Learning

  49. Global Logic and Local Search: Dual-Stream Multimodal In-Context Learning for Verifiable Industrial Anomaly Detection

    Jul 4, 2026Runzhi Deng, Yundi Hu, Yiming Zhong +5Zero-Shot Anomaly DetectionVerification-Triggered Multimodal

  50. OmniTacTune: Policy-Agnostic Real-World RL for Tactile Residual Adaptation of Visual Policies

    Jul 4, 2026Kelin Yu, Haode Zhang, Harish Ravichandar +2TeleoperationVisual Context

  51. XPlainVerse: A Million-Scale Benchmark for Explainable Deepfake Detection

    Jul 3, 2026Abhijeet Narang, Kartik Kuckreja, Shreya Ghosh +3Explainable Deepfake DetectionDeepfake Detection

  52. Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 3, 2026Israfel Salazar, Stella Frank, Dan Oneata +2Visual ContextCorrupted Observations

  53. ProLaViT: Learning Progressive Latent Visual Thoughts in Structured Latent Space

    Jul 3, 2026Peiming Li, Yifan Wang, Xiaotian Zhang +4Latent Visual ReasoningLatent Space

  54. Show Me Examples: Inferring Visual Concepts from Image Sets

    Jul 2, 2026Nick Stracke, Kolja Bauer, Stefan Andreas Baumann +3Visual ContextVisual Reasoning

  55. Transformer Geometry Observatory TGO-II: Representational Similarity Observatory

    Jul 2, 2026Kaustubh Kapil, Kishor P. UplaVision TransformerRepresentation Space

  56. Domain Generalization via Text-Anchored Information Bottleneck

    Jul 2, 2026Eunyi Lyou, Yunjeong Choi, Junho Lee +1Multimodal Domain GeneralizationDomain Generalization

  57. Perceive-to-Reason: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning for Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Hongxing Li, Xiufeng Huang, Dingming Li +11Fine-Grained PerceptionVisual Reasoning

  58. Latent Visual Cache for Video Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Yongheng Zhang, Zhipeng Xu, Hao Wu +4Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  59. Group-Equivariant Poincaré Convolutional Networks

    Jul 1, 2026Aiden Durrant, Rahul Baburajan, Georgios LeontidisExact EquivarianceBatch Normalization

  60. Homer: Understanding Long-form Videos with Hierarchical Memory and Agentic Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Yixin Ji, Fanghua Ye, Juntao Li +5VideosMulti-Hop Reasoning