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  1. Information-Regularized Attention for Visual-Centric Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Guohao Sun, Xiaofang Wang, Yash Patel +3Large Vision Language ModelsExplicit Visual Grounding

  2. PixelEyes: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning for Pinpoint Visual Evidence Seeking

    Jun 30, 2026Dengxian Gong, Yuanzheng Wu, Haobo Yuan +11Multiple Vision TasksVisual Reasoning

  3. CoLT: Teaching Multi-Modal Models to Think with Chain of Latent Thoughts

    Jun 30, 2026Lianyu Hu, Shengqian Qin, Zeqin Liao +4Efficient Latent ReasoningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  4. Making Sense of Touch from the Child's View for Contrastive Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Max Whitton, Zecheng Wang, Puchen Liu +12Tactile PerceptionSensorimotor Experience

  5. Bridging Video Understanding and Generation in a Unified Framework

    Jun 30, 2026Yuqi Wang, Runyi Li, Ruoyu Feng +3Video UnderstandingVisual Representations

  6. VisReflect: Latent Visual Reflection for Fine-Grained Perception in Long Visual Context

    Jun 29, 2026Xiaoqian Shen, Mohamed ElhoseinyLarge Vision Language ModelsFine-Grained Perception

  7. From Accuracy to Visual Dependence: Auditing and Filtering Modality Collapse in Traffic VideoQA

    Jun 29, 2026Sena Korkut, María Alejandra Bravo Sarmiento, Sanghwan Kim +1Video Question AnsweringVisual Evidence

  8. Before Thinking, Learn to Decide: Proactive Routing for Efficient Visual Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Yinan Zhou, Haokun Lin, Yichen Wu +7Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

  9. SHOVIR: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision Shortcut Learning in Radiology Report Generation

    Jun 29, 2026Filippo Ruffini, Marco Salmé, Rosa Sicilia +2Radiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

  10. Latent Noise Mask for Reducing Visual Redundancy in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jun 29, 2026Kai Jiang, Ruishu Zhu, Siqi Huang +2Latent Visual ReasoningMultimodal Reasoning

  11. H-GRPO: Permutation-Invariant Reinforcement Learning for Grounded Visual Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Eric Peh, Debaditya Roy, Basura FernandoExplicit Visual GroundingLarge Vision Language Models

  12. Clearer Sight, Fewer Lies: Oriented Pickup Preference Optimization for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation

    Jun 29, 2026Xin Zou, Haolin Deng, Yibo Yan +5Large Language Model HallucinationMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  13. TacGen: Touch Is a Necessary Dimension of Physical-World Representation -- Addressing Tactile Data Scarcity with Scalable Vision-to-Touch Alignment and Generation

    Jun 28, 2026Wanghao Ye, Aarosh Das, Sihan Chen +19Visual RepresentationsHuman Visual Cortex

  14. COCOLogic-V2: Identifying Logical Inconsistencies via Truly Hard-Negatives

    Jun 26, 2026David Steinmann, Antonia Wüst, Kristian Kersting +1Visual ReasoningInterpretable Models

  15. Latent Visual Diffusion Reasoning with Monte Carlo Tree Search

    Jun 26, 2026Xirui Teng, Nan Xi, Junsong YuanLatent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  16. Understanding How MLLMs Describe Artworks Using Token Activation Maps

    Jun 26, 2026Nicola Fanelli, Pasquale De Marinis, Raffaele Scaringi +3Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Tokens

  17. Reflect-R1: Evidence-Driven Reflection for Self-Correction in Long Video Understanding

    Jun 26, 2026Shuimu Chen, Yuteng Chen, Yuanshen Guan +7Video UnderstandingIterative Self-Correction

  18. Video-MME-Logical: A Controlled Diagnostic Benchmark for Video Temporal-Logical Reasoning

    Jun 26, 2026Hohin Kwan, Hongyu Li, Ray Zhang +5Reasoning BenchmarkVisual Evidence

  19. LISA: Likelihood Score Alignment for Visual-condition Controllable Generation

    Jun 25, 2026Yanghao Wang, Hongxu Chen, Jiazhen Liu +4High-Fidelity Conditional GenerationRegularization Techniques

  20. Einstein World Models

    Jun 25, 2026Munachiso Samuel Nwadike, Zangir Iklassov, Ali Mekky +2Visual ReasoningCounterfactual Reasoning

  21. Confidence-Aware Tool Orchestration for Robust Video Understanding

    Jun 25, 2026Yangfan He, Yujin Choi, Jaehong YoonFine-Grained Video UnderstandingAgentic Video Generation

  22. ReasonCLIP-58M: Visually Grounded Commonsense Reasoning Supervision for CLIP

    Jun 25, 2026Sicheng Zhang, Muzammal Naseer, Binzhu Xie +5Step-Level SupervisionVisual Representations

  23. SA-LIVO: Efficient LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Odometry with Subspace-Aware Degeneracy Handling

    Jun 24, 2026Yinong Cao, Xin He, Yuwei Chen +3Robust Lidar-Inertial OdometryVision Sensors

  24. FeVOS: Foresight Expression Video Object Segmentation

    Jun 24, 2026Kehan Lan, Kaining Ying, Henghui DingVideo Object SegmentationVisual Reasoning

  25. V-Zero: Answer-Label-Free On-Policy Distillation with Contrastive Evidence Gating for Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning

    Jun 24, 2026Haoxiang Sun, Zhihang Yi, Langxuan Deng +6Visual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  26. IV-CoT: Implicit Visual Chain-of-Thought for Structure-Aware Text-to-Image Generation

    Jun 23, 2026Zixuan Li, Haokun Lin, Yicheng Xiao +10Text-To-ImageLatent Visual Reasoning

  27. Latent Visual States for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

    Jun 23, 2026Xiuwei Chen, Wentao Hu, Yongxin Wang +8Latent Visual ReasoningMultimodal Reasoning

  28. VeriEvol: Scaling Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning via Verifiable Evol-Instruct

    Jun 22, 2026Haoling Li, Kai Zheng, Jie Wu +4Mathematical ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  29. Faithful Grounded Visual Reasoning via Learned Proxy-Tokens

    Jun 22, 2026Tom Hodemon, Mohamed Chaouch, Aboubacar Tuo +1Explicit Visual GroundingVisual Reasoning

  30. VideoLatent: Video-Language Learning via Latent Self-Forcing

    Jun 22, 2026Zi-Yuan Hu, Zicong Tang, Shijia Huang +3Video UnderstandingLatent Visual Reasoning

  31. Modular Diffusion Models for Structured Visual Recognition

    Jun 21, 2026Siddhesh Khandelwal, Björn Ommer, Leonid SigalObject DetectionVisual Reasoning

  32. Gold Points Sniper: Self-guided Visual Reasoning in VLM for Fine-grained Action Understanding

    Jun 21, 2026Haodi Liu, Xinhang Yang, Kunda Yan +3Fine-Grained ActionsOpen-Vocabulary Action Recognition

  33. EventVLA: Event-Driven Visual Evidence Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Jun 18, 2026Ganlin Yang, Zhangzheng Tu, Yuqiang Yang +10Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionVisual Memory

  34. The Hidden Evolution of Disguised Visual Context inside the VLM

    Jun 18, 2026Wish Suharitdamrong, Tony Alex, Muhammad Awais +1Visual TokensLarge Vision Language Models

  35. Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings for Controllable and Generalizable Perception

    Jun 17, 2026Chengzhi Mao, Xudong Lin, Wen-Sheng ChuLarge Vision Language ModelsVision Encoders

  36. Visual-OPSD: Cross-Modal On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Unified Multimodal Reasoning

    Jun 17, 2026Pengyu Li, Zhitao Gao, Lingling Zhang +5Multimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  37. From Bounding Boxes to Visual Reasoning: An On-Policy Data Annotation Tool for Vision-Language Models

    Jun 17, 2026Like Zhang, Runliang Niu, Shiqi Wang +5Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  38. Hallucination Detection and Correction in Medical VLMs via Counter-Evidence Verification

    Jun 17, 2026Nan Zhou, Ke Zou, Meng Liu +5Robust Hallucination DetectionHallucination Detection

  39. See First, Answer Later: Visual Evidence Pre-Alignment via Sufficiency-Driven RL

    Jun 16, 2026Yilian Liu, Sicong Leng, Guoshun Nan +7Visual EvidenceGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  40. Gen-VCoT: Generative Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Diffusion-Based RGB Intermediate Representations

    Jun 15, 2026Zhiqiang Zhou, Junliang Dai, Xu lingVisual ReasoningEfficient Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning

  41. Look Again Before You Abstain:Budgeted Conformal Evidence Acquisition for Reliable Vision-Language Model

    Jun 15, 2026Jian Xu, Delu Zeng, John Paisley +1Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Evidence

  42. REFLEX: Reflective Evolution from LLM Experience

    Jun 15, 2026Pan WangLlm-DrivenMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  43. Thinking with Visual Grounding

    Jun 15, 2026Junkai Zhang, Yihe Deng, Kai-Wei Chang +1Explicit Visual GroundingVisual Reasoning

  44. Mind the Gap: Diagnosing Constraint Discovery Failures in Text-in-Image Editing

    Jun 14, 2026Rui GuiMultimodal ReasoningImage-Text Pairs

  45. Mitigating Visual Hallucinations in Multimodal Systems through Retrieval-Augmented Reliability-Aware Inference

    Jun 14, 2026Pratheswaran Hariharan, Haiping Xu, Donghui YanMultimodal LearningHallucinations

  46. Self-Questioning Vision-Language Models: Reinforcement Learning for Compositional Visual Reasoning

    Jun 14, 2026Saraswathy AmjithLarge Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  47. XPASS-Vis: A Dataset for Cross-Domain Personalized Image Aesthetic Assessment

    Jun 14, 2026Takato Hayashi, Hiroaki Takahara, Candy Olivia Mawalim +4AestheticsLarge Image Datasets

  48. Forced Deferral: Manipulating Routing Decisions in Multimodal LLM Cascades

    Jun 13, 2026Zhongye Liu, Yaopei Zeng, Yurui Chang +1Language Model Evasion AttacksMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  49. Visual-Seeker: Towards Visual-Native Multimodal Agentic Search via Active Visual Reasoning

    Jun 13, 2026Zhengbo Zhang, Changtao Miao, Jinbo Su +10Multimodal Search AgentsVisual Reasoning

  50. S2^2COPE: Self-Supervised Concept Discovery via Preference Learning

    Jun 12, 2026Shilong Xiang, Zirui Zhang, Chengzhi MaoVision-LanguageVisual Context

  51. Position: The Systemic Lack of Agency in Visual Reasoning

    Jun 11, 2026Yizhao Huang, Haoyang Chen, Shiqin Wang +6Visual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  52. Detecting Explanatory Insufficiency in Learned Representations: A Framework for Representational Vigilance

    Jun 11, 2026Jacques Raynal, Pierre Slangen, Elsa Raynal +1Representation LearningVisual Representations

  53. Iterative Visual Thinking and the Self-Correction Mirage in VLM Grounding

    Jun 11, 2026Animesh Tripathy, Aswanth KrishnanExplicit Visual GroundingVision-Language Model Grounding

  54. Bridging Modal Isolation in Interleaved Thinking: Supervising Modality Transitions via Stepwise Reinforcement

    Jun 11, 2026Tingyu Li, Le Zhou, Siyuan Li +5Cross-Modal LearningVisual Evidence

  55. Language-Guided Abstraction for Visual Reasoning

    Jun 11, 2026Xu-Jing Ye, Yuan-Gen Wang, Ruping WangVisual ReasoningAbstraction

  56. Bridging the Modality Gap in Forensic Image Retrieval

    Jun 10, 2026Ricardo González-Gazapo, Annette Morales-González, Yoanna Martínez-Díaz +2Multimodal RetrievalDigital Forensics

  57. Last But Not Least: Boundary Attention CalibratiON for Multimodal KV Cache Compression

    Jun 10, 2026Tianhao Chen, Yuheng Wu, Kelu Yao +3Key-Value Cache CompressionMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  58. Plan-and-Verify Video Reward Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Grounding

    Jun 10, 2026Hyomin Kim, Junghye Kim, Joanie Hayoun Chung +4Video Temporal GroundingText-To-Video Models

  59. MultiToP: Learning to Patch Visual Tokens to Mitigate Hallucinations in Video Large Multimodal Models

    Jun 10, 2026Yuansheng Gao, Wenbin Xing, Jiahao Yuan +4Video Multimodal Large Language ModelsVisual Tokens

  60. From Prompts to Tokens: Internalizing Causal Supervision in Vision-Language Model for Multi-Image Causal Reasoning

    Jun 10, 2026Haoping Yu, Yuanxi Li, Jing MaLarge Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning