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  1. AVIS: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language Models

    Jun 10, 2026Ahmadreza Jeddi, Minh Ngoc Le, Amirhossein Kazerouni +8Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  2. Where Does the Answer Come From? Benchmarking View-Level Visual Evidence Identification in Multi-View MLLMs for Autonomous Driving

    Jun 8, 2026Yimu Wang, Yee Man Choi, Barry Zhang +3Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsVisual Evidence

  3. Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text

    Jun 8, 2026Yutong Bian, Dongjie Cheng, Heming Xia +2Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

  4. PhysScene: A Scene Graph Dataset for Scientific Visual Reasoning in Physics Experiments

    Jun 8, 2026Minghao Zou, Qingtian Zeng, Shangkun Liu +5Hierarchical 3D Scene GraphsVisual Reasoning

  5. Zero-Shot Semantic Re-Identification for Autonomous Driving: A VLM Baseline Study

    Jun 8, 2026Eduardo Borges, Manuel Abreu, Luís Garrote +1Re-IdentificationAutonomous Driving

  6. Visual Para-Thinker++: A Single-Policy Multi-Agent Framework for Visual Reasoning

    Jun 8, 2026Haoran Xu, Hongyu Wang, Yifei Gao +4Multi-Agent ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  7. MAGIS: Evidence-Based Multi-Agent Reasoning for Interpretable Strabismus Clinical Decision-Making

    Jun 8, 2026Xikai Tang, Yifan Wang, Jiafan Zhuang +12OphthalmologyDiagnostic Benchmark

  8. Symbolic and Abstractive Reasoning with Complex Visual Queries

    Jun 8, 2026Yichi Zhang, Jingdian Lu, Zhuo Chen +4Visual ReasoningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  9. See More, Think Deeper: Query-Expanded Visual Evidence and Answer-Clue Guided Reflection for Long Video Understanding

    Jun 8, 2026Shuning Wang, Zhiheng Wu, YiNuo Lu +6Video UnderstandingVisual Evidence

  10. Are Reasoning Vision-Language Models Robust to Semantic Visual Distractions?

    Jun 8, 2026Yizheng Sun, Mochuan Zhan, Yanan Ma +10Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  11. Thinking Without Images: Internalizing Visual Manipulation with On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Jun 7, 2026Yishuo Cai, Jiahui Liu, Yuanxin Liu +9Visual ReasoningFine-Grained Perception

  12. PhysGraph: A Physics-aware 3D Scene Graph for Perception and Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Haoyu Li, Aaron Thomas, Shuyan Zhou +13D Scene Graphs3D Representation

  13. Trustworthy Visual Predicates for Robust Manipulation Understanding under Degradation

    Jun 6, 2026Fatemeh ZiaeetabarRobust ManipulationVisual Reasoning

  14. DyCo-RL: Dynamic Cross-Modal Coordination for Visual Reasoning

    Jun 6, 2026Hangui Lin, Yan Shu, Zhengyang Liang +6Multimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  15. The Cross-Architecture Substrate: A Domain-Transcendent, Calibration-Surviving Geometric Invariant of Modern Vision Encoders

    Jun 5, 2026Yousef RadwanVision EncodersCross-Architecture Generalization

  16. VisualFLIP: Do Predictions Depend on Task-Critical Visual Evidence in Multimodal Reasoning?

    Jun 5, 2026Didi Zhu, Changrui Chen, Stefanos Zafeiriou +1Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksMultimodal Reasoning

  17. TEVI: Text-Conditioned Editing of Visual Representations via Sparse Autoencoders for Improved Vision-Language Alignment

    Jun 5, 2026Sweta Mahajan, Sukrut Rao, Jiahao Xie +2Visual EmbeddingsVideo Captioning

  18. VideoSEG-O3: A Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning Framework for Reasoning Video Object Segmentation

    Jun 5, 2026Ming Dai, Sen Yang, Boqiang Duan +4Video Object SegmentationVisual Reasoning

  19. Inside the Visual Mind: Neuroscience-Motivated Concept Circuits for Interpreting and Steering Vision Transformers

    Jun 4, 2026Tang Li, Yanlin Chen, Mengmeng Ma +1Self-Supervised Vision TransformersVision Transformer

  20. Imagine Before You Predict: Interleaved Latent Visual Reasoning for Video Event Prediction

    Jun 4, 2026Tianxiang Jiang, Linquan Wu, Sheng Xia +5Future Video PredictionLatent Visual Reasoning

  21. Cosine Misleads: Auxiliary Losses Reshape Vision Language Models, Not Their Latents

    Jun 4, 2026XiuYu Zhang, Junfeng Fang, Zhenkai LiangLarge Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  22. VTI-CoT: Visual-Textual Interleaved Chain of Thought for Video Reasoning

    Jun 4, 2026Shufan Zhang, Ziyue Lin, Bairun Wang +4Video UnderstandingVisual Reasoning

  23. Seeing Time: Benchmarking Chronological Reasoning and Shortcut Biases in Vision-Language Models

    Jun 4, 2026Haoyu Zhou, Qing Qing, Caichong Li +6Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  24. UltraVR: A Diagnostic Ultra-Resolution Image-VQA Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Reasoning

    Jun 4, 2026Gexin Huang, Yanting Yang, Myeongkyun Kang +6Visual ReasoningMultimodal Reasoning Benchmarks

  25. Would you still call this Dax? Novel Visual References in VLMs and Humans

    Jun 3, 2026Ada Defne Tür, Gaurav Kamath, Joyce Chai +2Visual ContextOpen-Ended Responses

  26. Evaluating Reasoning Fidelity in Visual Text Generation

    Jun 3, 2026Jiajun Hong, Jiawei ZhouText-To-ImageVisual Reasoning

  27. Answer Self-Consistency with Margin-Triggered Question Re-Arbitration for the CVPR 2026 VidLLMs Challenge

    Jun 3, 2026Tomoya Miyazawa, Hiroyasu OkunoVisual ReasoningCvpr

  28. UniCanvas: A Diffusion-base Unified Model for Text-in-Image Joint Generation

    Jun 2, 2026Zeyuan Yang, Hao-Wei Chen, Xueyang Yu +5Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsMultimodal Generation

  29. VAMPS: Visual-Assisted Mathematical Problem Solving Benchmark

    Jun 2, 2026Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam, Shayan Vassef, Mohammadreza Bakhtiari +5Visual ReasoningMultimodal Benchmarks

  30. Entropy Is Not Enough: Unlocking Effective Reinforcement Learning for Visual Reasoning via Vision-Anchored Token Selection

    Jun 2, 2026Senjie Jin, Peixin Wang, Boyang Liu +8Visual ReasoningVisual Tokens

  31. Enginuity: A Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding of Engineering Diagrams

    Jun 2, 2026Abhishek Kumar, Isha Motiyani, Tilak Kasturi +3DiagramsDiagnostic Benchmark

  32. Steer Where It Matters: Token-Level Visual-Sensitivity Steering for LVLMs Hallucination Mitigation

    Jun 2, 2026Ruipeng Zhang, Zhihao Li, C. L. Philip Chen +1Large Language Model HallucinationLarge Vision Language Models

  33. SagaQA: A Multi-hop Reasoning Benchmark for Long-form Narrative Understanding in TV Series

    Jun 2, 2026Galann Pennec, Zhengyuan Liu, Nicholas Asher +2Multimodal ReasoningMulti-Hop Reasoning

  34. VistaHop: Benchmarking Multi-hop Visual Reasoning for Visual DeepSearch

    Jun 2, 2026Hang He, Chuhuai Yue, Chengqi Dong +6Multiple Vision TasksVisual Reasoning

  35. Disentangling Visual and Factual Correctness in LVLMs' Visualization Literacy

    Jun 2, 2026Soohyun Lee, Jaeyoung Kim, Seokhyeon Park +5Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  36. Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi +6Multimodal ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

  37. Consistent Yet Wrong: Evidence Insensitivity in Spatial Vision-Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026S Divakar Bhat, Toshihiko YamasakiSpatial ReasoningCross-View

  38. See Less, Specify More: Visual Evidence Budgets for Generalizable VLAs

    Jun 1, 2026Yueh-Hua Wu, Tatsuya Matsushima, Kei OtaVision-Language-Action ModelsVisual Evidence

  39. Mitigating Perceptual Judgment Bias in Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge via Perceptual Perturbation and Reward Modeling

    Jun 1, 2026Seojeong Park, Jiho Choi, Junyong Kang +3Llm-As-A-JudgePerceptual Understanding

  40. VLMs are Good Teachers for Video Reasoning via Adaptive Test-Time Optimization

    Jun 1, 2026Junhao Cheng, Liang Hou, Tianxiong Zhong +4Visual ReasoningTeacher

  41. Question-Aware Evidence Ledgers for Video Relational Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yilin Ou, Mengshi Qi, Huadong MaVideo Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

  42. Training-Free Composed Video Retrieval via Visual Representation-Guided Video-LLM Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yang Liu, Qianqian Xu, Peisong Wen +2Video UnderstandingVideos

  43. CORE-MTL: Rethinking Gradient Balancing via Causal Orthogonal Representations

    Jun 1, 2026Chengfeng Wu, Tao Zou, Yanru Wu +1Multi--Task LearningCausal Representation Learning

  44. Closing the Alignment-Maturity Gap in Federated Prototype Learning

    Jun 1, 2026Mario Casado-Diez, Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Verónica Bolón-Canedo +1Heterogeneous Federated LearningFederated Learning

  45. TRON: Targeted Rule-Verifiable Online Environments for Visual Reasoning RL

    Jun 1, 2026Tianze Yang, Yucheng Shi, Ruitong Sun +3Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

  46. Beyond Visual Memory: Mechanistic Diagnostics of Latent Visual Reasoning

    May 31, 2026Garvin Guo, Yu Chen, Xiang Wang +4Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Memory

  47. Mitigating Manifold Departure: Uncertainty-Aware Subspace Rectification for Trustworthy MLLM Decoding

    May 31, 2026Yingxuan Zhuang, Jingxiao Yang, Miao Pan +7Large Language Model HallucinationHallucination Mitigation

  48. Temporal Evidence Routing with Structured Visual Evidence for TimeLogicQA

    May 31, 2026Yuyang Sun, Yongliang Wu, Xingyu Zhu +8Video Question AnsweringVisual Evidence

  49. DeepLatent: Think with Images via Parallel Latent Visual Reasoning

    May 30, 2026Dongchen Lu, Zhimo Li, Mao Shu +1Latent Visual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  50. Detect Before You Leap: Mirage Detection in Vision-Language Models

    May 29, 2026Md. Shaown Miah, S. M. Taiabul Haque, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +1Knowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringFew-Shot Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Adaptation

  51. Representation Forcing for Bottleneck-Free Unified Multimodal Models

    May 29, 2026Yuqing Wang, Zhijie Lin, Ceyuan Yang +10Unified Multimodal ModelsGenerative Models

  52. Can You Trust What You See? Human and AI Detection of Synthetic Legal Evidence

    May 29, 2026Jinzhe Tan, Ali Ekber Cinar, Karim BenyekhlefArtificial Intelligence DetectionLegal Domain

  53. VisionPulse: Dynamic Visual Sparsity for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

    May 29, 2026Hengbo Xu, Shengjie Jin, Yanbiao Ma +1Multimodal ReasoningVisual Token Pruning

  54. Diagnosing Failure Modes of Shared-State Collaboration in Resource-Constrained Visual Agents

    May 29, 2026Yunpeng ZhouCollaborationReasoning Failures

  55. A Visually Impaired Assistance Benchmark for VLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation

    May 29, 2026Yi Zhao, Siqi Wang, Zhe Hu +2Llm-As-A-JudgeBlind Spots

  56. Benchmarking and Enhancing Text-to-Image Models for Generating Visual Representations in Early Arithmetic Education

    May 29, 2026Junling Wang, Boqi Chen, Heejin Do +3Text-To-ImageVisual Representations

  57. Does Visual Information Play a Decisive Role in Vision-Language-Action Model Driving Behavior?

    May 29, 2026Jingtao He, Hongliang Lu, Xiaoyun Qiu +2Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

  58. PRISM: Progressive Reasoning through Iterative Slot Memory for Vision

    May 29, 2026Ziyu Wang, Shuangpeng Han, Mengmi ZhangVisual Representations

  59. Attend to Evidence: Evidence-Anchored Spatial Attention Supervision for Multimodal RLVR

    May 29, 2026Ruina Hu, Chen Wang, Lai Wei +5Visual EvidenceMultimodal Reasoning Benchmarks

  60. What Makes LVLMs Hallucinate Less? Unveiling the Architectural Factors Behind Hallucination Robustness

    May 29, 2026Yusheng He, Jizhe Zhou, Xia Du +3Large Language Model HallucinationLarge Vision Language Models