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  1. Towards Self-Explainable Document Visual Question Answering with Chain-of-Explanation Predictions

    May 7, 2026Kjetil Indrehus, Adrian Duric, Changkyu Choi +1Knowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringTextvqa

  2. CRISP: Compositional Relations as Invariant Structural Priors for Domain Generalization

    May 7, 2026Dat Nguyen, Duc-Duy NguyenMultimodal Domain GeneralizationDomain Generalization

  3. TriRelVLA: Triadic Relational Structure for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation

    May 7, 2026Hanyu Zhou, Chuanhao Ma, Gim Hee LeeManipulationVisual Representations

  4. Temporal Functional Circuits: From Spline Plots to Faithful Explanations in KAN Forecasting

    May 7, 2026Naveen MysoreKolmogorov-Arnold NetworksB-Spline

  5. Causal Probing for Internal Visual Representations in Multimodal Large Language Models

    May 7, 2026Zehao Deng, Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu +5Visual RepresentationsMultimodal Learning

  6. ConsisVLA-4D: Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

    May 6, 2026Wei Li, Jizhihui Liu, Li Yixing +33D Spatial Reasoning3D Perception

  7. Deep Dreams Are Made of This: Visualizing Monosemantic Features in Diffusion Models

    May 6, 2026Adam Szokalski, Mateusz ModrzejewskiLatent Visual ReasoningLatent Diffusion Model

  8. Hierarchical Visual Agent: Managing Contexts in Joint Image-Text Space for Advanced Chart Reasoning

    May 5, 2026Qihua Dong, Ruozhen He, Junwen Chen +4ChartVisual Reasoning

  9. UnAC: Adaptive Visual Prompting with Abstraction and Stepwise Checking for Complex Multimodal Reasoning

    May 5, 2026Yifan Wang, Yun FuMultimodal ReasoningUniversal Multimodal

  10. What You Think is What You See: Driving Exploration in VLM Agents via Visual-Linguistic Curiosity

    May 5, 2026Haoxi Li, Qinglin Hou, Jianfei Ma +6Visual ReasoningAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  11. Neuroscience-Inspired Analyses of Visual Interestingness in Multimodal Transformers

    May 5, 2026Mathis Immertreu, Fitim Abdullahu, Thomas Kinfe +3Multimodal TransformersTransformer Attention

  12. KARMA-MV: A Benchmark for Causal Question Answering on Music Videos

    May 5, 2026Archishman Ghosh, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien HerremansAudio-Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  13. Visual Latents Know More Than They Say: Unsilencing Latent Reasoning in MLLMs

    May 4, 2026Xin Zhang, Qiqi Tao, Jiawei Du +2Latent Visual ReasoningEfficient Latent Reasoning

  14. Perceptual Flow Network for Visually Grounded Reasoning

    May 4, 2026Yangfu Li, Yuning Gong, Hongjian Zhan +8Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  15. ProtoFair: Fair Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning via Pseudo-Counterfactual Pairs

    May 3, 2026Marah Halawa, Olaf HellwichFairness-Aware LearningContrastive Loss

  16. Referring Multiple Regions with Large Multimodal Models via Contextual Latent Steering

    May 3, 2026Yun Xing, Hanyuan Liu, Jiahao Nie +1Visual ContextSteering

  17. Act2See: Emergent Active Visual Perception for Video Reasoning

    May 3, 2026Martin Q. Ma, Yuxiao Qu, Aditya Agrawal +4Visual ReasoningVisual Perception

  18. The Perceptual Bandwidth Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models: Active Visual Reasoning via Sequential Experimental Design

    May 2, 2026Anjie Liu, Ziqin Gong, Yan Song +6Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  19. Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts: Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning in Lightweight MLLMs

    May 2, 2026Jingze Wu, Quan Zhang, Hongfei Suo +2Video UnderstandingVisual Reasoning

  20. CEZSAR: A Contrastive Embedding Method for Zero-Shot Action Recognition

    May 1, 2026Valter Estevam, Rayson Laroca, Helio Pedrini +1Open-Vocabulary Action RecognitionContrastive Learning

  21. Semantic Context-aware mOdality fUsion Transformer (SCOUT): A Context-Aware Multimodal Transformer for Concept-Grounded Pathology Report Generation

    May 1, 2026Suryakant Singh, Saarthak Kapse, Joel Saltz +1Whole-Slide ImagesComputational Pathology

  22. Thinking in Text and Images: Interleaved Vision--Language Reasoning Traces for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

    May 1, 2026Jinkun Liu, Haohan Chi, Lingfeng Zhang +6Long-Horizon PlanningVisual Reasoning

  23. DIAGRAMS: A Review Framework for Reasoning-Level Attribution in Diagram QA

    Apr 29, 2026Anirudh Iyengar Kaniyar Narayana Iyengar, Tampu Ravi Kumar, Manan Suri +4DiagramsReasoning Graphs

  24. DV-World: Benchmarking Data Visualization Agents in Real-World Scenarios

    Apr 28, 2026Jinxiang Meng, Shaoping Huang, Fangyu Lei +17Visual AnalyticsReal-World

  25. SIEVES: Selective Prediction Generalizes through Visual Evidence Scoring

    Apr 28, 2026Hector G. Rodriguez, Marcus RohrbachVisual Evidence

  26. DRAGON: A Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Visual Reasoning over Diagrams

    Apr 28, 2026Anirudh Iyengar Kaniyar Narayana Iyengar, Tampu Ravi Kumar, Gaurav Najpande +4DiagramsVisual Reasoning

  27. Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

    Apr 27, 2026Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Xiaoke Huang +12Unified Multimodal ModelsVision Encoders

  28. PhysNote: Self-Knowledge Notes for Evolvable Physical Reasoning in Vision-Language Model

    Apr 27, 2026Sinin Zhang, Yunfei Xie, Yuxuan Cheng +2Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  29. SycoPhantasy: Quantifying Sycophancy and Hallucination in Small Open Weight VLMs for Vision-Language Scoring of Fantasy Characters

    Apr 27, 2026Arya Shah, Deepali Mishra, Chaklam SilpasuwanchaiVision-LanguageSycophancy

  30. Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Frontier Image Generation Models, Synthetic Visual Evidence, and Real-World Risk

    Apr 27, 2026Shuai Wu, Xue Li, Yanna Feng +3Synthetic Image DetectionImage Generation

  31. LAVA: Layered Audio-Visual Anti-tampering Watermarking for Robust Deepfake Detection and Localization

    Apr 27, 2026Bokang Zeng, Zheng Gao, Xiaoyu Li +2Explainable Deepfake DetectionWatermarks

  32. VDLF-Net: Variational Feature Fusion for Adaptive and Few-Shot Visual Learning

    Apr 26, 2026Jiawei YanFew-Shot LearningFeature Pyramid Networks

  33. Identity-Decoupled Anonymization for Visual Evidence in Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Apr 26, 2026Zehua Cheng, Wei Dai, Jiahao SunMulti-Source Retrieval-Augmented GenerationAnonymization

  34. PushupBench: Your VLM is not good at counting pushups

    Apr 25, 2026Shengzhi Li, Jiarun Chen, Karun Sharma +2Video UnderstandingCounting

  35. BSViT: A Burst Spiking Vision Transformer for Expressive and Efficient Visual Representation Learning

    Apr 25, 2026Hongxiang Peng, Dewei Bai, Hong QuSelf-Supervised Vision TransformersBinary Spikes

  36. Visual Chart Representations for Cryptocurrency Regime Prediction: A Systematic Deep Learning Study

    Apr 25, 2026Dustin M. HaggettDeep LearningChart

  37. EV-CLIP: Efficient Visual Prompt Adaptation for CLIP in Few-shot Action Recognition under Visual Challenges

    Apr 24, 2026Hyo Jin Jon, Longbin Jin, Eun Yi KimOpen-Vocabulary Action RecognitionVisual In-Context Learning

  38. Sum-of-Checks: Structured Reasoning for Surgical Safety with Large Vision-Language Models

    Apr 24, 2026Weiqiu You, Cassandra Goldberg, Amin Madani +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsGradient Surgery

  39. SketchVLM: Vision language models can annotate images to explain thoughts and guide users

    Apr 23, 2026Brandon Collins, Logan Bolton, Hung Huy Nguyen +3Visual ReasoningSketches

  40. Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models

    Apr 23, 2026Zhimu Zhou, Yanpeng Zhao, Qiuyu Liao +2Visual ReasoningImage Editing

  41. VG-CoT: Towards Trustworthy Visual Reasoning via Grounded Chain-of-Thought

    Apr 23, 2026Byeonggeuk Lim, Kyeonghyun Kim, JungMin Yun +1Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  42. Symbolic Grounding Reveals Representational Bottlenecks in Abstract Visual Reasoning

    Apr 23, 2026Mohit Vaishnav, Tanel TammetVisual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  43. Latent Denoising Improves Visual Alignment in Large Multimodal Models

    Apr 23, 2026Dhruv Parikh, Jacob Fein-Ashley, Rajgopal Kannan +1Visual TokensVisual Representations

  44. ImageHD: Energy-Efficient On-Device Continual Learning of Visual Representations via Hyperdimensional Computing

    Apr 23, 2026Jebacyril Arockiaraj, Dhruv Parikh, Viktor PrasannaEfficient Continual LearningReal-Time Inference

  45. Thinking Like a Botanist: Challenging Multimodal Language Models with Intent-Driven Chain-of-Inquiry

    Apr 22, 2026Syed Nazmus Sakib, Nafiul Haque, Shahrear Bin Amin +4Diagnostic BenchmarkVisual Reasoning

  46. V-tableR1: Process-Supervised Multimodal Table Reasoning with Critic-Guided Policy Optimization

    Apr 22, 2026Yubo Jiang, Yitong An, Xin Yang +7Multimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  47. Render-in-the-Loop: Vector Graphics Generation via Visual Self-Feedback

    Apr 22, 2026Guotao Liang, Zhangcheng Wang, Juncheng Hu +5Scalable Vector GraphicVisual Generation

  48. ProMMSearchAgent: A Generalizable Multimodal Search Agent Trained with Process-Oriented Rewards

    Apr 22, 2026Wentao Yan, Shengqin Wang, Huichi Zhou +4Multimodal Search AgentsVisual Reasoning

  49. Video-ToC: Video Tree-of-Cue Reasoning

    Apr 22, 2026Qizhong Tan, Zhuotao Tian, Guangming Lu +2Visual ReasoningTree-Of-Thoughts

  50. Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners

    Apr 22, 2026Valentin Gabeur, Shangbang Long, Songyou Peng +22Visual GenerationImage Generation

  51. HyLaR: Hybrid Latent Reasoning with Decoupled Policy Optimization

    Apr 22, 2026Tao Cheng, Shi-Zhe Chen, Hao Zhang +3Latent Visual ReasoningEfficient Latent Reasoning

  52. Camera Control for Text-to-Image Generation via Learning Viewpoint Tokens

    Apr 21, 2026Xinxuan Lu, Charless Fowlkes, Alexander C. BergText-To-Image3D Generative Models

  53. Visual Reasoning through Tool-supervised Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 21, 2026Qihua Dong, Gozde Sahin, Pei Wang +4Visual ReasoningCurriculum Reinforcement Learning

  54. If you're waiting for a sign... that might not be it! Mitigating Trust Boundary Confusion from Visual Injections on Vision-Language Agentic Systems

    Apr 21, 2026Jiamin Chang, Minhui Xue, Ruoxi Sun +3Large Vision Language ModelsVision-Language

  55. BONSAI: A Mixed-Initiative Workspace for Human-AI Co-Development of Visual Analytics Applications

    Apr 21, 2026Thilo Spinner, Matthias Miller, Fabian Sperrle-Roth +1Human-Ai CollaborationVisual Analytics

  56. DUALVISION: RGB-Infrared Multimodal Large Language Models for Robust Visual Reasoning

    Apr 20, 2026Abrar Majeedi, Zhiyuan Ruan, Ziyi Zhao +3Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  57. Brain-Inspired Capture: Evidence-Driven Neuromimetic Perceptual Simulation for Visual Decoding

    Apr 20, 2026Feixue Shao, Guangze Shi, Xueyu Liu +6Brain-Computer InterfaceVisual Perception

  58. AeroRAG: Structured Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented LLM for Fine-Grained Aerial Visual Reasoning

    Apr 20, 2026Junxiao Xue, Quan Deng, Tingqi Hu +4Knowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringMulti-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation

  59. DIRCR: Dual-Inference Rule-Contrastive Reasoning for Solving RAVENs

    Apr 19, 2026Jiachen Zhang, Chengtai Li, Jianfeng Ren +3Visual ReasoningAnalogy

  60. Cross-Modal Attention Analysis and Optimization in Vision-Language Models: A Study on Visual Reliability

    Apr 19, 2026Lijie ZhouCross-Modal AttentionCross-Modal Learning