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  1. OASIS: On-Demand Hierarchical Event Memory for Streaming Video Reasoning

    Apr 18, 2026Zhijia Liang, Jiaming Li, Weikai Chen +3Video UnderstandingVisual Reasoning

  2. KIRA: Knowledge-Intensive Image Retrieval and Reasoning Architecture for Specialized Visual Domains

    Apr 18, 2026Parthaw Goswami, Jaynto Goswami DeepMulti-Source Retrieval-Augmented GenerationComposed Image Retrieval

  3. DO-Bench: An Attributable Benchmark for Diagnosing Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Models

    Apr 18, 2026JiYang Wang, Jiawei Chen, Mengqi Xiao +3HallucinationsVisual Evidence

  4. Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap

    Apr 17, 2026Yige Xu, Yongjie Wang, Zizhuo Wu +3Large Vision Language ModelsMultimodal Reasoning

  5. Find, Fix, Reason: Context Repair for Video Reasoning

    Apr 17, 2026Haojian Huang, Chuanyu Qin, Yinchuan Li +1Visual Reasoning

  6. Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model

    Apr 17, 2026Seil Kang, Woojung Han, Junhyeok Kim +3Visual EvidenceReal-Time Systems

  7. Mind's Eye: A Benchmark of Visual Abstraction, Transformation and Composition for Multimodal LLMs

    Apr 17, 2026Rohit Sinha, Aditya Kanade, Sai Srinivas Kancheti +2Spatial ReasoningVision-Language

  8. ReactBench: A Benchmark for Topological Reasoning in MLLMs on Chemical Reaction Diagrams

    Apr 17, 2026Qiang Xu, Shengyuan Bai, Yu Wang +6Reasoning BenchmarkVisual Reasoning

  9. Weak-to-Strong Knowledge Distillation Accelerates Visual Learning

    Apr 16, 2026Baiang Li, Wenhao Chai, Felix HeideImagenetEnd-To-End Speedup

  10. Reasoning Dynamics and the Limits of Monitoring Modality Reliance in Vision-Language Models

    Apr 16, 2026Danae Sánchez Villegas, Samuel Lewis-Lim, Nikolaos Aletras +1Large Vision Language ModelsLarge Reasoning Models

  11. Learning Adaptive Reasoning Paths for Efficient Visual Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Yixu Huang, Tinghui Zhu, Muhao ChenVisual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  12. Text-Guided 6D Object Pose Rearrangement via Closed-Loop VLM Agents

    Apr 10, 2026Sangwon Baik, Gunhee Kim, Mingi Choi +13D RepresentationVisual Reasoning

  13. Decompose, Look, and Reason: Reinforced Latent Reasoning for VLMs

    Apr 8, 2026Mengdan Zhu, Senhao Cheng, Liang ZhaoLatent Visual ReasoningLarge Vision Language Models

  14. CodecSight: Leveraging Video Codec Signals for Efficient Streaming VLM Inference

    Apr 7, 2026Yulin Zou, Wenyan Chen, Yan Chen +6Video-Language ModelsVision Encoders

  15. Steerable Visual Representations

    Apr 2, 2026Jona Ruthardt, Manu Gaur, Deva Ramanan +2Visual RepresentationsVision Encoders

  16. Navigating the Mirage: A Dual-Path Agentic Framework for Robust Misleading Chart Question Answering

    Mar 30, 2026Yanjie Zhang, Yafei Li, Rui Sheng +5ChartVisual Reasoning

  17. Can VLMs Reason Robustly? A Neuro-Symbolic Investigation

    Mar 25, 2026Weixin Chen, Antonio Vergari, Han ZhaoVision-LanguageVisual Reasoning

  18. Visual Prompt Discovery via Semantic Exploration

    Mar 17, 2026Jaechang Kim, Yotaro Shimose, Zhao Wang +3Visual In-Context LearningVisual Reasoning

  19. Are Video Reasoning Models Ready to Go Outside?

    Mar 11, 2026Yangfan He, Changgyu Boo, Jaehong YoonVisual ReasoningVideos

  20. VisNec: Measuring and Leveraging Visual Necessity for Multimodal Instruction Tuning

    Mar 1, 2026Mingkang Dong, Hongyi Cai, Jie Li +4Multimodal Instruction TuningInstruction Tuning

  21. Imagination Helps Visual Reasoning, But Not Yet in Latent Space

    Feb 26, 2026You Li, Chi Chen, Yanghao Li +4Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  22. A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite

    Feb 23, 2026Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin +53Visual Reasoning

  23. Spanning the Visual Analogy Space with a Weight Basis of LoRAs

    Feb 17, 2026Hila Manor, Rinon Gal, Haggai Maron +2Visual RepresentationsLow-Rank Adaptation

  24. LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

    Feb 15, 2026Shufan Li, Yuchen Zhu, Jiuxiang Gu +6Universal MultimodalDiffusion Language Models

  25. Stress Tests REVEAL Fragile Temporal and Visual Grounding in Video-Language Models

    Feb 11, 2026Sethuraman T, Savya Khosla, Aditi Tiwari +12Video-Language ModelsVisual Evidence

  26. SPARC: Separating Perception And Reasoning Circuits for Test-time Scaling of VLMs

    Feb 6, 2026Niccolo Avogaro, Nayanika Debnath, Li Mi +6Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  27. TimeBlind: A Spatio-Temporal Compositionality Benchmark for Video LLMs

    Jan 30, 2026Baiqi Li, Kangyi Zhao, Ce Zhang +3Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal InformationVisual Reasoning

  28. R3G: A Reasoning-Retrieval-Reranking Framework for Vision-Centric Answer Generation

    Jan 25, 2026Zhuohong Chen, Zhengxian Wu, Zirui Liao +6Visual ReasoningReranking

  29. AMVICC: A Novel Benchmark for Cross-Modal Failure Mode Profiling for VLMs and IGMs

    Jan 20, 2026Aahana Basappa, Pranay Goel, Anusri Karra +3Visual ReasoningCross-Modal Learning

  30. CASHEW: Stabilizing Multimodal Reasoning via Iterative Trajectory Aggregation

    Jan 12, 2026Chaoyu Li, Fei Tao, Pooyan FazliMultimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  31. Mimic Human Cognition, Master Multi-Image Reasoning: A Meta-Action Framework for Enhanced Visual Understanding

    Jan 12, 2026Jianghao Yin, Qingbin Li, Kun Sun +10Visual ReasoningTheory-Of-Mind Reasoning

  32. BabyVision: Visual Reasoning Beyond Language

    Jan 10, 2026Liang Chen, Weichu Xie, Yiyan Liang +27Visual ReasoningVisual Perception

  33. MSPL: Multi-Step Pseudo-Labeling for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Oct 16, 2025Hojun Choi, Youngsun Lim, Jaeyo Shin +1Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionObject Detection

  34. SRUM: Fine-Grained Self-Rewarding for Unified Multimodal Models

    Oct 14, 2025Weiyang Jin, Yuwei Niu, Jiaqi Liao +4Unified Multimodal ModelsVisual Reasoning

  35. Training-free Uncertainty Guidance for Complex Visual Tasks with MLLMs

    Oct 1, 2025Sanghwan Kim, Rui Xiao, Stephan Alaniz +2Video Multimodal Large Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  36. Explain Before You Answer: A Survey on Compositional Visual Reasoning

    Aug 24, 2025Fucai Ke, Joy Hsu, Zhixi Cai +10Visual ReasoningMultimodal Reasoning

  37. A Study of Commonsense Reasoning over Visual Object Properties

    Aug 14, 2025Abhishek Kolari, Mohammadhossein Khojasteh, Yifan Jiang +2Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

  38. Latent Space Analysis for Interpretable Uncertainty in Melanoma Classification

    Jun 23, 2025Ciro Listone, Aniello MuranoSkin Lesion ClassificationMammography

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

    Jun 11, 2025Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han +6Multimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  40. What's Missing in Vision-Language Models? Probing Their Struggles with Causal Order Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2025Zhaotian Weng, Haoxuan Li, Xin Eric Wang +2Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

  41. ViPlan: A Benchmark for Visual Planning with Symbolic Predicates and Vision-Language Models

    May 19, 2025Matteo Merler, Nicola Dainese, Minttu Alakuijala +5Classical PlanningExplicit Visual Grounding

  42. SurgXBench: Explainable Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Surgery

    May 16, 2025Jiajun Cheng, Xianwu Zhao, Sainan Liu +5Surgical VideosGradient Surgery

  43. Open-Vocabulary Object-Goal Navigation by Generalizing Semantic Mapping with Dense CLIP

    Jul 12, 2024Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan, Tai Wang +6Vision-Language NavigationOpen-Vocabulary

  44. Reason Through the Latent! Making Latent Visual Reasoning Necessary

    Date pendingSuhyeong Park, Junha Jung, Jaewoo KangLatent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  45. Do Multimodal LLMs See Before They Read? Diagnosing Contextual Sycophancy

    Date pendingYi-Cheng Lai, Hen-Hsen HuangMultimodal LearningVisual Evidence

  46. VBVR-Pro: A Scalable and Verifiable Suite for Native Visual Reasoning

    Date pendingJunxiang Xu, Ruisi Wang, Fanyi Pu +49Visual Reasoning

  47. Retrieved Images as Visual Thought: Training-Free Multimodal In-Context Learning for the Open-vs-Closed Gap

    Date pendingBingchen Huang, Zhiling Wang, Yifu Chen +1Visual ReasoningMultimodal Retrieval

  48. Are We Really Doing Few-Shot Learning? A Critical Examination of Pre-Training Assumptions

    Date pendingAlejandro Galan-Cuenca, Marcelo Saval-Calvo, Antonio Javier GallegoFew-Shot LearningTarget Domain