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  1. CVIF: A Criticality-Driven Visual Intervention Framework for Geometric Diagram Understanding in MLLMs

    Oct 5, 2026Jiahui Kang, Bifan Wei, Lingling Zhang +4Visual Reasoning

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University · Tencent Hy AI Data

  2. MoLE: Mixture of Latent Experts for Complementary Visual Reasoning

    Oct 1, 2026Yingcheng Liu, Tianyi Jiang, Yujuan Ding +5Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    Tongji University, China · Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong · Alibaba Group, China +1

  3. Hob-VL: A Benchmark for Visually Grounded Boolean Reasoning

    Oct 1, 2026Yuzhou Wang, Emile Anand, Ijay NarangVisual ReasoningGeneralized Linear Model

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  4. Faithful Chart Generation for Multimodal Deep Research: Frame-Evidence Co-Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Yuxin Yue, Yingchen Zhang, Ruqing Zhang +3Visual EvidenceVisual Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China · University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  5. When Can Text Replace Vision? Structural Bottlenecks in Diagram Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Yunbei Zhang, Janet Wang, Jihun Hamm +1DiagramsVisual Reasoning

    Tulane University · Virginia Tech

  6. NeuronEye: Query-Guided Visual Concept Activation for Vision-Language Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026Ruiyu Yan, Bowen Chen, Shaowen Wan +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Representations

    New York University · New Jersey Institute of Technology

  7. Reasoning with Neural Cellular Automata

    Sep 28, 2026Mayalen Etcheverry, Pietro Miotti, Aidan Sirbu +7Neural Cellular AutomataBrain-Inspired Synergistic Framework

    Google Paradigms of Intelligence Team · School of Computer Science, McGill University · Mila - Quebec AI Institute +4

  8. SolveEdit: Benchmarking Visual Problem Solving in Generative Models

    Sep 28, 2026Wenjie Shu, Yexin Liu, Harold Haodong Chen +9Visual GenerationVisual Reasoning

    ZODA · HKUST · UCAS +2

  9. From Perception to Integration: Revisiting the Internal Dynamics of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Rong Yu Xu, Prayag Tiwari, Shaolei ZhangRecent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

    Shenzhen College of International Education · Halmstad University, Sweden · Renmin University of China

  10. V-Gym: Enhancing Agentic Visual Reasoning via Skill-Data Co-Evolution

    Sep 28, 2026Bei Yan, Yuecong Min, Jie Zhang +3Multimodal AgentsMultimodal Reasoning Benchmarks

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  11. Rethinking Latent Visual Reasoning: Grounding Latent Reasoning in Visual Evidence

    Sep 28, 2026Xi Xiao, Tianchen Zhao, Youngeun Kim +10Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    University of Alabama at Birmingham · Amazon AGI · Work done during an internship at Amazon AGI.

  12. Distilling Visual Reasoning into Text Space

    Sep 28, 2026Wenhan Yang, Nilay Naharas, Ali Payani +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Reasoning Benchmarks

    University of California, Los Angeles · Cisco Research

  13. Looks the Same, Answers Differently: Flip-Direction Steering for Robust Vision-Language Reasoning

    Sep 23, 2026Yeonsung Jung, Joonhyun Jeong, Hoang Pham +4Visual ReasoningSteering

    Graduate School of AI, KAIST · NAVER Cloud · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University +3

  14. DrGait: Biomechanically Grounded Visual Reasoning for Interpretable Clinical Gait Analysis

    Sep 23, 2026Xiangyu Yin, Shiqi Wang, Abrar Alamri +4Gait AnalysisVisual Reasoning

    University of Pittsburgh

  15. LegendBench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Legend Understanding with Counterfactual Interventions

    Sep 21, 2026Xinnuo Zhang, Zhike Tang, Jing Xu +2ChartDiagnostic Benchmark

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  16. Reasoning with Image Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Nishad Singhi, Hector Garcia Rodriguez, Aditya Arora +2Visual ReasoningVisual Generation

    Technical University of Darmstadt & hessian.AI

  17. Beyond Generation and Accuracy: Diagnosing and Enhancing Visual Chain-of-Thought for Geometry Problem Solving

    Sep 11, 2026Zhitong Dong, Jicai Pan, Yingguo Gao +3Visual ReasoningGeogs-Slam

    1Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology, Southeast University Group · 2Ant

  18. Studying Image Tokenizers as Visual Languages in Unified Multimodal Models

    Sep 8, 2026Siting Li, Zhengyang Wang, Simon Shaolei Du +2TokenizerLoss Function

    University of Washington · Amazon FAR

  19. Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation

    Sep 8, 2026Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationAeroact

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA

  20. VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment

    Sep 7, 2026Jingxiang Sun, Chao Liao, Zhengxiong Luo +6Modern Text-To-Image ModelsDiffusion Transformers

    ByteDance Seed

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

    Aug 11, 2026Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han +6Multimodal ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, 101480, China. · Tencent CDG, Shenzhen, 518054, China. · Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, Beijing, 100085, China.

  22. MedPixel: A Unified Pixel-Language Model for Medical Reasoning and Segmentation

    Aug 10, 2026Haoyu Yang, Meixing Shi, Zengjie Chen +5Medical Vision-Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

    Zhejiang University · Fudan University · Kuaishou +2

  23. Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

    Aug 10, 2026Jiahao Shao, Yuanbo Yang, Yiyi Liao +3Visual ReasoningPixels

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University · Ant Group +1

  24. CircuitReason-1k: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Visual-to-Symbolic Reasoning inElectrical Circuits

    Aug 10, 2026Xinqi Yang, Kang An, Tengyue Wang +8CircuitsVisual Reasoning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · South China University of Technology · ModelBest +6

  25. Agentic Visual Reasoning in Whole-Slide Pathology Images via Active Perception

    Aug 9, 2026Jingyun Chen, Fengchun Liu, Linghan Cai +5Whole-Slide ImagesMultiple Instance Learning

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong

  26. OpenVisTool: An Open Recipe for Synthesizing Instructive Visual Tool-Use Trajectories

    Aug 9, 2026Changhao Xiang, Shilin Zhang, Zheng Ma +8Visual Reasoning

    1Nanjing University · 2SenseTime Research

  27. VectraYX-Vision-1B: A Sub-2B Spanish/LATAM Cybersecurity Vision-Language Model with Structured Visual Reasoning and Native Tool Use

    Aug 9, 2026Juan S. SantillanaRecent Vision-Language ModelsLarge Language Model Safety

    Globant

  28. Evidence-RL: Towards Evidence-intensive Visual Reasoning

    Aug 8, 2026Haojie Huang, Xinlei Yu, Chengming Xu +6Vision-Language Model GroundingVisual Reasoning

    National University of Singapore · Zhejiang University · Fudan University +2

  29. GraphVerse: A Comprehensive Visual Graph Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 7, 2026Yuanfu Sun, Yuanhang Ren, Kang Li +5Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

    New York University · Sensetime Research · Tsinghua University +3

  30. PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates

    Aug 6, 2026Poonam Poonam, Hannah Kniesel, Pere-Pau Vázquez +1Computer VisionDeep Learning

    Ulm University, Germany · Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  31. ChronoVision: Temporal Reasoning via Latent State Reconstruction

    Aug 6, 2026Yifan Shen, Jian Xu, Boyi Li +6Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · PediaMed AI · University of Pennsylvania

  32. OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance

    Aug 5, 2026Aniri, Jinhe Bi, Peng Liao +5Multimodal Large Language ModelsRecent Vision-Language Models

    2Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich · 3Munich Center for Machine Learning · 1National University of Singapore +1

  33. Aligning Large Vision-Language Models at Test Time: A Trajectory-Guided Structured Sampling Approach

    Aug 4, 2026Tianbao Jiang, Weicong Ni, Gerard de Melo +1Visual ReasoningTest Time

    East China Normal University Shanghai, China · Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany · University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany +1

  34. CURV: Enhancing Chart Understanding Through Curriculum Visual Grounded Reasoning

    Aug 3, 2026Xuehang Guo, Pingyue Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang +6Visual ReasoningChart

    1William & Mary · 2Northwestern University · 3Adobe +1

  35. TRAM: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning with Trajectory-Derived Auxiliary Memory

    Aug 3, 2026Kang Liu, Zijing Wang, Yongkang Liu +5Multimodal ReasoningReasoning Trajectory

    Northeastern University, China

  36. LUT: Latent Utility Training for Visual Reasoning

    Aug 1, 2026Jiaxuan Kang, Siyu Chen, Mingda Li +6Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    Tencent PCG

  37. DiffuseAgent-MI: Distributionally-Grounded,Tool-Integrated Self-Evolving Agents for Faithful Visual Reasoning

    Aug 1, 2026An Lanji, Dawei Liu, Jin Li +3Visual ReasoningRecent Vision-Language Models

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.

  38. TraceViT: Grounded Trace Supervision for Visual Abstract Reasoning

    Jul 31, 2026Binnan Liu, Yechi Ma, Tian Xie +1Visual ReasoningTraces

    1Zhejiang University · 2Zhejiang Lab

  39. Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Letian Cheng +11Visual ReasoningAgentic Reasoning

    Peking University · Kling Team · HKUST(GZ) +3

  40. OPLD: On-Policy Latent Distillation for Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Shoutai Zhu, Tianyang Xu, Bin Sun +3Multimodal ReasoningLatent Visual Reasoning

    ByteDance

  41. See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States?

    Jul 29, 2026Siyu Yan, Zhuoran Yan, Haiying Xu +10Large Multimodal ModelsMultimodal Model

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Shanghai AI Laboratory · 2Central South University +4

  42. Beyond Zooming: Learning Multi-Tool Visual Reasoning for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing

    Jul 28, 2026Fengxiang Wang, Jiangnan Huang, Mingshuo Chen +8Trustworthy Earth Observation DecisionsVisual Reasoning

    National University of Defense Technology · Wuhan University · Tsinghua University

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

    Jul 27, 2026Tuan-An To, Yuk-Kwan Wong, Tuan-Anh Vu +2Recent Vision-Language ModelsUnderwater

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

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

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

    University of Texas at Dallas · Amazon Web Services

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

    Jul 22, 2026Md Tanvirul AlamRecent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

    Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY, USA

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

    Jul 20, 2026Liam SwayneReasoning BenchmarkLarge Language Model Benchmarks

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

    Jul 14, 2026Zhongwei Ren, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao +5Visual ReasoningFlow-Grpo

    Beijing Jiaotong University · ByteDance

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

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

    Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI-CSIC-UPC), Barcelona, Spain

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

    Jul 13, 2026Jasmin Thelen, Oliver WilhelmGeneral IntelligencePsychometric Properties

    Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Germany

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

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

    Sun Yat-sen University, China

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

    Jul 10, 2026Yang Chen, Yunwen Li, Yufan Shen +6Visual Reasoning

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Zhejiang University · M-A-P +2

  52. On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning

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

    Qualcomm AI Research*

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

    Jul 9, 2026Mayank SingalThoughtsVisual Reasoning

    Independent Researcher.

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

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

    Stanford University

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

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

    National Taiwan University · The University of California, Merced

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

    Jul 7, 2026Zhiwei Yang, Yuanchen Wu, Nan Zhang +3Visual ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Tencent Youtu Lab, Shanghai, China · Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  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

    1Zhejiang University · 2Alibaba Group

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

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

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · NKIARI, Shenzhen Futian, China +2

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

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

    Xi’an Jiaotong University · ARC Lab, Tencent IEG · City University of Hong Kong +3

  60. Latent Visual Diffusion Reasoning with Monte Carlo Tree Search

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

    Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China · Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA · University at Buffalo, Buffalo NY, USA