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  1. From Hallucination to Grounding: Diagnosing Visual Spatial Intelligence via CRISP

    Jun 25, 2026Zhixing Li, Yinan YuVLM EvaluationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  2. PointVG-R: Internalizing Geometric Reasoning in MLLMs for Precise Pointing Localization via Visual Chain of Thought

    Jun 23, 2026Ling Li, Bowen Liu, Zinuo Zhan +5Visual Spatial ReasoningVision-Language Grounding

    Tsinghua University Beijing Shi, China · Dalian University of Technology Dalian Shi, China · Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi’an Shi, China +1

  3. VistaRef: Boosting Visual Spatial Orientation Awareness for Pointing-to-Object Detection

    Jun 23, 2026Ling Li, Zhizhen Cai, Xinkun Wu +4Visual Spatial ReasoningDetection Transformer

    Tsinghua University Beijing Shi, China · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing Shi, China · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School Shenzhen, Guangdong, China +1

  4. OmniSpace: Efficient Geometry Awareness for Autonomous Vehicles MLLMs

    Jun 21, 2026Hao Vo, Phu Loc Nguyen, Khoa Vo +7Multi-View GeometryVision-Language Models

    University of Arkansas, USA · Google Research, Google · University of Liverpool, UK +1

  5. CVSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Cross-view Spatial Reasoning and Dreaming

    Jun 21, 2026Ruixun Liu, Lingyu Zhang, Lanxuan Xue +3VLM EvaluationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University · Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Network Security

  6. Vesta: A Generalist Embodied Reasoning Model

    Jun 18, 2026Johan Bjorck, Zhiqi Li, Yunze Man +29Visual Spatial ReasoningRobot Foundation Models

    Co-first authors (alphabetical order). · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Core authors (alphabetical order). +8

  7. S-Agent: Spatial Tool-Use Elicits Reasoning for Spatial Intelligence

    Jun 18, 2026Yalun Dai, Hao Li, Shulin Tian +10Visual Spatial Reasoning3D Spatial Reasoning

    1NTU · ★Ropedia · 2THU +2

  8. Timage: A Generative Text-in-Image Paradigm for Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Models

    Jun 18, 2026Yifeng Wu, Huimin Huang, Ruiluo Wu +5Visual Spatial ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Fudan University · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · Tencent Jarvis Lab +1

  9. ERQA-Plus: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Reasoning in Embodied AI

    Jun 16, 2026Hong Yang, Basura FernandoVisual Spatial ReasoningEmbodied QA

    Centre for Frontier AI Research Agency for Science, Technology and Research Singapore · Centre for Frontier AI Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  10. Reinforcing Dual-Path Reasoning in Spatial Vision Language Models

    Jun 16, 2026Yatai Ji, An-Chieh Cheng, Yang Fu +13Visual Spatial Reasoning3D Spatial Reasoning

    The University of Hong Kong · NVIDIA · University of California, San Diego

  11. Thinking with Visual Grounding

    Jun 15, 2026Junkai Zhang, Yihe Deng, Kai-Wei Chang +1Visual Spatial ReasoningVision-Language Grounding

    University of California, Los Angeles

  12. RoboPIN: Grounded Embodied Reasoning via Pinned Chain-of-Thought

    Jun 14, 2026Yaoting Huang, Yifu Yuan, Linqi Han +6Visual Spatial ReasoningCoT Reasoning

    1Tianjin University

  13. FARM: Find Anything using Relational Spatial Memory

    Jun 13, 2026Siming He, Leo Huang, Adam Lilja +6Visual Spatial ReasoningRelational Reasoning

    1UC Berkeley · 2Stanford University

  14. Perceive, Interact, Reason: Building Tool-Augmented Visual Agents for Spatial Reasoning

    Jun 11, 2026Changye Li, Meng Lu, Yi Wu +1Tool Use in VLMsVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Tsinghua University · Virginia Tech · NVIDIA

  15. SVoT: State-aware Visualization-of-Thought for Spatial Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 10, 2026Chao Lei, Yanbei Jiang, Markus Hiller +4Visual Spatial ReasoningReinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

    School of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

  16. Reason, Then Re-reason: Cross-view Revisiting Improves Spatial Reasoning

    Jun 10, 2026Chaofan Ma, Zhenjie Mao, Yuhuan Yang +5Visual Spatial Reasoning3D Spatial Reasoning

    Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tongji University

  17. VeriSpace: Spatially Grounded Action Verification for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 9, 2026Guiyu Zhao, Longteng Guo, Junyou Zhu +6Visual Spatial ReasoningRobotic Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  18. SpatialWorld: Benchmarking Interactive Spatial Reasoning of Multimodal Agents in Real-World Tasks

    Jun 8, 2026Hongcheng Gao, Hailong Qu, Jingyi Tang +18Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Tsinghua University · Chongqing University · Peking University +6

  19. SpaceVLN: A Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation Agent with Online Spatial Cognitive Memory and Reasoning

    Jun 8, 2026Yucheng Deng, Pingrui Lai, Xinhai Li +5Visual Spatial ReasoningEmbodied Navigation

    School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering & School of Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom · 3Central South University +1

  20. EmbodimentSemantic: A Spatial Scene-Graph Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Embodied Manipulation Trajectories

    Jun 6, 2026Hassan Jaber, Refinath S N, Luca Cagliero +2Scene Graph GenerationVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Politecnico di Torino, Italy · Huawei, Noah’s Ark Lab, United Kingdom · University College London, United Kingdom

  21. Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators

    Jun 4, 2026Chenming Zhu, Jingli Lin, Yilin Long +4Visual Spatial ReasoningWorld Model Learning

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University +2

  22. Learning Visual Spatial Planning from Symbolic State via Modality-Gap-Aware Self-Distillation

    Jun 4, 2026Haocheng Luo, Jiahui Liu, Ruicheng Zhang +6Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationVisual Spatial Reasoning

    1Tsinghua University · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  23. LongSpace: Exploring Long-Horizon Spatial Memory from Perception to Recall in Video

    Jun 4, 2026Shiqiang Lang, Jing Liu, Haoyang He +6Visual Spatial ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Zhongguancun Academy · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +2

  24. Brick-Composer: Using MLLMs for Assembly with Diverse Bricks

    Jun 3, 2026Jiateng Liu, Bingxuan Li, Zhenhailong Wang +8Visual Spatial ReasoningBenchmark Construction

    UIUC1 · Stevens Institute of Technology2 · Northwestern University3

  25. Imaginative Perception Tokens Enhance Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models

    Jun 2, 2026Mahtab Bigverdi, Linjie Li, Weikai Huang +8Visual Spatial ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    University of Washington · 2Allen Institute for AI · 3Microsoft +1

  26. Eliciting Complex Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs through Wide-Baseline Matching

    Jun 2, 2026Hao Zhong, Muzhi Zhu, Shenyan Zeng +8VLM EvaluationSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks

    State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University · Ant Group · Westlake University

  27. Spectral-Progressive Thought Flow for Lightweight Multimodal Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi +6Efficient Multimodal InferenceVisual Spatial Reasoning

    Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece · Department of Computer Science, University College London +3

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

    Jun 1, 2026S Divakar Bhat, Toshihiko YamasakiVLM EvaluationMulti-View Consistency

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

  29. Question-Aware Evidence Ledgers for Video Relational Reasoning

    Jun 1, 2026Yilin Ou, Mengshi Qi, Huadong MaVisual Spatial ReasoningRelational Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

  30. Active Exploring like a Pigeon: Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning via Agentic Vision-Language Models

    Jun 1, 2026Wei Deng, Xianlin Zhang, Mengshi QiActive PerceptionVisual Spatial Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China · School of Digital Media & Design Arts