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Trace, Verify, and Correct: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs
Aug 5, 2026Yang Yang, Jiawei Chen, Tairan Chen +1Multimodal Grounding Visual Spatial Reasoning
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University · Zhongguancun Academy · Stevens Institute of Technology
SEER: A Self-Grounded Evidence Interface for Controlled Spatial Relation Classification
Aug 4, 2026Feixiang Liu, Likun Wang, Qiang Qiu +3Visual Spatial Reasoning Vision-Language Grounding
State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
SpatioLM: Towards General Physical Spatial Intelligence in Vision-Language Models
Aug 3, 2026Jing Wu, Jianhua Wu, Jiayi Guan +5Vision-Language Models Visual Spatial Reasoning
Xiaomi EV, Beijing, China · College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Independent Researcher
SpatialCLI: Learning to Reason With Spatial Tools, Then Without Them
Jul 30, 2026Yang Zhou, Zixuan Huang, Sunzhu Li +10Tool Use in VLMs Visual Spatial Reasoning
Zhejiang University · Zhuoyu Technology, Shenzhen, China · Beihang University +3
JigShape: Evaluating Visual-Geometric Reasoning in VLMs through Jigsaw Puzzles
Jul 30, 2026Shawn Li, Wei Yang, Jike Zhong +11VLM Evaluation Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
University of Southern California · National University of Singapore · Adobe Research +3
Explainable and Resource-Efficient Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs for Decision-Critical Applications
Jul 29, 2026Piyush Jain, Kousik Dasgupta, Rajarshi Roy +1Visual Spatial Reasoning 3D Spatial Reasoning
Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India · Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, India · IAIRO, India +1
Visual Credit Audit for Multimodal Spatial Reasoning
Jul 29, 2026Feixiang Liu, Qiang Qiu, Lanbo Sun +3VLM Evaluation Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Spatial-IQ: Deconstructing Spatial Intelligence via Hierarchical Capability Tests
Jul 24, 2026Patrick Rim, Tom Long, Ekta Prashnani +6Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks Visual Spatial Reasoning
1NVIDIA Research · 2Yale University
Show, Don't Tell: Evaluating Spatial Cognition in Generative Pixels Rather Than LLM Text
Jul 23, 2026Xu Wang, Kaixiang Yao, Miao Pan +4Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks Visual Spatial Reasoning
OmniAI Group of ZJU ACES Lab
ViSTR-Bench: Can MLLMs Reason from Continuous Visual Cues in Dynamic Scenes?
Jul 23, 2026Han Li, Si Liu, Zehao Huang +6VLM Evaluation Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing 100094, China · School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China
Do Maps Still Matter for Machines: Revisiting the Role of Choropleth Maps in Foundation Model Spatial Understanding
Jul 20, 2026Zhiwei Wei, Yonghe Sun, Zhenjia Liu +5Data Visualization Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
aSchool of Geographic Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China · bHunan Key Laboratory of Geospatial Big Data Mining and Application, Changsha, China · cSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China +3
ConsiSpace: Learning Geometric Consistency Matters for Video Spatial Reasoning
Jul 20, 2026Ting Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Wenyuan Huang +2Memory-Augmented VLMs Visual Spatial Reasoning
School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Intelligent Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China
LenGuard-GPC: Length Guarding with Guided-Prompt Consistency for Spatial Reasoning Reinforce Learning
Jul 19, 2026Xingjian Tao, Yiwei Wang, Yujun Cai +1Visual Spatial Reasoning Reward Shaping
HKUST(GZ) · UC Merced · University of Queensland +1
Beyond Single Expert: Harmonizing Diverse Visual Priors in MLLMs for Spatial Understanding
Jul 16, 2026Xiao Lin, Xiaohu Huang, Kai HanVisual Spatial Reasoning Vision Foundation Models
The University of Hong Kong
Reinforcing Egocentric Spatial Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models via Ego Scene Augmentation
Jul 16, 2026Chi Kit Wong, Ye Pan, Yuanhuiyi Lyu +6Visual Question Answering Visual Spatial Reasoning
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Information Center · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
UniVR: Thinking in Visual Space for Unified Visual Reasoning
Jul 14, 2026Zhongwei Ren, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao +5Physical Reasoning Visual Spatial Reasoning
Beijing Jiaotong University · ByteDance
DM-KG: A Novel Method for Boosting Spatial Cognition of Vision-Language Models in Street View Imagery
Jul 14, 2026Xinyue Xu, Zheng Zhang, Kunyang Ma +5Visual Question Answering Visual Spatial Reasoning
Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001, China · State Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
When Depth Is Better Told Than Shown: Depth-Ordinal Prompting for Vision-Language Spatial Reasoning
Jul 13, 2026Quynh Vo, Phuc Dao, Cong-Duy Nguyen +1Vision-Language Models Visual Spatial Reasoning
National University of Singapore · Center of AI Research, VinUniversity
MultiView-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for World-Centric Multi-View Integration in VLMs
Jul 9, 2026Hantao Zhang, Jinru Sui, Ed Li +2VLM Evaluation Vision-Language Models
Yale University · University of Edinburgh
APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts
Jul 9, 2026Emily Jin, Joy Hsu, Yiqing Xu +3Visual Spatial Reasoning Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Stanford University
Evaluation of Multilingual Ability to Use Spatial Deictic Expressions in Vision-Language Models
Jul 8, 2026Kaito Watanabe, Taisei Yamamoto, Tomoki Doi +1Visual Spatial Reasoning Multilingual VLM Evaluation
The University of Tokyo · Riken · Tohoku University
MentalThink: Shaping Thoughts in Mental SVG World
Jul 3, 2026Kangheng Lin, Jisheng Yin, Dingming Li +11Visual Spatial Reasoning Latent Visual Reasoning
State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · StepFun
SpaceEra++: A Unified Framework Towards 3D Spatial Reasoning in Video
Jul 2, 2026Weili Guan, Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu +3Visual Spatial Reasoning 3D Spatial Reasoning
School of Information Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen 518045, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China +4
OmniView-Space: Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning via Multi-Perspective Spatial Mapping
Jul 1, 2026Xudong Li, Mengdan Zhang, Peixian Chen +7Visual Spatial Reasoning 3D Spatial Reasoning
Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University, 361005, P.R. China · Tencent Youtu Lab · Beijing Institute of Technology
MindEdit-Bench: Benchmarking Object-Level Counterfactual Spatial Reasoning in VLMs from In-the-Wild Photos
Jul 1, 2026Leyuan Yu, Xiao Tang, Minghao Liu +6VLM Evaluation Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
ZODA · Tongji University · Zhejiang University +1
Technical Report of RoboSpatial Challenge at CVPR 2026: Selective Reasoning Activation and Reference-Frame Disambiguation for Embodied Spatial Reasoning
Jun 30, 2026Yuxiang Xie, Qi Lv, Jianming Xing +4Visual Spatial Reasoning VLM Reasoning
1Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · 2Ruoyu Technology
Decodable Is Not Grounded: A Vision-Ablation Arbiter for VLM Spatial Reasoning
Jun 30, 2026Chih-Ting Liao, Fei Shen, Xin Cao +1Visual Spatial Reasoning VLM Interpretability
University of New South Wales · National University of Singapore
OmniCoT: A Benchmark for Global and Multi-Step Panoramic Reasoning
Jun 29, 2026Haocong He, Chenfei Liao, Zichen Wen +13Visual Spatial Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Models
SJTU · HKUST(GZ) · Shanghai AI Lab +6
ScAle: Attention Head Scaling as a Minimal Adapter for Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models
Jun 28, 2026Rahul Chowdhury, Timothy A Rupprecht, Xuan Shen +2Visual Spatial Reasoning VLM Adaptation
Northeastern University, Boston, USA · EmbodyX Inc., USA · Zhejiang University, China
SpatialUAV: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence for Low-Altitude UAV Perception, Collaboration, and Motion
Jun 26, 2026Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu, Qianlong Xiang +3Visual Spatial Reasoning UAV Navigation
School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518055, China · Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan 250101, China +4

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Trace, Verify, and Correct: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

Yang Yang, Jiawei Chen, Tairan Chen, Zhaoxia Yin

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University · Zhongguancun Academy · Stevens Institute of Technology

Multimodal Grounding Visual Spatial Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Models Multimodal CoT Reasoning

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Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made substantial progress, their spatial reasoning may still produce intermediate judgments inconsistent with the input image, allowing errors to propagate through the reasoning chain and affect the final answer. Existing methods mainly improve spatial reasoning through training or additional spatial information, without considering whether the reasoning process itself is faithful to the model input. Our study shows that unfaithful reasoning chains significantly reduce final-answer accuracy. To address this issue, we propose a modular and training-free framework for spatial reasoning verification and correction. The framework constructs a Spatial Evidence Graph (SEG), which associates atomic spatial evidence extracted from Chain-of-Thought reasoning with visual entities, spatial relations, source steps, and visual evidence. Spatial Evidence Reliability Assessment (SERA) evaluates the reliability of visual evidence based on object existence, localization, and geometric measurements. The framework then identifies the earliest spatial evidence unit contradicted by reliable visual evidence and guides the original MLLM to revise the subsequent reasoning and final answer. Across 15 model-dataset settings, our method achieves an average accuracy of 68.94%, outperforming the compared baselines by 8.55 percentage points on average. Our code will be open-sourced.

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