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CaMo: Camera Motion Grounded Evaluation and Training for Vision-Language Models
May 19, 2026Hsiang-Wei Huang, Junbin Lu, Kuang-Ming Chen +3VLM Evaluation 3D Spatial Reasoning
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
GeoX: Mastering Geospatial Reasoning Through Self-Play and Verifiable Rewards
May 19, 2026Kyeongjin Ahn, Seungeon Lee, Krishna P. Gummadi +1Self-Play RL Geospatial Reasoning
KAIST · MPI-SWS · MPI-SP
CogOmniControl: Reasoning-Driven Controllable Video Generation via Creative Intent Cognition
May 19, 2026Hongji Yang, Songlian Li, Yucheng Zhou +4Video Diffusion Models RL for Video Generation
1SKL-IOTSC, CIS, University of Macau · 2Online-Video BU, Tencent
FineBench: Benchmarking and Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Fine-grained Human Activity Understanding
May 19, 2026Gueter Josmy Faure, Min-Hung Chen, Jia-Fong Yeh +2VLM Evaluation Temporal Video Grounding
National Taiwan University · Google · Independent Researcher
Pseudocode-Guided Structured Reasoning for Automating Reliable Inference in Vision-Language Models
May 19, 2026Weicong Ni, Tianbao Jiang, Linlin WangVLM Robustness Object Hallucination in VLMs
All authors are with East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Benchmarking and Evolving Reason-Reflect-Rectify for Reflective Visual Generation
May 19, 2026Junjie Wang, Xinghua Lou, Jason Li +8Image Generation Compositional T2I Generation
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · University of Science and Technology of China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +5
PERL: Parameter Efficient Reasoning in CLIP Latent Space
May 18, 2026Simone Carnemolla, Salvatore Calcagno, Daniela Giordano +2VLM Adaptation Few-Shot Learning
University of Catania
What's Holding Back Latent Visual Reasoning?
May 18, 2026André G. Viveiros, Nuno Gonçalves, André F. T. Martins +1Vision-Language Models Latent Visual Reasoning
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa · Instituto de Telecomunicações · Carnegie Mellon University +1
SEDualVLN: A Spatially-Enhanced Dual-System for Vision-Language Navigation
May 17, 2026Jingzhi Huang, Junkai Huang, Wenxuan Song +4Visual Spatial Reasoning Vision-Language Navigation
Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
ChemVA: Advancing Large Language Models on Chemical Reaction Diagrams Understanding
May 17, 2026Mingyang Rao, Kehua Feng, Zhihui Zhu +4Vision-Language Models VLM Reasoning
College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · Department of Chemistry, Fudan University Shanghai, China
Ranking-Aware Calibration for Reliable Multimodal Reinforcement Learning
May 16, 2026Peng Cui, Boyao Yang, Jun ZhuMultimodal Robustness VLM Reasoning
Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Tech., Institute for AI, BNRist Center, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Dept. of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Thinking with Patterns: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Visual Planning via Pattern Induction
May 16, 2026Yichang Jian, Boyuan Xiao, Zhenyuan Huang +2Efficient VLM Inference Latent Visual Reasoning
State Key Lab of CAD& CG Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University
Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination
May 15, 2026Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang, Yaokang Wu +4VLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
University of Southern California · University of California San Diego · Carnegie Mellon Univer +1
REC-RL: Referring expression counting via Gaussian and range-based reward optimization
May 15, 2026Hui Liu, Yunlai Teng, Kunlong Bai +4VLM Reasoning RL for VLMs
JIUTIAN Research, Beijing, China
VLMs Trace Without Tracking: Diagnosing Failures in Visual Path Following
May 15, 2026Hyesoo Hong, Minsoo Kim, Wonje Jeung +3VLM Evaluation Visual Navigation
Yonsei University
DeltaPrompts: Escaping the Zero-Delta Trap in Multimodal Distillation
May 15, 2026Jaehun Jung, Hyunwoo Kim, Brandon Cui +4VLM Distillation VLM Reasoning
NVIDIA Research
ATLAS: Agentic or Latent Visual Reasoning? One Word is Enough for Both
May 14, 2026Ziyu Guo, Rain Liu, Xinyan Chen +1Visual Reasoning Large Vision-Language Models
Meta AI · The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pelican-Unify 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Model for Understanding, Reasoning, Imagination and Action
May 14, 2026Yi Zhang, Yinda Chen, Che Liu +26Action-Conditioned Video Generation Unified Multimodal Models
Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics (X-Humanoid) WFM System Group
On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models
May 14, 2026Mukul Ranjan, Prince Jha, Khushboo Kumari +1VLM Evaluation VLM Reasoning
MBZUAI, UAE · Inception, UAE
LATERN: Test-Time Context-Aware Explainable Video Anomaly Detection
May 14, 2026Mitchell Piehl, Muchao YeInterpretable Anomaly Detection VLM Reasoning
The University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52245, USA
Chain-of-Procedure: Hierarchical Visual-Language Reasoning for Procedural QA
May 14, 2026Guanhua Chen, Yutong Yao, Shenghe Sun +5Visual Question Answering Multimodal Reasoning
NLP2CT Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau · Centre for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of Macau · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Macau
Exploring Vision-Language Models for Online Signature Verification: A Zero-Shot Capability Study
May 14, 2026Marta Robledo-Moreno, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben Tolosana +1VLM Evaluation Zero-Shot Learning
BiometricsAI, School of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
SceneFunRI: Reasoning the Invisible for Task-Driven Functional Object Localization
May 14, 2026Posheng Chen, Powen Cheng, Gueter Josmy Faure +2VLM Evaluation Visual Spatial Reasoning
National Taiwan University · Delta Robotics Innovation Center
Bad Seeing or Bad Thinking? Rewarding Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
May 13, 2026Haozhe Wang, Qixin Xu, Changpeng Wang +4Multimodal Reasoning VLM Reasoning
1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) · 2Tsinghua University · 3Zhejiang University +2
CAVE: A Structured Credit Assignment Approach for Fragmented Visual Evidence Reasoning
May 13, 2026Tengda Guo, Jie Leng, Hanlei Li +6Process Reward Models Visual Reasoning
Tsinghua University · Peking University · Zhejiang University of Technology
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
May 13, 2026Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li +6Robotic Control Robot Policy Learning
Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology · International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA) · National Key Laboratory of Smart Farm Technologies and Systems +4
PDCR: Perception-Decomposed Confidence Reward for Vision-Language Reasoning
May 13, 2026Hee Suk Yoon, Eunseop Yoon, Ji Woo Hong +6VLM Reasoning Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) · Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Seg-Agent: Test-Time Multimodal Reasoning for Training-Free Language-Guided Segmentation
May 13, 2026Chao Hao, Jun Xu, Ji Du +6Text-Guided Image Segmentation Promptable Image Segmentation
School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523000, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou, 311115, China · Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
3D Primitives are a Spatial Language for VLMs
May 12, 2026Junze Liu, Kun Qian, Florian Dubost +8Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks 3D Spatial Reasoning
Unity Technologies
Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
May 12, 2026Yanting Miao, Yutao Sun, Dexin Wang +8Multimodal Large Language Models Latent Visual Reasoning
1Qwen Large Model Application Team, Alibaba · 3Zhejiang University · University of Waterloo +1

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CaMo: Camera Motion Grounded Evaluation and Training for Vision-Language Models

Hsiang-Wei Huang, Junbin Lu, Kuang-Ming Chen, Jianxu Shangguan+2

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

VLM Evaluation 3D Spatial Reasoning VLM Reasoning 3D VLMs

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on spatial question answering benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether such gains reflect genuine spatial intelligence. We show that existing spatial VLMs lack basic camera motion understanding, a key component of spatial cognition. We propose the Spatial Narrative Score (SNS), an evaluation framework that requires VLMs to generate explicit spatial narratives capturing both scene semantics and camera motion, followed by reasoning with a frozen proxy LLM. Under SNS, state-of-the-art spatial VLMs exhibit significant performance degradation despite high direct question answering accuracy. To address this gap, we introduce CaMo, a camera motion grounded VLM that achieves consistent performance across SNS evaluation and direct spatial question answering accuracy. Our results highlight the importance of explicit spatial narrative externalization for evaluating VLMs with transferable 3D spatial understanding. Our code, data, and model is available at https://github.com/hsiangwei0903/CaMo

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