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R3G: A Reasoning-Retrieval-Reranking Framework for Vision-Centric Answer Generation
Jan 25, 2026Zhuohong Chen, Zhengxian Wu, Zirui Liao +6Multimodal RAG Visual Question Answering
1The Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China · 2State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Power Safety Technology and Equipment, China
AMVICC: A Novel Benchmark for Cross-Modal Failure Mode Profiling for VLMs and IGMs
Jan 20, 2026Aahana Basappa, Pranay Goel, Anusri Karra +3Reasoning Evaluation Multimodal Large Language Models
Centennial High School, Frisco, Texas, USA · Algoverse AI Research, Palo Alto, Cali- fornia, USA · Lebanon Trail High School, Frisco, Texas, USA +1
SplatReasoner: Enhancing Embodied Reasoning and Grounding by Novel View Synthesis
Jan 19, 2026Kim Yu-Ji, Dahye Lee, Kim Jun-Seong +6VLM Reasoning Visually Grounded Reasoning
POSTECH · KAIST · ETRI +1
CASHEW: Stabilizing Multimodal Reasoning via Iterative Trajectory Aggregation
Jan 12, 2026Chaoyu Li, Fei Tao, Pooyan FazliTest-Time Scaling for VLMs Test-Time Scaling
Arizona State University · NewsBreak
VLM-CAD: VLM-Optimized Collaborative Agent Design Workflow for Analog Circuit Sizing
Jan 12, 2026Guanyuan Pan, Shuai Wang, Yugui Lin +4Bayesian Optimization Electronic Design Automation
Hangzhou Dianzi University, China · SCBC, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Zoom-IQA: Image Quality Assessment with Reliable Region-Aware Reasoning
Jan 6, 2026Guoqiang Liang, Jianyi Wang, Zhonghua Wu +2VLM Robustness VLM Reasoning
National University of Singapore · S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · SenseTime Research
MUSON: A Reasoning-oriented Multimodal Dataset for Socially Compliant Navigation in Urban Environments
Dec 28, 2025Zhuonan Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Zishuo Wang +8VLM Evaluation Social Robot Navigation
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan · Graduate School of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
RePlan: Reasoning-guided Region Planning for Complex Instruction-based Image Editing
Dec 18, 2025Tianyuan Qu, Lei Ke, Xiaohang Zhan +6Text-Guided Image Editing VLM Reasoning
Tencent AI Lab, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
CoSPlan: Corrective Sequential Planning via Scene Graph Incremental Updates
Dec 11, 2025Shresth Grover, Priyank Pathak, Akash Kumar +1VLM Reasoning Visually Grounded Reasoning
UCF Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Central Florida (UCF)
See, Think, Learn: A Self-Taught Multimodal Reasoner
Dec 2, 2025Sourabh Sharma, Sonam Gupta, SadbhawnaSelf-Training VLM Reasoning
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur · IBM Research
Understanding the Effects of Distractors on Reasoning Vision-Language Models
Nov 26, 2025Jiyun Bae, Hyunjong Ok, Sangwoo Mo +1VLM Evaluation Visual Question Answering
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Vision-Language Memory for Spatial Reasoning
Nov 25, 2025Zuntao Liu, Yi Du, Taimeng Fu +3Memory-Augmented VLMs Vision-Language Models
Spatial AI & Robotics (SAIR) Lab, University at Buffalo, USA · Stanford University, USA
MonoSR: Open-Vocabulary Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images
Nov 24, 2025Qirui Wang, Jingyi He, Yining Pan +3Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks Visual Spatial Reasoning
Technical University of Munich, Germany · A*STAR Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, Singapore · Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore +1
Thinking Ahead: Foresight Intelligence in MLLMs and World Model
Nov 24, 2025Zhantao Gong, Liaoyuan Fan, Qing Guo +3VLM Evaluation VLM Adaptation
College of Software, Nankai University, China · The University of Hong Kong, China · NKIARI, Shenzhen Futian, China +2
Contrastive vision-language learning with paraphrasing and negation
Nov 20, 2025Kwun Ho Ngan, Saman Sadeghi Afgeh, Joe Townsend +1VLM Robustness VLM Reasoning
Fujitsu Research of Europe · United Kingdom · City St George’s, University of London
Skin-R1: Clinical Knowledge-Guided Dermatological Diagnosis Using Vision-Language Models
Nov 18, 2025Zehao Liu, Weijieying Ren, Jipeng Zhang +4VLM Robustness Medical Diagnosis
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA · Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Critical or Compliant? The Double-Edged Sword of Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought Explanations
Nov 15, 2025Eunkyu Park, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Vasudha Varadarajan +4VLM Reasoning Multimodal CoT Reasoning
Seoul National University · Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
From Hindsight to Foresight: Self-Encouraged Hindsight Distillation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering
Nov 14, 2025Yu Zhao, Ying Zhang, Xuhui Sui +4Visual Question Answering CoT Distillation
College of Computer Science, VCIP, DISSec, Nankai University, Tianjin, China · School of Software, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China · Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China +1
AERMANI-VLM: Structured Prompting and Reasoning for Aerial Manipulation with Vision Language Models
Nov 3, 2025Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Avirup Das +3Aerial Robotics Structured Prompting
Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK · Newcastle University, UK
Explain Before You Answer: A Survey on Compositional Visual Reasoning
Aug 24, 2025Fucai Ke, Joy Hsu, Zhixi Cai +10Compositional Reasoning Visual Reasoning
Monash University · Stanford University · University of Washington +3
Mitigating Cross-Image Information Leakage in Multi-Image Understanding with Large Vision-Language Models
Aug 19, 2025Yeji Park, Minyoung Lee, Sanghyuk Chun +1Large Vision-Language Models VLM Reasoning
Sogang University · Princeton University · NAVER AI Lab
TAR: Temporal Anchor-Constrained Reasoning for Video Temporal Grounding
Aug 11, 2025Chaohong Guo, Xun Mo, Yongwei Nie +3Temporal Video Grounding Vision-Language Models
South China University of Technology · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) · Bytedance Inc.
Position: Reasoning After Perception Means Reasoning Without Vision
Jul 21, 2025Hongcheng Gao, Zihao Huang, Jingyi Tang +12Visual Reasoning VLM Reasoning
Tsinghua University · BIT · Peking University +6
What's Missing in Vision-Language Models? Probing Their Struggles with Causal Order Reasoning
Jun 1, 2025Zhaotian Weng, Haoxuan Li, Xin Eric Wang +2VLM Evaluation VLM Reasoning
University of Southern California · University of California, Santa Barbara · Texas A&M University
REVEAL: Robust Evolution of Vision-Language Models for Explainable AI-Video Detection
Feb 20, 2025Yun-Yun Tsai, Qingyuan Liu, Ruijian Zha +4Tool Use in VLMs Vision-Language Models
Columbia University · Rutgers University
ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models
Feb 13, 2025Jonathan Roberts, Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Ansh Sharma +31Visual Reasoning VLM Reasoning
University of Cambridge
Do Vision-Language Models Understand Visual Persuasiveness? A Diagnosis via Visual Persuasive Factors
Date pendingGyuwon Park, Hyounghun KimVLM Evaluation VLM Reasoning
Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, POSTECH · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH
Learning to Think Like a Cartoon Captionist: Incongruity-Resolution Supervision for Multimodal Humor Understanding
Date pendingHatice Merve Vural, Doga Kukul, Ege Erdem Ozlu +4VLM Reasoning Multimodal CoT Reasoning
Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey · KUIS AI Center, Istanbul, Turkey · Air Mail and Cartoon Collections +1
Retrieved Images as Visual Thought: Training-Free Multimodal In-Context Learning for the Open-vs-Closed Gap
Date pendingBingchen Huang, Zhiling Wang, Yifu Chen +1Multimodal RAG Multimodal ICL
Meituan
LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation
Date pendingShaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo, Fei Huang +17Embodied Navigation Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning
Light Origins Team

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

Zhuohong Chen, Zhengxian Wu, Zirui Liao, Shenao Jiang+5

1The Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China · 2State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Power Safety Technology and Equipment, China

Multimodal RAG Visual Question Answering Large Vision-Language Models VLM Reasoning Visually Grounded Reasoning Vision-Language Retrieval+1

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Vision-centric retrieval for VQA requires retrieving images to supply missing visual cues and integrating them into the reasoning process. However, selecting the right images and integrating them effectively into the model's reasoning remains challenging. To address this challenge, we propose R3G, a modular Reasoning-Retrieval-Reranking framework. It first produces a brief reasoning plan that specifies the required visual cues, then adopts a two-stage strategy, with coarse retrieval followed by fine-grained reranking, to select evidence images. On MRAG-Bench, R3G improves accuracy across six MLLM backbones and nine sub-scenarios, achieving state-of-the-art overall performance. Ablations show that sufficiency-aware reranking and reasoning steps are complementary, helping the model both choose the right images and use them well. We release code and data at https://github.com/czh24/R3G.

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