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ARXIV:2602.11073 · VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.11073VISION-LANGUAGE MODELSSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
ViLaVT enables more interactive and precise visual reasoning by dynamically integrating language guidance into vision processing.
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ViLaVT enables more interactive and precise visual reasoning by dynamically integrating language guidance into vision processing. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images'' attempts to alleviate this limitation by manipulating images via external tools…
Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically rely on text-only reasoning based on a single-pass visual encoding, which often leads to loss of fine-grained visual information. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images'' attempts to…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks demonstrate that ViLaVT achieves strong and consistent improvements, with particularly pronounced gains on complex multi-image and video-based spatial reasoning…
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.11073ViLaVT enables more interactive and precise visual reasoning by dynamically integrating language guidance into vision processing.
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Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically rely on text-only reasoning based on a single-pass visual encoding, which often leads to loss of fine-grained visual information. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images'' attempts to alleviate this limitation by manipulating images via external tools or code; however, the resulting visual states are often insufficiently grounded in linguistic semantics, impairing effective cross-modal alignment - particularly when visual semantics or geometric relationships must be reasoned over across distant regions or multiple images. To address these challenges, we propose ''chatting with images'', a new framework that reframes visual manipulation as language-guided feature modulation. Under the guidance of expressive language prompts, the model dynamically performs joint re-encoding over multiple image regions, enabling tighter coupling between linguistic reasoning and visual state updates. We instantiate this paradigm in ViLaVT, a novel LVLM equipped with a dynamic vision encoder explicitly designed for such interactive visual reasoning, and trained it with a two-stage curriculum combining supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to promote effective reasoning behaviors. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks demonstrate that ViLaVT achieves strong and consistent improvements, with particularly pronounced gains on complex multi-image and video-based spatial reasoning tasks.
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ViLaVT enables more interactive and precise visual reasoning by dynamically integrating language guidance into vision processing. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images'' attempts to alleviate this limitation by manipulating images via external tools or code; however, t...
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Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically rely on text-only reasoning based on a single-pass visual encoding, which often leads to loss of fine-grained visual information. Recently the proposal of ''thinking with images'' attempts to alleviate this limitation by man...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks demonstrate that ViLaVT achieves strong and consistent improvements, with particularly pronounced gains on complex multi-image and video-based spatial reasoni...
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Vision-Language Models moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
we propose ‘chatting with images’, a new framework that reframes visual manipulation as language-guided feature modulation.
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Under the guidance of expressive language prompts, the model dynamically performs joint re-encoding over multiple image regions, enabling tighter coupling between linguistic reasoning and visual state updates.
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Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks demonstrate that ViLaVT achieves strong and consistent improvements, with particularly pronounced gains on complex multi-image and video-based spatial reasoning tasks.
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with particularly pronounced gains on complex multi-image and video-based spatial reasoning tasks.
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and trained it with a two-stage curriculum combining supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to promote effective reasoning behaviors.
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The main limitations could include the computational demands for real-time applications and possible challenges in effectively crafting language prompts that the model can exploit to its full potential.
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This approach could disrupt traditional methods of visual reasoning that rely on static image processing, potentially replacing systems that require manual, iterative analyses with more autonomous, language-guided solutions.
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The model was evaluated on eight benchmarks, showing state-of-the-art performance on five, with notable improvements in tasks requiring complex spatial reasoning across multiple images or videos.
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