3 papers
cs.CV2026
Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning
Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak +9
The paper introduces HDR, a hierarchical denoising framework for causal video generation that enables multi-step visual reasoning with low-latency streaming, achieving higher succe…
cs.GR2026
ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks
Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, Max Ku, Nima Jamali +23
Advances in diffusion, autoregressive, and hybrid models have enabled high-quality image synthesis for tasks such as text-to-image, editing, and reference-guided composition. Yet,…
cs.CV2026
PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models
Chak-Wing Mak, Guanyu Zhu, Boyi Zhang +16
Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp…