3 papers
cs.AI2026
Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text
Yutong Bian, Dongjie Cheng, Heming Xia +2
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) improves the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and has been extended to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). More recent work further moves fr…
cs.AI2026
Omni-R1: Towards the Unified Generative Paradigm for Multimodal Reasoning
Dongjie Cheng, Yongqi Li, Zhixin Ma +5
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are making significant progress in multimodal reasoning. Early approaches focus on pure text-based reasoning. More recent studies have inco…
cs.LG2026
AR-Omni: A Unified Autoregressive Model for Any-to-Any Generation
Dongjie Cheng, Ruifeng Yuan, Yongqi Li +5
Real-world perception and interaction are inherently multimodal, encompassing not only language but also vision and speech, which motivates the development of "Omni" MLLMs that sup…