2 papers
cs.CV2026
Thinking Without Images: Internalizing Visual Manipulation with On-Policy Self-Distillation
Yishuo Cai, Jiahui Liu, Yuanxin Liu +9
''Thinking with Images'' has emerged as an effective paradigm for fine-grained visual reasoning: by explicitly zooming into relevant regions and reasoning over crops, models can ac…
cs.AI2026
Learning Visual Spatial Planning from Symbolic State via Modality-Gap-Aware Self-Distillation
Haocheng Luo, Jiahui Liu, Ruicheng Zhang +8
While Vision-Language Models excel at general multimodal understanding, they still struggle with visual spatial planning. We attribute this limitation to a perception--reasoning mo…