3 papers
cs.AI2026
BilliardPhys-Bench: Benchmarking Physical Reasoning and Visual Dynamics of Multimodal LLMs
Ben Wang, Xiaogang Li, Ruochen Gao +6
Current multimodal models handle static image recognition well, but intuitive physical reasoning remains a weakness. Predicting how objects will move and interact from a single ima…
cs.CV2025
When Visualizing is the First Step to Reasoning: MIRA, a Benchmark for Visual Chain-of-Thought
Yiyang Zhou, Haoqin Tu, Zijun Wang +11
We propose MIRA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate models in scenarios where generating intermediate visual images is essential for successful reasoning. Unlike traditional CoT…
cs.CV2025
Where on Earth? A Vision-Language Benchmark for Probing Model Geolocation Skills Across Scales
Zhaofang Qian, Hardy Chen, Zeyu Wang +9
Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet their capacity for image-grounded geolocation in open-world conditions, a task that is challenging and of demand in real li…