2 papers
cs.CV2026
Is Visual Prompting All You Need? Studying VLM Spatial Reasoning under Progressive Visual Scaffolds
Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Tianyu Yang, Florian Valentin Wunderlich +4
Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly in multimodal reasoning, yet recent work shows that their failures often reflect an interaction between visual grounding and dow…
cs.AI2026
Mind the Gap Between Spatial Reasoning and Acting! Step-by-Step Evaluation of Agents With Spatial-Gym
Lars Benedikt Kaesberg, Tianyu Yang, Niklas Bauer +3
Spatial reasoning is central to navigation and robotics, yet measuring model capabilities on these tasks remains difficult. Existing benchmarks evaluate models in a one-shot settin…