2 papers
cs.CV2026
Do multimodal models imagine electric sheep?
Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Carl Vondrick, Raja Giryes +2
Yes. We find that large multimodal models develop mental imagery when solving spatial puzzles, and they do imagine sheep when solving sheep puzzles. We fine-tune a Qwen3.5 VLM to s…
cs.AI2025
Does Spatial Cognition Emerge in Frontier Models?
Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Erik Wijmans, Philipp Kraehenbuehl +1
Not yet. We present SPACE, a benchmark that systematically evaluates spatial cognition in frontier models. Our benchmark builds on decades of research in cognitive science. It eval…