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.AI2025
ALDEN: Reinforcement Learning for Active Navigation and Evidence Gathering in Long Documents
Tianyu Yang, Terry Ruas, Yijun Tian +3
Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at interpreting text-rich images but struggle with long, visually complex documents that demand analysis and integration of information spread a…