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We introduce Qwen2.5-VL, the latest flagship model of Qwen vision-language series, which demonstrates significant advancements in both foundational capabilities and innovative functionalities. Qwen2.5-VL achieves a major leap forward in understanding and interacting with the world through enhanced visual recognition, precise object localization, robust document parsing, and long-video comprehension. A standout feature of Qwen2.5-VL is its ability to localize objects using bounding boxes or points accurately. It provides robust structured data extraction from invoices, forms, and tables, as well as detailed analysis of charts, diagrams, and layouts. To handle complex inputs, Qwen2.5-VL introduces dynamic resolution processing and absolute time encoding, enabling it to process images of varying sizes and videos of extended durations (up to hours) with second-level event localization. This allows the model to natively perceive spatial scales and temporal dynamics without relying on traditional normalization techniques. By training a native dynamic-resolution Vision Transformer (ViT) from scratch and incorporating Window Attention, we reduce computational overhead while maintaining native resolution. As a result, Qwen2.5-VL excels not only in static image and document understanding but also as an interactive visual agent capable of reasoning, tool usage, and task execution in real-world scenarios such as operating computers and mobile devices. Qwen2.5-VL is available in three sizes, addressing diverse use cases from edge AI to high-performance computing. The flagship Qwen2.5-VL-72B model matches state-of-the-art models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, particularly excelling in document and diagram understanding. Additionally, Qwen2.5-VL maintains robust linguistic performance, preserving the core language competencies of the Qwen2.5 LLM.
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- abstract We introduce Qwen2.5-VL, the latest flagship model of Qwen vision-language series, which demonstrates significant advancements in both foundational capabilities and innovative functionalities. Qwen2.5-VL achieves a major leap forward in understanding and interacting with the world through enhanced visual recognition, precise object localization, robust document parsing, and long-video comprehension. A standout feature of Qwen2.5-VL is its ability to localize objects using bounding boxes or points accurately. It provides robust structured data extraction from invoices, forms, and tables, as wel
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The Yes-Man Syndrome: Benchmarking Abstention in Embodied Robotic Agents
The paper presents RoboAbstention, a new benchmark showing frontier VLMs and embodied planners abstain on only 16.5-39% of 6,069 instructions grounded in robotics images, with prompting interventions raising rates to 88-93% but not solving the problem.
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MI-CXR: A Benchmark for Longitudinal Reasoning over Multi-Interval Chest X-rays
MI-CXR is a new benchmark that shows state-of-the-art vision-language models achieve only 29.3% accuracy on longitudinal reasoning tasks across multi-visit chest X-ray sequences.
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CalibAnyView: Beyond Single-View Camera Calibration in the Wild
A multi-view transformer predicts dense perspective fields that feed a geometric optimizer to estimate camera intrinsics and gravity from arbitrary numbers of real-world views.
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Cornfigurator: Automated Planning for Any-to-Any Multimodal Model Serving
Cornfigurator is the first automated deployment planner for generic any-to-any multimodal models that explores the full range of colocation-to-disaggregation strategies and delivers 1.12x to 6.32x higher goodput than existing systems or expert plans.
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FLEX: A Largescale Multimodal, Multiview Dataset for Learning Structured Representations for Fitness Action Quality Assessment
FLEX is the first large-scale multimodal multiview dataset for fitness AQA, featuring RGB, 3D pose, sEMG and physiological data plus a Fitness Knowledge Graph for structured annotations and a VideoQA benchmark.
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Attend, Transform, or Silence: Operator-Level Visual Skipping for Efficient Multimodal LLM Inference
The paper proposes an operator-level visual-token skipping framework for MLLMs that reduces TFLOPs by 33.7% on Qwen3-VL while retaining 99.5% performance across VQA benchmarks.
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Reroute, Don't Remove: Recoverable Visual Token Routing for Vision-Language Models
Reroute turns irreversible visual-token pruning into recoverable routing that reuses existing attention scores, improving grounding performance under aggressive reduction on LLaVA-1.5 and Qwen while preserving TFLOPs and KV-cache budgets.
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EvoCut: Multi-Layer Evolution-Aware Visual Token Compression for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
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Why Far Looks Up: Probing Spatial Representation in Vision-Language Models
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Which Way Did It Move? Diagnosing and Overcoming Directional Motion Blindness in Video-LLMs
Video-LLMs exhibit directional motion blindness from a direction binding gap; DeltaDirect projector objective lifts synthetic accuracy to 85.4% and real accuracy by 21.9 points while preserving other video capabilities.
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Seeing Together: Multi-Robot Cooperative Egocentric Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models
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Inline Critic Steers Image Editing
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AnomalyClaw: A Universal Visual Anomaly Detection Agent via Tool-Grounded Refutation
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TOC-Bench: A Temporal Object Consistency Benchmark for Video Large Language Models
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One Token Per Frame: Reconsidering Visual Bandwidth in World Models for VLA Policy
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CXR-ContraBench: Benchmarking Negated-Option Attraction in Medical VLMs
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Gaslight, Gatekeep, V1-V3: Early Visual Cortex Alignment Shields Vision-Language Models from Sycophantic Manipulation
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TimeSeriesExamAgent: Creating Time Series Reasoning Benchmarks at Scale
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Leave My Images Alone: Preventing Multi-Modal Large Language Models from Analyzing Images via Visual Prompt Injection
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TableVision: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Spatially Grounded Reasoning over Complex Hierarchical Tables
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SUPERGLASSES: Benchmarking Vision Language Models as Intelligent Agents for AI Smart Glasses
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ProactiveMobile: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Boosting Proactive Intelligence on Mobile Devices
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SpatiaLab: Can Vision-Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
SpatiaLab benchmark shows state-of-the-art VLMs achieve 54.93% accuracy on multiple-choice spatial reasoning in real scenes versus 87.57% for humans.
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Weather-R1: Logically Consistent Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Multimodal Reasoning in Meteorology
Weather-R1 is a multimodal reasoning model for meteorology that uses logical consistency rewards during reinforcement fine-tuning to cut self-contradictory outputs and raises benchmark accuracy by 9.8 points over baselines.
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IBISAgent: Reinforcing Pixel-Level Visual Reasoning in MLLMs for Universal Biomedical Object Referring and Segmentation
IBISAgent enables MLLMs to perform iterative pixel-level visual reasoning for biomedical object referring and segmentation via text-based clicks and agentic RL, outperforming prior SOTA methods without model modifications.
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Large Video Planner Enables Generalizable Robot Control
A video foundation model trained on human demonstrations generates zero-shot plans that convert to executable robot actions on novel scenes and tasks.
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ProAgent: Harnessing On-Demand Sensory Contexts for Proactive LLM Agent Systems in the Wild
ProAgent uses on-demand tiered perception and context-aware LLM reasoning to deliver proactive assistance on AR glasses, achieving up to 27.7% higher prediction accuracy and 20.5% lower false detections than baselines.
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ProcObject-10K: Benchmarking Object-Centric Procedural Understanding in Instructional Videos
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VIDEOP2R: Video Understanding from Perception to Reasoning
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High-Resolution Visual Reasoning via Multi-Turn Grounding-Based Reinforcement Learning
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OR-VSKC: Resolving Visual-Semantic Knowledge Conflicts in Operating Rooms with Synthetic Data-Guided Alignment
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LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
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SIV-Bench: A Video Benchmark for Social Interaction Understanding and Reasoning
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Reason-SVG: Enhancing Structured Reasoning for Vector Graphics Generation with Reinforcement Learning
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Video-Holmes: Can MLLM Think Like Holmes for Complex Video Reasoning?
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SpatialScore: Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for Spatial Intelligence
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Consensus Entropy: Harnessing Multi-VLM Agreement for Self-Verifying and Self-Improving OCR
Consensus Entropy measures inter-VLM output agreement to verify OCR reliability and enable self-improving ensembles, yielding 42.1% F1 gains over single-model judging.
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Video-R1: Reinforcing Video Reasoning in MLLMs
Video-R1 uses temporal-aware RL and mixed datasets to boost video reasoning in MLLMs, with a 7B model reaching 37.1% on VSI-Bench and surpassing GPT-4o.
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R1-VL: Learning to Reason with Multimodal Large Language Models via Step-wise Group Relative Policy Optimization
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Focus-then-Context: Subject-Centric Progressive Visual Token Reduction for Vision-Language Models
SPpruner reduces visual tokens in VLMs via focus identification followed by context-aware scanning, retaining 22.2% tokens for 2.53x speedup on Qwen2.5-VL with negligible accuracy loss.
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WOW-Seg: A Word-free Open World Segmentation Model
WOW-Seg proposes a word-free open-world segmentation model using Mask2Token and Cascade Attention Mask modules, reporting 89.7 semantic similarity and 82.4 semantic IoU on LVIS with one-eighth the parameters of prior SOTA plus a new 7,662-class benchmark.
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Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
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LLMs Know When They Know, but Do Not Act on It: A Metacognitive Harness for Test-time Scaling
A metacognitive harness uses LLMs' pre- and post-solution self-monitoring signals to control test-time reasoning, raising pooled accuracy from 48.3% to 56.9% on text, code, and multimodal benchmarks.
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SIEVES: Selective Prediction Generalizes through Visual Evidence Scoring
SIEVES improves selective prediction coverage by up to 3x on OOD VQA benchmarks by training a selector to score the quality of visual evidence produced by reasoner models, generalizing across benchmarks and proprietary models without internal access or per-task retraining.