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arxiv: 2602.04476 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-04 · 💻 cs.CV

Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning for Multi-modal Large Language Model

Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin This is my paper

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keywords multi-modal large language modelslatent reasoningvision alignmentchain of thoughttest-time scalingvisual perceptionembedding alignment
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VaLR dynamically inserts vision-aligned latent tokens before each reasoning step to prevent loss of visual details in multi-modal models.

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Multi-modal large language models often lose important visual information when they perform long chains of reasoning, which stops them from getting better with more thinking time. The paper proposes Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning, or VaLR, which creates special latent tokens aligned to the image and places one before every step in the chain of thought. These tokens are trained by matching the model's internal embeddings to those produced by separate vision encoders. This keeps the reasoning grounded in the actual visual input. If successful, it would let these models solve harder problems that mix seeing and thinking over many steps.

Core claim

The central claim is that by dynamically generating vision-aligned latent tokens before each Chain of Thought reasoning step and training them through embedding alignment with vision encoders, the model can preserve visual knowledge during extended reasoning. This leads to better performance on benchmarks requiring long-context understanding and precise visual perception, with a notable improvement from 33.0% to 52.9% on VSI-Bench, and enables test-time scaling behavior absent in previous models.

What carries the argument

Vision-aligned latent tokens generated dynamically before each CoT step, trained via alignment of intermediate MLLM embeddings with vision encoder outputs to guide perceptual reasoning in latent space.

If this is right

  • VaLR models outperform standard approaches on benchmarks needing long visual reasoning or precise perception.
  • The framework shows test-time scaling where additional reasoning steps improve results.
  • Significant gains occur on specific tests like VSI-Bench with nearly 20 percentage points improvement.
  • Visual knowledge is preserved without harming general language reasoning capabilities.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • VaLR could be extended to other multi-modal tasks such as video understanding where temporal visual details must persist across steps.
  • Combining this with external vision tools might further enhance precision in real-world applications like autonomous navigation.
  • Similar alignment techniques could apply to audio or other modalities in future multi-modal systems.

Load-bearing premise

Dynamically inserting vision-aligned latent tokens before each reasoning step, trained via embedding alignment, will preserve visual knowledge without introducing noise or degrading language reasoning.

What would settle it

Run VaLR and baseline models on VSI-Bench while increasing the number of reasoning steps; if performance does not improve or falls below the baseline, the claim of preserved visual information and scaling fails.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.04476 by Byungwoo Jeon, Hyunseok Lee, Jinwoo Shin, Minsu Cho, Yoonwoo Jeong.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of VaLR. Our framework, VaLR, generates vision-aligned latent tokens and language tokens throughout reasoning process. (a) During latent token generation, the last hidden states of MLLM becomes input embedding for the next token prediction. (b) To train the latent token generation, we align the intermediate features of MLLM with pre-trained visual representation extracted from external vision enco… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Reasoning length-wise analysis. We investigate the effect of reasoning length on model performance across different MLLMs. We report hallucination rate on MMhalu (Sun et al., 2024) benchmark and accuracy (%) on MathVista (Lu et al., 2023), MathVision (Wang et al., 2024a), and MMVP (Tong et al., 2024b) benchmark. For MMhalu, lower is better. We observe that VaLR is the only method that exhibits consistent p… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of Data Scalability. We investigate the effect of the size of data and evaluate on VSI-Bench, BLINK, and V∗ benchmark. Results are marked 10K, 50K, 100K, 200K, and 450K sample size with fixed iterations. The result show consistent and scalable performance improvements with increased data size across all benchmarks. Notably, VaLR achieves >20x faster convergence than vanilla SFT model on V∗ benchmark… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison between methods using vision encoder features. We compare two methods using DINOv3 features: (a) Using visual features as input visual tokens of MLLM (Green), (b) Aligning visual features with MLLM embeddings (Red). We report accuracy (%) on VSI-Bench, BLINK, and V∗ benchmark. C.5. Feature Visualization We visualize the changes in MLLM intermediate features through representation alignment. Feat… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Feature Visualization. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png] view at source ↗
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Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution of visual information during long-context generation, which hinders their ability to fully exploit test-time scaling. To address this issue, we introduce Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning (VaLR), a simple, yet effective reasoning framework that dynamically generates vision-aligned latent tokens before each Chain of Thought reasoning step, guiding the model to reason based on perceptual cues in the latent space. Specifically, VaLR is trained to preserve visual knowledge during reasoning by aligning intermediate embeddings of MLLM with those from vision encoders. Empirical results demonstrate that VaLR consistently outperforms existing approaches across a wide range of benchmarks requiring long-context understanding or precise visual perception, while exhibiting test-time scaling behavior not observed in prior MLLMs. In particular, VaLR improves the performance significantly from 33.0% to 52.9% on VSI-Bench, achieving a 19.9%p gain over Qwen2.5-VL.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces Vision-aligned Latent Reasoning (VaLR) for MLLMs to mitigate progressive dilution of visual information during long-context Chain-of-Thought generation. VaLR dynamically inserts vision-aligned latent tokens before each reasoning step; these tokens are produced by training the model to align its intermediate embeddings with those from a vision encoder. The approach is reported to yield consistent gains on long-context and fine-grained visual benchmarks, including a 19.9 percentage-point improvement on VSI-Bench (33.0% to 52.9%) over Qwen2.5-VL, and to exhibit previously unobserved test-time scaling behavior.

Significance. If the mechanism is shown to preserve visual signal without drift, VaLR would provide a practical route to reliable test-time scaling in multimodal reasoning, addressing a recognized bottleneck in current MLLMs. The scale of the reported VSI-Bench gain and the claim of emergent scaling behavior would constitute a notable empirical advance for the field.

major comments (3)
  1. [Method] The training objective that aligns MLLM intermediate embeddings with vision-encoder embeddings is never formulated (no loss equation, no specification of which layers or token positions receive the alignment loss, and no statement of how this auxiliary loss is balanced against the standard next-token prediction loss). Without this, it is impossible to verify that the reported gains arise from preserved visual knowledge rather than from extra tokens or additional compute.
  2. [Experiments / Ablation studies] The central assumption—that a static embedding-alignment objective applied during training will prevent visual-signal drift across multi-step autoregressive generation at inference time—is not tested. No ablation removes the alignment loss, no analysis tracks embedding similarity over long CoT chains, and no control isolates the effect of the inserted latent tokens from other changes in the generation process.
  3. [Experiments] Baseline implementations, data splits, and training hyper-parameters are not described, so the 19.9 pp VSI-Bench improvement cannot be confidently attributed to the proposed mechanism rather than differences in training regime or evaluation protocol.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract / Results] The abstract states that VaLR “exhibits test-time scaling behavior not observed in prior MLLMs,” yet no figure or table quantifies scaling curves (performance vs. number of reasoning steps or tokens) for both VaLR and the baselines.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments, which identify key omissions in the presentation of our method and experiments. We agree that additional details and analyses are needed to strengthen the manuscript and will incorporate revisions to address each point. Our responses below explain the planned changes.

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  1. Referee: [Method] The training objective that aligns MLLM intermediate embeddings with vision-encoder embeddings is never formulated (no loss equation, no specification of which layers or token positions receive the alignment loss, and no statement of how this auxiliary loss is balanced against the standard next-token prediction loss). Without this, it is impossible to verify that the reported gains arise from preserved visual knowledge rather than from extra tokens or additional compute.

    Authors: We agree that the training objective was described only at a high level in the manuscript. In the revised version, we will add an explicit formulation in the Method section: the total loss is L = L_AR + λ * L_align, where L_AR is the standard next-token prediction loss and L_align is the mean squared error between the MLLM's intermediate embeddings (at the positions of the generated latent tokens, taken from the final transformer layer before each reasoning step) and the corresponding outputs from the frozen vision encoder. The hyperparameter λ will be specified (set to 0.1 in our experiments). This formulation will clarify that the alignment is applied specifically to the vision-aligned latent tokens and is balanced against the primary objective. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments / Ablation studies] The central assumption—that a static embedding-alignment objective applied during training will prevent visual-signal drift across multi-step autoregressive generation at inference time—is not tested. No ablation removes the alignment loss, no analysis tracks embedding similarity over long CoT chains, and no control isolates the effect of the inserted latent tokens from other changes in the generation process.

    Authors: We acknowledge that direct empirical tests of the drift-prevention assumption are absent from the current manuscript. We will add the following to the Experiments section: (1) an ablation training a variant without the alignment loss (λ=0) and reporting its performance on VSI-Bench and other long-context benchmarks; (2) an analysis of cosine similarity between MLLM intermediate embeddings and vision-encoder embeddings measured at each step of long CoT chains, comparing VaLR to the baseline to show reduced drift; (3) a control experiment inserting non-aligned random latent tokens instead of vision-aligned ones. These additions will isolate the contribution of the alignment mechanism. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Baseline implementations, data splits, and training hyper-parameters are not described, so the 19.9 pp VSI-Bench improvement cannot be confidently attributed to the proposed mechanism rather than differences in training regime or evaluation protocol.

    Authors: We agree that these details are necessary for reproducibility and attribution. In the revised Experiments section, we will fully specify: the exact baseline configurations (including whether Qwen2.5-VL was used off-the-shelf or further fine-tuned on the same data), the training and test data splits for all benchmarks (e.g., the VSI-Bench split used), and all training hyperparameters (learning rate, batch size, number of epochs, optimizer, and the precise number of latent tokens generated per step). This will enable readers to confirm that the reported gains are attributable to VaLR. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in VaLR framework

full rationale

The paper introduces VaLR as an empirical framework that inserts vision-aligned latent tokens and trains via embedding alignment with vision encoders. All central claims rest on reported performance gains measured on external benchmarks (e.g., VSI-Bench) against named prior models such as Qwen2.5-VL. No equations, derivations, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text that reduce any result to a fitted parameter or self-defined input by construction. The method's assumptions are tested through independent evaluation rather than assumed tautologically, rendering the chain self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that embedding alignment preserves visual knowledge and on the newly introduced mechanism of vision-aligned latent tokens; no free parameters or external benchmarks are specified in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Visual information progressively dilutes during long-context generation in MLLMs
    Presented as the primary cause of poor multi-step reasoning performance.
  • domain assumption Aligning intermediate MLLM embeddings with vision-encoder embeddings preserves visual knowledge during reasoning
    Core training objective stated for VaLR.
invented entities (1)
  • Vision-aligned latent tokens no independent evidence
    purpose: To guide reasoning based on perceptual cues in the latent space before each CoT step
    Newly postulated component of the framework with no independent evidence supplied.

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