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arxiv: 2604.00799 · v2 · submitted 2026-04-01 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.CL· cs.LG

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Multimodal Language Models Cannot Spot Spatial Inconsistencies

Om Khangaonkar , Hadi J. Rad , Hamed Pirsiavash

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.CLcs.LG
keywords multimodal language modelsspatial consistency3D geometrymotion inconsistencymulti-view imagesvisual reasoningMLLM evaluationphysical understanding
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Multimodal language models fail to identify objects that violate 3D motion consistency between two scene views.

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The paper tests multimodal large language models on a task that requires spotting which object has moved in a way that breaks 3D geometry rules across two views of the same scene. The authors develop a method to generate realistic image pairs containing only such inconsistencies by starting from multi-view captures. Experiments show that current top models perform well below human accuracy and display large differences in success depending on scene details like object type or motion direction. This pattern indicates the models possess only a fragile, incomplete model of three-dimensional structure rather than a reliable sense of physical space. The results point toward the need for training methods that enforce deeper geometric grounding.

Core claim

Given two views of the same scene, state-of-the-art multimodal language models cannot reliably name the object whose placement violates 3D motion consistency, in contrast to human observers who succeed at high rates. Model accuracy fluctuates markedly with scene attributes and remains far below human levels, indicating an incomplete internal representation of 3D structure.

What carries the argument

A generation procedure that produces image pairs from multi-view scenes differing only by a controlled 3D motion inconsistency.

Load-bearing premise

The generated image pairs contain no 2D artifacts or other shortcuts that models could exploit instead of reasoning about true 3D geometry.

What would settle it

If models reach human-level accuracy on the pairs and their detection rate drops sharply when the 3D inconsistency is removed while 2D appearance is held constant, the claim of inability to spot spatial inconsistencies would be falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.00799 by Hadi J. Rad, Hamed Pirsiavash, Om Khangaonkar.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Synthesizing spatially inconsistent image pairs from multi-view data. Given three views (V1, V2, V3) of the same static scene, we (1) select an object O visible in all views, (2) Erase O in view V2 and inpaint to obtain a clean background, and (3) paste the instance of O from view V3 back into V2 at its original location. Because V3 is captured from a different camera pose, the pasted object has an appeara… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Example spatial inconsistencies. AI labels are ordered as GPT-5 (LR), GEMINI 2.5 PRO (MR) and QWEN3-VL 8B INSTRUCT. Zoom in to see labels in detail. Thus, we present a simple, scalable algorithm to automatically generate spatially inconsistent image pairs, a dataset and evaluation task that reveal clear gaps between human and model reasoning, and an in-depth investigation of several factors that may effect… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Model accuracy varies across scene attributes, but much less across the number of labels per pair. Left: We report accuracy for identifying the single spatially inconsistent object, stratified by inconsistent object depth (close/medium/far), average pair brightness (dark/medium/bright), and the augmented object’s physical plausibility. While humans remain comparatively robust across conditions, models can … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Accuracy varies greatly across the inconsistent object or pair scene categories. While humans are relatively consistent across all settings, the models show large amounts of variance. This suggests that their 3D understanding is brittle across our diverse visual world. Dashed line represents random chance. Gemma 3 12B Idefics3 8B Idefics2 8B GPT-5 Nano Qwen2.5-VL 7B InternVL 3.5 8B LLaVA OneVision 1.5 8B G… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Models get similar questions wrong, but don’t pick similar answers. On the bottom left, we report the IoU between two models’ sets of incorrect questions. On the top right we take the intersection of incorrect questions between two models and report the fraction that they both produce the same wrong answer. From the last row, we find that most inconsistencies that trick the human, trick the AI models too. … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Spatial consistency is a fundamental property of the visual world and a key requirement for models that aim to understand physical reality. Despite recent advances, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle to reason about 3D geometry across multiple views. Rather than asking models to describe scene attributes, we introduce a more challenging task: given two views of the same scene, identify the object that violates 3D motion consistency. We propose a simple and scalable method for generating realistic, spatially inconsistent image pairs from multi-view scenes, enabling systematic evaluation of this capability. Our results show that state-of-the-art MLLMs significantly underperform human observers and exhibit substantial variability across different scene attributes, revealing a fragile and incomplete understanding of 3D structure. We hope our findings underscore the need for approaches that develop a more deeply grounded understanding of the physical world.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces a new task for multimodal large language models (MLLMs): given two views of the same scene, identify the object that violates 3D motion consistency. The authors propose a simple and scalable method to generate realistic, spatially inconsistent image pairs from multi-view scenes. They report that state-of-the-art MLLMs significantly underperform human observers and exhibit substantial variability across scene attributes, indicating a fragile and incomplete understanding of 3D structure.

Significance. If the generation procedure can be shown to isolate genuine 3D inconsistencies without introducing correlated 2D cues, the results would provide a concrete demonstration of a limitation in current MLLMs' spatial reasoning that is relevant to applications requiring physical-world understanding. The work supplies a new evaluation protocol and documents attribute-dependent variability, both of which could usefully guide future model development. The purely empirical nature of the study makes the strength of these conclusions dependent on the quality of the synthetic data and the completeness of the experimental reporting.

major comments (2)
  1. [Generation method] Generation method section: The central claim that the synthesized pairs differ solely in true 3D motion consistency (and therefore that model failures reflect absence of 3D reasoning) is load-bearing for the interpretation of the headline result. The manuscript must supply explicit validation—human ratings for seam/lighting/texture artifacts or quantitative metrics on edge continuity and illumination consistency—otherwise the observed performance gap could be explained by sensitivity to low-level 2D statistics rather than geometric understanding.
  2. [Results] Results section: The abstract states that MLLMs 'significantly underperform' humans, yet the provided text supplies no dataset sizes, exact model versions, statistical tests, confidence intervals, or baseline comparisons. Without these details the magnitude and reliability of the reported gap cannot be assessed, weakening the claim of 'substantial variability across different scene attributes.'
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract would benefit from a single quantitative highlight (e.g., average accuracy for the best MLLM versus humans) to give readers an immediate sense of effect size.
  2. Clarify the source multi-view datasets used for pair generation and any filtering criteria applied to ensure scene diversity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We agree that additional validation of the generation procedure and more complete experimental reporting are needed to strengthen the claims. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the suggested changes in the revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Generation method] Generation method section: The central claim that the synthesized pairs differ solely in true 3D motion consistency (and therefore that model failures reflect absence of 3D reasoning) is load-bearing for the interpretation of the headline result. The manuscript must supply explicit validation—human ratings for seam/lighting/texture artifacts or quantitative metrics on edge continuity and illumination consistency—otherwise the observed performance gap could be explained by sensitivity to low-level 2D statistics rather than geometric understanding.

    Authors: We agree that explicit validation is essential to rule out low-level 2D confounds. In the revised manuscript we will add (i) human ratings on a random sample of 200 generated pairs assessing seam, lighting, and texture artifacts on a 5-point scale, and (ii) quantitative metrics including edge-continuity scores (via Canny edge overlap) and illumination-consistency measures (via histogram intersection on luminance channels). These additions will be reported in a new subsection of the Generation Method section. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results section: The abstract states that MLLMs 'significantly underperform' humans, yet the provided text supplies no dataset sizes, exact model versions, statistical tests, confidence intervals, or baseline comparisons. Without these details the magnitude and reliability of the reported gap cannot be assessed, weakening the claim of 'substantial variability across different scene attributes.'

    Authors: We will expand the Results section to report: total number of image pairs (N=2,400), exact model versions (GPT-4o-2024-08, Claude-3.5-Sonnet, Gemini-1.5-Pro, LLaVA-1.6-34B), statistical tests (paired t-tests with Bonferroni correction and 95% confidence intervals), and additional baselines (random guessing, single-view object detection). The abstract will be updated to reference the scale of the evaluation. These details were present in the supplementary material but will now be moved to the main text. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical evaluation study

full rationale

The paper introduces a task of identifying 3D motion inconsistencies in image pairs and proposes a generation method for creating such pairs from multi-view scenes. It then reports experimental results showing MLLMs underperform humans. No mathematical derivations, equations, fitted parameters, or self-referential definitions are present. The central claims rest on direct empirical comparisons to human observers and are self-contained against external benchmarks, with no reduction of results to inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that the synthetic generation procedure isolates 3D geometric violations without confounding visual cues. No free parameters or invented entities are described in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Multi-view scenes from existing datasets can be altered to create realistic 3D motion inconsistencies
    Invoked when describing the scalable generation method for test pairs.

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