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Token Warping Helps MLLMs Look from Nearby Viewpoints

Chanho Park, Juil Koo, Mingue Park, Minhyuk Sung, Phillip Y. Lee, Seungwoo Yoo

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keywords token warpingMLLMsviewpoint transformationViewBenchbackward warpingmental imageryViT
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The pith

Warping tokens rather than pixels enables multimodal large language models to reason reliably from nearby viewpoints.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tests whether warping image tokens inside ViT-based MLLMs can let them understand how a scene looks from a nearby viewpoint. Pixel warping often fails because small depth mistakes create large geometric distortions, but token warping avoids this by operating on part-level features instead. Backward token warping proves more stable than forward warping: it builds a grid in the target view and pulls matching tokens from the source view, keeping semantic structure intact. Tests on the new ViewBench benchmark show this token method beats pixel warping, spatially fine-tuned MLLMs, and generative warping baselines.

Core claim

Backward token warping defines a dense grid on the target viewpoint and retrieves the corresponding source-view token for each grid point, supplying the MLLM with a viewpoint-shifted token map that preserves semantic coherence without the distortions introduced by pixel-level operations.

What carries the argument

Backward token warping on ViT image tokens, which maps each point in a target-view grid back to its matching token in the source view to create a coherent warped representation.

If this is right

  • MLLMs can handle small viewpoint changes without retraining or pixel-level editing.
  • Backward token warping maintains semantic coherence better than pixel warping or generative alternatives.
  • The same token-warping step works across different ViT-based MLLM architectures.
  • ViewBench provides a concrete testbed for measuring viewpoint robustness in multimodal models.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • ViT tokens may already encode enough part structure to support simple mental-rotation operations inside language models.
  • Chaining multiple small warps could extend the method to moderately larger viewpoint differences.
  • Robotics and augmented-reality systems that need quick viewpoint-invariant descriptions could adopt token warping as a lightweight preprocessing step.

Load-bearing premise

Image tokens produced by the vision transformer correspond to part-level structural representations that can be warped to simulate viewpoint changes.

What would settle it

A direct comparison on ViewBench where token warping produces no gain or lower accuracy than pixel warping once viewpoint shifts introduce noticeable occlusions or depth errors.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02870 by Chanho Park, Juil Koo, Mingue Park, Minhyuk Sung, Phillip Y. Lee, Seungwoo Yoo.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Viewpoint Change via Token Warping. We explore token warping as a means of enabling viewpoint changes for MLLMs and find that backward token warping can reliably transfer source image content to novel viewpoints without synthesizing new pixels. Abstract Can warping tokens, rather than pixels, help multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand how a scene ap￾pears from a nearby viewpoint? While MLLMs … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Image Tokenization in MLLMs (Sec. 3.1). MLLMs process images by dividing them into fixed-size patches, embedding each patch, and passing them through a vision encoder (e.g., ViT) to obtain image tokens. Through our experiments on ViewBench, designed to evaluate MLLMs on spatial reasoning tasks involving view￾point changes, we systematically explore the aforementioned axes of pipeline design. The results sh… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Limitations of Pixel-Wise Warping. Pixel-wise warping to a target viewpoint often introduces local distortions and semantic degradation. In both forward (top) and backward (bottom) warping, the book from the source view appears significantly distorted after transformation (in the red box). generation [7, 47, 53, 78], editing [31, 43, 105], or percep￾tion [9, 26, 46, 115] by introducing richer token types o… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Pixel-Wise vs. Token Warping. Comparison of inverse warping strategies (Sec. 3.3). (A) Pixel-wise warping retrieves pixels for each target coordinate, but patchifying the warped image introduces local distortions, resulting in degraded MLLM understanding. (B) Token warping directly retrieves intact tokens (or patches) from the source view, preserving semantics and improving viewpoint-aware perception. the … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Fetching Position Noise Sensitivity (Sec. 3.2). Through a toy experiment on CV-Bench-2D [93], where we emulate local positional perturbations and degradation introduced by warping, we find that token representations in MLLMs are highly robust to noise in the image positions from which tokens are fetched. This suggests that tokens are well suited for representing viewpoint changes. token v𝑖 from image I tog… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: ViewBench. Example source-target image pairs with corresponding questions and answers from our ViewBench benchmark. The tasks evaluate MLLM’s ability to infer spatial relationships from nearby viewpoints (Text, Shape), while also measuring robustness to view changes by asking to describe object properties visible in the warped target view (Object). Π𝑆 ∈ R 4×4 , representing the world-to-camera transformati… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Token Fetching Strategies. (A) Nearest fetching selects the closest existing token from the source image grid. (B) Adaptive fetching dynamically crops a patch centered at the mapped coordi￾nate to derive a token precisely centered at the target location [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Warping Visualizations. We compare the warped results of pixel-wise warping, token warping, and the generative NVS output [85]. The rightmost image shows the ground-truth target viewpoint. For token warping, we visualize the RGB image patches corresponding to each token for illustration only. Above each row, we provide the question 𝑄 from ViewBench, and below each image we show the response from Qwen2.5-VL… view at source ↗
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Can warping tokens, rather than pixels, help multimodal large language models (MLLMs) understand how a scene appears from a nearby viewpoint? While MLLMs perform well on visual reasoning, they remain fragile to viewpoint changes, as pixel-wise warping is highly sensitive to small depth errors and often introduces geometric distortions. Drawing on theories of mental imagery that posit part-level structural representations as the basis for human perspective transformation, we examine whether image tokens in ViT-based MLLMs serve as an effective substrate for viewpoint changes. We compare forward and backward warping, finding that backward token warping, which defines a dense grid on the target view and retrieves a corresponding source-view token for each grid point, achieves greater stability and better preserves semantic coherence under viewpoint shifts. Experiments on our proposed ViewBench benchmark demonstrate that token-level warping enables MLLMs to reason reliably from nearby viewpoints, consistently outperforming all baselines including pixel-wise warping approaches, spatially fine-tuned MLLMs, and a generative warping method.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript claims that backward token warping on ViT image tokens allows MLLMs to better reason about scenes from nearby viewpoints compared to pixel warping and other baselines. It introduces the ViewBench benchmark and reports consistent outperformance, attributing this to the tokens serving as part-level structural representations inspired by mental imagery theories.

Significance. Should the findings be substantiated with detailed metrics and controls, this could represent a meaningful advance in making MLLMs more robust to viewpoint variations through efficient token manipulation rather than retraining or pixel-level operations.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Experiments] The abstract states that token-level warping 'consistently outperforming all baselines' on ViewBench, but no specific accuracy numbers, standard deviations, or details on the benchmark construction (e.g., number of scenes, viewpoint shifts) are provided, which is load-bearing for assessing the central empirical claim.
  2. [Theoretical Motivation] The link to mental imagery theories posits part-level representations in tokens, but the manuscript does not include any analysis or ablation showing that the warped tokens maintain part consistency across views; this leaves the interpretation open to alternative explanations such as embedding-space robustness.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Notation] Clarify the exact definition of forward vs backward warping in the methods section, as the distinction is central but described only at high level in the abstract.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below, indicating where revisions have been made to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Experiments] The abstract states that token-level warping 'consistently outperforming all baselines' on ViewBench, but no specific accuracy numbers, standard deviations, or details on the benchmark construction (e.g., number of scenes, viewpoint shifts) are provided, which is load-bearing for assessing the central empirical claim.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including concrete quantitative details. The experimental section already reports accuracy numbers, standard deviations, and full benchmark construction details (including scene count and viewpoint shift ranges). We have revised the abstract to summarize the key performance metrics and benchmark scale for improved readability while preserving its concise nature. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Theoretical Motivation] The link to mental imagery theories posits part-level representations in tokens, but the manuscript does not include any analysis or ablation showing that the warped tokens maintain part consistency across views; this leaves the interpretation open to alternative explanations such as embedding-space robustness.

    Authors: This observation is fair and highlights an opportunity to better support the theoretical framing. While the empirical gains in semantic coherence are shown through end-task performance, we have added a targeted ablation in the revised manuscript that quantifies part-level token consistency across warped views (via cross-view feature alignment metrics), helping differentiate the part-structure hypothesis from general embedding robustness. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical comparison with independent baselines

full rationale

The paper presents a method (backward token warping on ViT tokens) and evaluates it empirically on the newly proposed ViewBench benchmark against multiple external baselines (pixel-wise warping, spatially fine-tuned MLLMs, generative warping). No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. The central claim rests on experimental outperformance rather than any reduction to prior self-defined quantities. The mental-imagery reference is an external citation, not a load-bearing self-citation. This is a standard self-contained empirical study.

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The abstract contains no mathematical derivations, fitted parameters, or new postulated entities; the contribution is an empirical method comparison.

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