UniVLR unifies textual and visual reasoning in multimodal LLMs by compressing reasoning traces and auxiliary images into visual latent tokens for direct inference without interleaved text CoT.
citation dossier
Latent visual reasoning.CoRR, abs/2509.24251
17Pith papers citing it
19reference links
cs.CVtop field · 13 papers
UNVERDICTEDtop verdict bucket · 15 papers
why this work matters in Pith
Pith has found this work in 17 reviewed papers. Its strongest current cluster is cs.CV (13 papers). The largest review-status bucket among citing papers is UNVERDICTED (15 papers). For highly cited works, this page shows a dossier first and a bounded explorer second; it never tries to render every citing paper at once.
years
2026 17representative citing papers
HyLaR with DePO enables effective RL in hybrid discrete-continuous spaces for multimodal models, outperforming prior MLLMs on perception and understanding benchmarks.
V-Reflection introduces a think-then-look mechanism where MLLM latent states actively interrogate visual features via two-stage distillation from a box-guided teacher to a dynamic autoregressive student, narrowing the fine-grained perception gap on benchmarks.
RIS improves MLLM latent visual reasoning by retrieving spatial-semantic evidence, integrating it via attention bottlenecks, and synthesizing it with language transition tokens, yielding gains on V*, HRBench, MMVP, and BLINK benchmarks.
4DThinker enables VLMs to perform dynamic spatial reasoning by internally simulating 4D imagery in latent space, outperforming prior text-based and modular approaches.
HypEHR is a hyperbolic embedding model for EHR data that uses Lorentzian geometry and hierarchy-aware pretraining to answer clinical questions nearly as well as large language models but with much smaller size.
Visual replay module and adaptive depth scaling improve multimodal latent reasoning, reaching SOTA benchmarks with faster inference than explicit chain-of-thought methods.
GRASP improves multimodal sarcasm target identification by anchoring visual regions in grounded chain-of-thought reasoning and using dual-stage optimization on a new balanced dataset.
Q-Zoom achieves up to 4.39x inference speedup in high-resolution MLLM scenarios via query-aware gating and region localization, matching or exceeding baseline accuracy on document and high-res benchmarks.
MAPO improves multimodal chain-of-thought reasoning by requiring explicit textual descriptions of visual tool results and using a novel advantage estimator that combines semantic alignment with task rewards.
GAP aligns visual latent reasoning in MLLMs at feature, context, and capacity levels, yielding the best aggregate perception and reasoning scores on Qwen2.5-VL 7B among supervised variants while providing task-relevant visual signal at inference time.
TTSP resolves the Grounding Paradox by treating perception as a scalable test-time process that generates, filters, and iteratively refines multiple visual exploration traces, outperforming baselines on high-resolution and multimodal reasoning tasks.
MedLVR interleaves latent visual reasoning segments in autoregressive decoding and uses two-stage training to raise average medical VQA accuracy from 48.3% to 53.4% over a Qwen2.5-VL-7B backbone on OmniMedVQA and five other benchmarks.
HDPO reframes tool efficiency as a conditional objective within accurate trajectories, enabling Metis to reduce tool invocations by orders of magnitude while raising reasoning accuracy.
DLR is a new reinforced latent reasoning method for VLMs that decomposes queries, uses continuous visual latents, and outperforms text-only and multimodal CoT baselines on vision-centric benchmarks with better interpretability.
citing papers explorer
-
UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs
UniVLR unifies textual and visual reasoning in multimodal LLMs by compressing reasoning traces and auxiliary images into visual latent tokens for direct inference without interleaved text CoT.
-
Hybrid Latent Reasoning with Decoupled Policy Optimization
HyLaR with DePO enables effective RL in hybrid discrete-continuous spaces for multimodal models, outperforming prior MLLMs on perception and understanding benchmarks.
-
V-Reflection: Transforming MLLMs from Passive Observers to Active Interrogators
V-Reflection introduces a think-then-look mechanism where MLLM latent states actively interrogate visual features via two-stage distillation from a box-guided teacher to a dynamic autoregressive student, narrowing the fine-grained perception gap on benchmarks.
-
Retrieve, Integrate, and Synthesize: Spatial-Semantic Grounded Latent Visual Reasoning
RIS improves MLLM latent visual reasoning by retrieving spatial-semantic evidence, integrating it via attention bottlenecks, and synthesizing it with language transition tokens, yielding gains on V*, HRBench, MMVP, and BLINK benchmarks.
-
4DThinker: Thinking with 4D Imagery for Dynamic Spatial Understanding
4DThinker enables VLMs to perform dynamic spatial reasoning by internally simulating 4D imagery in latent space, outperforming prior text-based and modular approaches.
-
HypEHR: Hyperbolic Modeling of Electronic Health Records for Efficient Question Answering
HypEHR is a hyperbolic embedding model for EHR data that uses Lorentzian geometry and hierarchy-aware pretraining to answer clinical questions nearly as well as large language models but with much smaller size.
-
Visual Enhanced Depth Scaling for Multimodal Latent Reasoning
Visual replay module and adaptive depth scaling improve multimodal latent reasoning, reaching SOTA benchmarks with faster inference than explicit chain-of-thought methods.
-
GRASP: Grounded CoT Reasoning with Dual-Stage Optimization for Multimodal Sarcasm Target Identification
GRASP improves multimodal sarcasm target identification by anchoring visual regions in grounded chain-of-thought reasoning and using dual-stage optimization on a new balanced dataset.
-
Q-Zoom: Query-Aware Adaptive Perception for Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models
Q-Zoom achieves up to 4.39x inference speedup in high-resolution MLLM scenarios via query-aware gating and region localization, matching or exceeding baseline accuracy on document and high-res benchmarks.
-
Walk the Talk: Bridging the Reasoning-Action Gap for Thinking with Images via Multimodal Agentic Policy Optimization
MAPO improves multimodal chain-of-thought reasoning by requiring explicit textual descriptions of visual tool results and using a novel advantage estimator that combines semantic alignment with task rewards.
-
Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
GAP aligns visual latent reasoning in MLLMs at feature, context, and capacity levels, yielding the best aggregate perception and reasoning scores on Qwen2.5-VL 7B among supervised variants while providing task-relevant visual signal at inference time.
-
Test-time Scaling over Perception: Resolving the Grounding Paradox in Thinking with Images
TTSP resolves the Grounding Paradox by treating perception as a scalable test-time process that generates, filters, and iteratively refines multiple visual exploration traces, outperforming baselines on high-resolution and multimodal reasoning tasks.
-
MedLVR: Latent Visual Reasoning for Reliable Medical Visual Question Answering
MedLVR interleaves latent visual reasoning segments in autoregressive decoding and uses two-stage training to raise average medical VQA accuracy from 48.3% to 53.4% over a Qwen2.5-VL-7B backbone on OmniMedVQA and five other benchmarks.
-
Act Wisely: Cultivating Meta-Cognitive Tool Use in Agentic Multimodal Models
HDPO reframes tool efficiency as a conditional objective within accurate trajectories, enabling Metis to reduce tool invocations by orders of magnitude while raising reasoning accuracy.
-
Decompose, Look, and Reason: Reinforced Latent Reasoning for VLMs
DLR is a new reinforced latent reasoning method for VLMs that decomposes queries, uses continuous visual latents, and outperforms text-only and multimodal CoT baselines on vision-centric benchmarks with better interpretability.
- Self-Consistent Latent Reasoning: Long Latent Sequence Reasoning for Vision-Language Model
- CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving