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REALHOP: Rethinking Multi-Hop Reasoning Evaluation via Behavioral Auditing

arXiv:2609.36984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex questions often require multi-hop reasoning that connects facts distributed across sources or distant regions of a long context through intermed

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30 Sept 2026

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SAM Meets VLM: Parameter-Decoupled Full-Parameter Training for Unified Medical Reasoning and Segmentation

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arXiv:2609.37283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly expected not only to answer clinical questions, but also to localize the visual eviden

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30 Sept 2026

Think, Then Look: Active Spatial Reasoning for House-Scale 3D Scene Understanding

arXiv:2512.03284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatial reasoning in large-scale 3D environments remains challenging for current vision--language models, which are typically constrained to room-sc

30 Sept 2026

Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning

arXiv:2609.38147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agents take on longer and more complex problems, controlling the execution becomes a task in its own right. Each step in the run brings new control c

30 Sept 2026

EngIntervene: Benchmarking Multimodal Engineering State Understanding and Design Intervention Reasoning

arXiv:2609.33261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal engineering benchmarks largely evaluate static understanding, such as recognizing components, interpreting diagrams, or answering technical q

From Perception to Integration: Revisiting the Internal Dynamics of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.34809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can answer simple visual questions, but often struggle when one question requires several visual judgments. We study this

Long Time No See: Benchmarking VLMs for Out-of-Sight Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Egocentric Videos

arXiv:2609.34630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world AI systems must reason about objects that are no longer visible: an AR assistant guiding a user back to an object used earlier, a household r

OPERA: A Unified Omnimodal Progressive Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Agent for Referring Video Segmentation

arXiv:2609.33338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring video segmentation with heterogeneous multimodal queries---spanning text, audio, and reference images---demands both robust cross-modal unders

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Resolving State-Representation Mismatch: State-Space Visual Reasoning for Open-Loop VLA Planning

arXiv:2609.33412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid progress in vision-language-action (VLA) models, existing reasoning paradigms still face a fundamental state-representation mismatch in op

Surprising Success, Repeated Failure: Entropy-Guided Credit Assignment for Exploration in LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2609.33781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) enhances reasoning in large language models (LLMs) through outcome-level feedback, yet recent appr

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Test-Time Spatial Reasoning for Robot Manipulation Using Generative Real-to-Sim

arXiv:2609.33982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning is fundamental to general robot intelligence, as it enables robots to complete long-horizon tasks involving multi-object interaction

Who Is Left of Whom? Tracing Spatial Evidence and Role Binding in Relative-Position Reasoning

arXiv:2609.35486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High instance-level accuracy can mask inconsistencies in spatial reasoning when objects exchange positions or their roles are reversed in the query. T

HIRE: History-Conditioned Interaction Reasoning and High-Rate Execution for Visually Aliased Precision Manipulation

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arXiv:2609.30828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision manipulation with contact-critical interactions is often history-dependent: visually similar observations can correspond to different latent i

28 Sept 2026

CataOPD: Catalytic On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2609.29518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) and on-policy distillation (OPD) are two representative paradigms for improving large language model reasoning. However, whe

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25 Sept 2026

DrGait: Biomechanically Grounded Visual Reasoning for Interpretable Clinical Gait Analysis

arXiv:2609.28796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current automated gait analysis for clinical applications relies on uninterpretable black-box classifiers. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offe

25 Sept 2026

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AnchorReasoning: A Visual Grounding and Causal Reasoning Dataset in Long-Tail Autonomous Driving Scenarios

arXiv:2609.28366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to long-tail autonomous driving, but existing driving datasets provide limited supervision fo

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Building multimodal models for spatial reasoning

What is spatial reasoning? AI is moving beyond the digital world. The next generation of AI systems needs to understand and interact with physical environments, from robots to autonomous systems navig

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RexDrug: Reliable Multi-Drug Combination Extraction through Reasoning-Enhanced LLMs

arXiv:2603.08166v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated Drug Combination Extraction (DCE) from large-scale biomedical literature is crucial for advancing precision medicine and pharmacological r

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Scaling of Capability and Efficiency at Inference Time in Large Reasoning Models

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arXiv:2609.27166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Capability and efficiency are two key dimensions of reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Capability refers to the ability to solve a given problem

HARMONY: Hierarchical Agentic Reasoning for MONocular Image-to-Scene Synthesis

arXiv:2609.26793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional 3D scene reconstruction has recently been explored from two directions: agentic reasoning that provides semantic understanding of spatial

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23 Sept 2026

VLM-in-Sandbox: Visual Workspaces for Agentic Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2609.24362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sandboxed computer environments support multi-step reasoning with tools, executable programs, and persistent files, yet their extension from language mo

23 Sept 2026

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Do Chess Explanations Reflect Model Decisions? Behavioral and Token-Level Tests of LLM Reasoning Faithfulness

arXiv:2609.22245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can produce fluent explanations for chess moves, but plausible language does not necessarily reflect the reasoning behind a decisi

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22 Sept 2026

INTCORT: Training-Free Spatial Reasoning Enhancement for Vision-Language Models via Input Transformations and Confidence Routing

arXiv:2609.24813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in multimodal tasks, yet they still exhibit poor ability in spatial reasoning. E

22 Sept 2026

A Qualitative Model for Reasoning about Path and Support

arXiv:2609.20349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial reasoning abilities correlate strongly with performance in STEM fields. Games offer a compelling medium for training these critical skills in de

18 Sept 2026

Recursive Reasoning or Statistical Extrapolation? In-Context Learning in Multi-Agent Interdependent Decision-Making

arXiv:2609.18591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) enables large language model (LLM) agents to improve decisions using interaction history, yet it remains unclear whether such

17 Sept 2026

What Counts as Strategic Reasoning? A Systematic Mapping of Chess Research on Humans, Engines, and Language Models

arXiv:2609.18286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chess has long served as a model domain for studying search, expertise, decision-making, and artificial intelligence. The emergence of large language mo

17 Sept 2026

MOCC-R1: Reinforcing Reasoning-Response Consistency for Multimodal Counselor Response Generation

arXiv:2609.17180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal counselor response generation (MCRG) aims to generate an appropriate counselor response from multimodal dialogue histories. Progress is limit

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16 Sept 2026

At Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: At Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce — Salesforce

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Concept-Grounded Reasoning with Prompt-Driven Localization for Interpretable Structured Report Generation

arXiv:2609.15334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical imaging modalities such as ultrasound and X-ray are widely used in clinical practice, where diagnosis follows a structured, evidence-driven wo

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Cut Qwen3.8-27B Reasoning Tokens by 40% -- 3.8 'ThinkingCap' benchmarked!

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EDIT: Sorry for the unclear title. This model is UkisAI's Swift-Qwen3.8-27B, not a new version of BottleCap AI's 3.6-ThinkingCap. All credit goes to UkisAI for making great fine-tune, and I made this

SyRHM: Symbolic-Language-Enhanced Reasoning with Associative Retrieval for Zero-shot Harmful Meme Detection

arXiv:2609.13794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting harmful memes is critical for maintaining safe online communities. However, harmful intent is often implicit, arising from visual-textual inco

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TRACTA: Benchmarking Temporal Reasoning over Semantic Trajectories

arXiv:2607.22365v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-complexity operational environments require methods that characterize temporally distributed patterns rather than classify isolated events. Thi

AnchorVLN: Geometry-Anchored Vision-Language Grounding Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Navigation

arXiv:2609.12285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) in unseen indoor environments is useful in real-world robotics, where an agent must follow natural-language instructi

Physics as the label for measuring and correcting materials reasoning in multimodal models

arXiv:2609.12181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language and language models increasingly interpret materials data, yet benchmarks report that they hallucinate invalid properties and violate ph

QuPAINT: Physics-Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Quantum Material Characterization

arXiv:2609.12202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Characterizing two-dimensional (2D) quantum materials by optical microscopy requires localizing exfoliated flakes and determining their layer thickness

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Repair Before Reinforce: Context-Augmented Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering

arXiv:2609.12230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Question-answering often requires reasoning across multiple connected facts rather than retrieving a single isolated relation. Knowledge graphs (KGs) pr

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Scaling Online Complex Event Detection with Synthetic Supervision and Mamba-Based Neural Algorithmic Reasoning

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arXiv:2502.07250v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern machine learning models excel at detecting individual actions, sounds, or scene attributes from short, localized observations. However, many

Tasks over Application Manuals: Revealing Gaps in Long-Horizon Procedural Reasoning for Language Models

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arXiv:2609.13005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on a wide range of natural language tasks, and recent benchmarks suggest that they are inc

Autonomous Chemical Mechanistic Discovery through Agentic Reasoning and Validation

arXiv:2609.11147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unraveling reaction mechanisms is central to modern chemistry, yet automating these investigations remains challenging because computational workflows s

12 Sept 2026

Magenta: Closing the Loop Between Mathematical Reasoning and Lean Verification

arXiv:2609.11319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most of mathematical knowledge has been communicated through so-called informal use of mathematics and natural language. With large language models (LLM

12 Sept 2026

Think Before You Link: Rarity, Reasoning, and Retrieval in Multilingual Entity Linking

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arXiv:2609.10745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal entity linking grounds entity mentions in text and images to knowledge-base entries. These systems degrade on rare entities, but prior work m

11 Sept 2026

Which Tokens Should SFT Actually Learn? A Token-Trimming Perspective on Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2609.09707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) applies a uniform cross-entropy loss to all target tokens, even though different tokens provide unequal learning signals fo

11 Sept 2026

Audio-Maestro: Enhancing Large Audio-Language Models with Tool-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2510.11454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advancements in large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown strong capabilities in audio understanding. However, most systems rely solely

GigaChat-3.5-Reasoning

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Hey y'all! We've released a new model in our lineup: GigaChat-3.5 Reasoning. It's a 432B-A28B MoE with Gated DeltaNet for long-context efficiency. We trained domain experts (code, math, general, etc.)

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HoarePrompt: Structural Reasoning About Program Correctness in Natural Language

arXiv:2503.19599v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While software requirements are often expressed in natural language, verifying the correctness of a program against such requirements is a har

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When Tools Hurt LLM Reasoning: State-Dependent Belief Revision under External Evidence

arXiv:2508.15754v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tool use is often assumed to monotonically improve reasoning, where external evidence is expected to help when relevant and be ignored when ir

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CARDEA: Auditable Reasoning Grounded in Spatial Evidence for End-to-End Coronary Angiography Interpretation

arXiv:2609.06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Invasive coronary angiography (CAG) is the gold standard for diagnosing coronary artery disease, but interpretation varies substantially among observers

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9 Sept 2026

CoVeR: Coverage-Based Token Pruning for Multi-View 3D Reasoning in VLMs

arXiv:2609.08345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representing a 3D scene as multi-view images allows 2D VLMs to reason in 3D by reusing priors from pre-training, sidestepping the scarcity of annotated