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arXiv:2609.39294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise numerical reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for expanding their applicability to complex real-world tasks. However, text-

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EHR-RobustGym: Benchmarking and Training Agents for Robust Clinical Reasoning

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arXiv:2609.39371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In hospital workflows, electronic health records (EHRs) are often noisy, and may not contain the evidence needed to confirm events or measurements refer

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1 Oct 2026

Embedding Physical Reasoning into Diffusion-Based Shadow Generation Under the Sun and Sky

arXiv:2512.06174v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating realistic cast shadows for inserted foreground objects requires reasoning about scene geometry and illumination. However, most learning-b

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1 Oct 2026

From Compound Figures to Medical Multi-image Reasoning: Scaling Multimodal Large Language Models with Biomedical Literature

arXiv:2511.22232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly capable in medical imaging, yet most focus on single-image settings. Clinical interp

1 Oct 2026

A Proposed Rubric for Evaluating Expressed Clinical Reasoning in Large Language Model Responses

arXiv:2609.37788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rubrics support the structured evaluation of language models. We propose a rubric for assessing expressed clinical reasoning in model responses, drawi

Beyond Compression: Diagnosing How Post-Training Changes Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2609.37066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training is central to mathematical reasoning in modern large language models (LLMs), but endpoint pass@1 alone underidentifies what has changed.

Hidden Reasoning Must Leak, but Need Not Be Readable: Fundamental Opportunities and Limits for Chain-of-Thought Monitoring

arXiv:2609.37312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can reasoning models trick chain of thought (CoT) monitors and perform hidden computation without revealing it in their thinking traces? We show that

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Looped Actor: Depth-Recurrent Reasoning Models for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.37432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped reasoning models repeatedly apply a shared set of parameters, enabling more computation without increasing the model size. These models also supp

Rational Clarification by Assistive Agents via Value-of-Information Reasoning

arXiv:2609.37588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users of language-based assistive agents often make ambiguous requests. In response, an assistant can either directly act on its interpretation of the r

Scaling Video Generation for Reasoning: At What Cost?

arXiv:2609.36599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study whether scaling video generation enables models to reason about hidden information from the past frames, and at what computational cost. Our

SCOUT: Synergizing Reasoning and Tool-Use for Computer-Use Safety

arXiv:2609.36201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs), while capable of completing computer tasks in everyday and professional workflows, can cause unintended harm even under be

Agentic Multi-Turn Reasoning: A Fairness Approach

arXiv:2609.33323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled agentic systems capable of solving complex tasks through multi-turn planning, tool use, v

ChemOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Task Chemical Reasoning

arXiv:2609.33838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly expected to support diverse chemical reasoning capabilities within a unified model. One approach is to develop sp

Geometric Encoding for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.34148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are far more reliable at recognizing what appears in a video than at reasoning about its spatial and temporal properties,

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RCVLA: 4D Radar-Grounded Semantic Reasoning and Trajectory Arbitration for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.32681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D radar provides geometric and motion cues that complement visual semantics, but integrating it into vision-language-action (VLA) models requires both

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SpatialSpeak: QA-Native Reconstruction with Local and Global Context for Spatial Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2609.33616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can benefit from geometric priors for multi-view spatial reasoning, yet answer-only training does not directly supervise t

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SphMind: Towards Robust, Training-Free VLM-based Spatial Reasoning with a 360 Camera

arXiv:2609.33462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omnidirectional or 360 cameras provide embodied AI agents with a holistic, wide field-of-view (FoV) view of their surroundings, motivating the use of Mu

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USAI-Quant: A Quantitative Reasoning Benchmark for Vision-Language Models in Built Environments

arXiv:2609.32813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for urban and spatial AI. However, current state-of-the-art large VLMs still str

Does Thinking Help Fairness? Reasoning Tokens Resolve Some Biases but Create More

arXiv:2609.30768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thinking in reasoning language models (RLMs) has been subject to debate on whether it resolves or amplifies bias. Prior works have shown competing concl

28 Sept 2026

DualManip: Agentic Dynamic Manipulation via Dual-Path Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Adaptation

arXiv:2609.31112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) enable open-vocabulary reasoning for robot manipulation, but their high inference latency limits responsiveness in dynamic

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28 Sept 2026

Beyond Spatial Benchmarks: From Spatial Reasoning to Navigation

arXiv:2609.29934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does progress on spatial reasoning benchmarks translate into better navigation? Existing benchmarks test isolated inferences from images or videos, with

MoVISA: Multi-Token Reasoning for Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2609.28956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in video object segmentation with Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) reasoning have demonstrated the effectiveness of using a single

OCC4M: Object-Centric 4D Memory for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Long-Horizon Manipulation

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arXiv:2609.28798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation often requires reasoning about state absent from the current view, such as a vanished object's location, temporal identity, or

Seeing Is Not Measuring: Tool-Augmented Metric Spatial Reasoning for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.29073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) describe scenes well but reason poorly about metric 3D structure such as absolute distances, physical sizes, or egocentric

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Agent0: Unleashing Self-Evolving Agents from Zero Data via Tool-Integrated Reasoning

arXiv:2511.16043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) Agents, often trained with Reinforcement Learning (RL), are constrained by a dependency on human-curated data, limiting s

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Beyond Repeated Sampling: Learning Search Policies for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2609.26704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly tackle hard reasoning problems by spending more test-time compute, yet the dominant strategy remains naive repeated s

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CoEvo: Oracle-Grounded Self-Evolution of a Single Model for Multi-Step Causal Reasoning

arXiv:2609.26094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step causal reasoning requires chaining inferences where each step constrains the next. An early error propagates silently, and a correct answer r

ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains

arXiv:2609.25055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this report we present results of the ICDAR2026 Competition on Multimodal Reasoning over Documents in Multiple Domains. This competition aimed to adv

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Train Where the Quantized Model Goes: On-Policy Distillation for Low-Bit Reasoning

arXiv:2609.26708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization-aware distillation (QAD) restores much of the short-form question-answering performance lost to sub-3-bit quantization, yet leaves mathemat

Human-Level Accuracy, Non-Human Strategies: Revealing Model-Human Divergence in Video Physical Reasoning

arXiv:2609.22788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video foundation models now reach human-level accuracy on physical-reasoning benchmarks, yet such tasks require predicting unobserved physical outcomes.

LLaDA-PRM: A Bidirectional Step-Level Reasoning Evaluator

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arXiv:2609.22700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Step-level reasoning evaluators are commonly based on autoregressive language models, whose causal attention restricts each step representation to the p

Monitorable Chart Reasoning Agents via Verifiable Process Rewards

arXiv:2609.24071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chart reasoning agents are increasingly used to extract actionable insights in critical domains, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benc

StenoVLA-3D: 3D-Aware Reasoning VLA for Navigation Through Gastrointestinal Stenoses

arXiv:2609.24187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous endoscopic navigation requires the policy model to predict actions from texture-poor monocular observations, make safe control decisions, a

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Structured World-State Reasoning for Agentic Robotic Search

arXiv:2609.23841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robotic search must resolve natural language against heterogeneous, incomplete, and often ambiguous evidence: textual information, prior ma

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What are Key Factors for Updates in RL for LLM Reasoning?

arXiv:2606.22570v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a promising framework for enhancing the reasoning ability of large language mod

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SIRA: Reasoning-Aware Surgical Instrument Segmentation via Query-Anchored Alignment

arXiv:2609.21402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) plays a critical role in robotic assistance and surgical workflow analysis. However, most existing SIS methods fo

21 Sept 2026

🚀 Meet Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, Qwen's first omni-modal model built around agentic capabilities! Native audio-video understanding, reasoning, an…

🚀 Meet Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, Qwen's first omni-modal model built around agentic capabilities! Native audio-video understanding, reasoning, and tool use come together in one model: understand the content

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A Four-Stage Decomposition of Word-Problem Solving and Mechanistic Fragility in LLM Math Reasoning

arXiv:2609.17804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models solve grade-school math word problems with high accuracy, yet a single irrelevant clause inserted into the problem can collapse it

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Disentangling Long-Term Memory via Latent Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning

arXiv:2609.18461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized agents are required to reason over long-term history interactions to infer both explicit preferences and implicit behavioral evidence. Whil

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Does Moral Reasoning Training Help or Hurt? Red-Teaming RL-Trained Ethical Agents with Persona Attacks

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arXiv:2609.17552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Moral-reward RL can make language-model agents more cooperative, but whether that alignment survives adversarial persona pressure is unknown. Such attac

The Missing 'I Don't Know': Why Three Reasoning-Reliability Findings Converge on Calibrated Abstention

arXiv:2609.17686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Three recent results describe what look like unrelated LLM reliability problems. Yin et al. (2026) show reasoning RL collapses tool-reliability repres

Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generation

arXiv:2512.24100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current state-of-the-art paradigms predominantly treat Text-to-Motion (T2M) generation as a direct translation problem, mapping symbolic language di

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Can LLMs Model Incorrect Student Reasoning? A Case Study on Distractor Generation

arXiv:2603.15547v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modeling student misconceptions in a realistic manner is critical for AI in education. In this work, we examine how large language models (LLM

16 Sept 2026

What Do Hallucinations Reveal About Multimodal Reasoning? Diagnosing Visual Grounding Failures via Contrastive Decoding Probes

arXiv:2609.16646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When strong multimodal models are widely available, progress requires new scientific methodologies beyond benchmark scores---using models as instruments

16 Sept 2026

Circuit-MLLM: Topological Logic-Guided Latent-Space Visual Reasoning for Circuit Schematic Understanding

arXiv:2609.15668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Through pre-training on extensive text and image datasets, current multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on general tas

15 Sept 2026

E2A-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence-to-Action Reliability in Financial Chart Reasoning

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arXiv:2609.14302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can financial vision-language models (VLMs) turn chart evidence into reliable action recommendations? Existing hallucination evaluations are mostly clai

15 Sept 2026

LPA-CWM: A Learned Physical Adjudicator for Motion Reasoning with Counterfactual World Models

arXiv:2609.14073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Counterfactual world models (CWM) extract motion from pretrained video predictors by comparing factual and intervened predictions. However, responses

15 Sept 2026

Sci-MMR: Benchmarking Multi-Step Evidence-Grounded Scientific Reasoning in Multimodal Agents

arXiv:2609.11243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research agents are increasingly expected to search the literature, analyze experimental evidence, and generate scientific hypotheses. These