Key papers

• Orca: The World is in Your Mind (2026)
  Yihao Wang et al.
  14.63
• STEP3-VL-10B Technical Report (2026)
  Ailin Huang et al.
  12.96
• Urban Socio-Semantic Segmentation with Vision-Language Reasoning (2026)
  Yu Wang et al.
  12.47
• Vision-DeepResearch: Incentivizing DeepResearch Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models (2026)
  Wenxuan Huang et al.
  12.47
• Sports-QA: A Large-Scale Video Question Answering Benchmark for Complex and Professional Sports (2024)
  Haopeng Li et al.
  12.40
• Vision-DeepResearch Benchmark: Rethinking Visual and Textual Search for Multimodal Large Language Models (2026)
  Yu Zeng et al.
  11.94
• Scaling Properties of Text Conditioning in Visual Generation (2026)
  Zilong Chen et al.
  11.85
• Everything in Its Place: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence of Text-to-Image Models (2026)
  Zengbin Wang et al.
  11.75
• V-Zero: Answer-Label-Free On-Policy Distillation with Contrastive Evidence Gating for Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning (2026)
  Haoxiang Sun et al.
  11.36
• Task-Focused Memorization for Multimodal Agents (2026)
  Tao Zou et al.
  11.14
• VisualClaw: A Real-Time, Personalized Agent for the Physical World (2026)
  Haoqin Tu et al.
  11.11
• Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning (2026)
  Lei Zhang et al.
  11.00
• DeepVoyager-VL: Incentivizing Vision-in-the-Loop Search for Long-Horizon Multimodal Agents (2026)
  Huanyao Zhang et al.
  10.97
• 3DZip: Spatial-Aware Feature Diversity-Guided Token Compression for 3D Question Answering (2026)
  Changwoo Baek et al.
  10.83
• Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception (2026)
  Lai Wei et al.
  10.61
• OmniVideo-100K: A Dataset for Audio-Visual Reasoning through Structured Scripts and Evidence Chains (2026)
  Xinyue Cai et al.
  10.48
• MM-Zero: Self-Evolving Multi-Model Vision Language Models From Zero Data (2026)
  Zongxia Li et al.
  10.30
• Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning (2026)
  Chi-Pin Huang et al.
  10.26
• AURA: Always-On Understanding and Real-Time Assistance via Video Streams (2026)
  Xudong Lu et al.
  10.23
• Scaling Native Multimodal Pre-Training From Scratch (2026)
  Haoyuan Wu et al.
  10.19
• VideoDetective: Clue Hunting via both Extrinsic Query and Intrinsic Relevance for Long Video Understanding (2026)
  Ruoliu Yang et al.
  10.13
• Bridging VideoQA and Video-Guided Agentic Tasks via Generalized Keyframe Extraction (2026)
  Sunqi Fan et al.
  10.13
• InternVL-U: Democratizing Unified Multimodal Models for Understanding, Reasoning, Generation and Editing (2026)
  Changyao Tian et al.
  10.09
• Think3D: Thinking with Space for Spatial Reasoning (2026)
  Zaibin Zhang et al.
  9.98
• GROVE: Growing and Reasoning over Temporally Stratified Memory from Streaming Video Experience (2026)
  Sitong Gong et al.
  9.96
• Breaking Failure Cascades: Step-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Medical Multimodal Reasoning (2026)
  Junha Jung et al.
  9.95
• SkinFlow: Efficient Information Transmission for Open Dermatological Diagnosis via Dynamic Visual Encoding and Staged RL (2026)
  Lijun Liu et al.
  9.54
• Watch Before You Answer: Learning from Visually Grounded Post-Training (2026)
  Yuxuan Zhang et al.
  9.54
• Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding (2026)
  Zhenghao Xing et al.
  9.48
• IV-CoT: Implicit Visual Chain-of-Thought for Structure-Aware Text-to-Image Generation (2026)
  Zixuan Li et al.
  9.48
• Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey (2024)
  Yizhang Jin et al.
  9.43
• VideoAuto-R1: Video Auto Reasoning via Thinking Once, Answering Twice (2026)
  Shuming Liu et al.
  9.37
• Reinforcing Dual-Path Reasoning in Spatial Vision Language Models (2026)
  Yatai Ji et al.
  9.07
• SingGuard: A Policy-Adaptive Multimodal LLM Guardrail with Dynamic Reasoning (2026)
  SingGuard Team
  9.00
• CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models (2025)
  Qingqing Zhao et al.
  8.89
• Audio-Visual Flamingo: Open Audio-Visual Intelligence for Long and Complex Videos (2026)
  Sreyan Ghosh et al.
  8.80
• Stateful Visual Encoders for Vision-Language Models (2026)
  Zirui Wang et al.
  8.46
• CanvasAgent: Enabling Complex Image Creation and Editing via Visual Tool Orchestration (2026)
  Hairui Zhu et al.
  8.40
• Two-Level Meta-Rubrics for Evaluating Open-Ended Generation: GAMUT, a Benchmark for Factual Completeness (2026)
  Xilun Chen et al.
  8.40
• ViTextVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset and a Novel Multimodal Feature Fusion Method for Vietnamese Text Comprehension in Images (2024)
  Quan Van Nguyen et al.
  8.37
• ProMSA:Progressive Multimodal Search Agents for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (2026)
  ZhengXian Wu et al.
  8.34
• Medgemma Technical Report (2025)
  Andrew Sellergren, Sahar Kazemzadeh, Tiam Jaroensri, et al.
  8.23
• Are Text-to-Image Models Inductivist Turkeys? A Counterfactual Benchmark for Causal Reasoning (2026)
  Jiayi Lei et al.
  8.12
• Seeing Isn't Knowing: Do VLMs Know When Not to Answer Spatial Questions (and Why)? (2026)
  Yue Zhang et al.
  8.07
• Unlocking the Visual Record of Materials Science: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset from Scientific Literature (2026)
  Subham Ghosh et al.
  7.86
• Chat-driven Text Generation And Interaction For Person Retrieval (2025)
  Zequn Xie, Chuxin Wang, Sihang Cai, et al.
  7.75
• Seeing Is Not Sharing: Some Vision-Language Models Overestimate Common Ground in Asymmetric Dialogue (2026)
  Nan Li et al.
  7.73
• What Users Leave Unsaid: Under-Specified Queries Limit Vision-Language Models (2026)
  Dasol Choi et al.
  7.70
• Human-centered Interactive Learning Via Mllms For Text-to-image Person Re-identification (2025)
  Yang Qin, Chao Chen, Zhihang Fu, et al.
  7.61
• Thinking in Frames: How Visual Context and Test-Time Scaling Empower Video Reasoning (2026)
  Chengzu Li et al.
  7.57
• Semirnet: A Semantic Irony Recognition Network For Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (2025)
  Jingxuan Zhou, Yuehao Wu, Yibo Zhang, et al.
  7.46
• Less Detail, Better Answers: Degradation-Driven Prompting for VQA (2026)
  Haoxuan Han et al.
  7.45
• Qwen3-VL Technical Report (2025)
  Shuai Bai et al.
  7.41
• Loc3R-VLM: Language-based Localization and 3D Reasoning with Vision-Language Models (2026)
  Kevin Qu et al.
  7.40
• VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction (2026)
  Jiarong Liang et al.
  7.34
• Mathcoder-vl: Bridging Vision And Code For Enhanced Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning (2025)
  Ke Wang, Junting Pan, Linda Wei, et al.
  7.33
• Disasterm3: A Remote Sensing Vision-language Dataset For Disaster Damage Assessment And Response (2025)
  Junjue Wang, Weihao Xuan, Heli Qi, et al.
  7.31
• LaViT: Aligning Latent Visual Thoughts for Multi-modal Reasoning (2026)
  Linquan Wu et al.
  7.28
• Rethinking Composed Image Retrieval Evaluation: A Fine-Grained Benchmark from Image Editing (2026)
  Tingyu Song et al.
  7.28
• SAGE: A Visual Language Model For Anomaly Detection Via Fact Enhancement And Entropy-aware Alignment (2025)
  Guoxin Zang, Xue Li, Donglin di, et al.
  7.23