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New benchmark reveals MLLMs struggle with complex visual reasoning · 2 sources tracked

A new benchmark called TriViewBench has been developed to assess the structural reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). The benchmark, comprising synthetic 3D scenes with varying object counts and occlusions, reveals that all 18 evaluated MLLMs exhibit a consistent performance hierarchy, with capabilities degrading significantly as complexity increases. Specifically, global recovery tasks collapse severely, while object counting also shows substantial degradation. The research indicates that current MLLMs face fundamental scalability limitations in cross-view spatial representation, and Chain-of-Thought prompting offers minimal benefit. AI

IMPACT Highlights fundamental limitations in MLLM scalability for complex visual reasoning, potentially guiding future model development.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Lan-Zhe Guo ·

    TriViewBench: Controlled Complexity Scaling for Multi-View Structural Reasoning in MLLMs

    Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong performance on standard visual question answering benchmarks, yet their scalability under controlled structural complexity remains poorly understood. We introduce TriViewBench, a controlled three-view visual reasoning be…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yu-Yang Chen, Lan-Zhe Guo ·

    TriViewBench: Controlled Complexity Scaling for Multi-View Structural Reasoning in MLLMs

    arXiv:2606.26029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong performance on standard visual question answering benchmarks, yet their scalability under controlled structural complexity remains poorly understood. We introduce TriViewBe…