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New IVT Framework Cuts Video Reasoning Latency by 5x

Researchers have developed Internalized Visual Thinking (IVT), a new framework designed to enhance proactive video reasoning in multimodal large language models. Unlike existing Visual CoT methods that generate intermediate images, IVT trains models to predict future visual representations during training. This allows the model to reason directly at inference time, significantly reducing latency by over five times while maintaining or improving performance on various video reasoning tasks. The findings suggest that explicit pixel-space generation is not essential for effective video reasoning, and internalized predictive world modeling can lead to more accurate and efficient multimodal reasoners. AI

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New IVT Framework Cuts Video Reasoning Latency by 5x

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaoyu Zhu, Xinke Deng, Suresh Taddewadikar, Arnab Kumar Mondal, Zhongyu Jiang, Ian Fasel, Joerg Liebelt ·

    Beyond Visual CoT: Internalized Visual Thinking for Proactive Video Reasoning

    arXiv:2608.15869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments. By generating intermediate reasoning images, Visual CoT provides an intuitive mec…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Beyond Visual CoT: Internalized Visual Thinking for Proactive Video Reasoning

    Internalized Visual Thinking trains multimodal models to predict future frame embeddings during post-training, enabling direct answer generation at inference without synthesizing intermediate images and cutting latency over fivefold.