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New NV-CoT framework enables MLLMs to reason over images with continuous coordinates

Researchers have introduced Numerical Visual Chain-of-Thought (NV-CoT), a novel framework that allows Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to perform region-grounded reasoning over images using continuous numerical coordinates. This approach expands the model's action space from discrete tokens to a continuous Euclidean space, enabling direct generation of bounding-box coordinates with minimal architectural changes. NV-CoT supports both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, utilizing Gaussian or Laplace policies and reparameterized sampling for policy optimization. Experiments show NV-CoT significantly enhances localization precision, final answer accuracy, and training convergence compared to existing visual reasoning baselines. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve the precision and efficiency of visual reasoning in multimodal AI systems.

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New NV-CoT framework enables MLLMs to reason over images with continuous coordinates

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Kesen Zhao, Beier Zhu, Junbao Zhou, Xingyu Zhu, Zhongqi Yue, Hanwang Zhang ·

    Thinking with Images as Continuous Actions: Numerical Visual Chain-of-Thought

    arXiv:2602.23959v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent MLLMs increasingly rely on visual chain-of-thought to perform region-grounded reasoning over images. However, existing approaches ground regions via either textified coordinates (causing modality mismatch and semantic fra…