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New WM-VLM model uses visual states for interleaved reasoning

Researchers have developed WM-VLM, a novel approach that equips vision-language models (VLMs) with a lightweight world model branch to generate intermediate visual states. This allows VLMs to reason using both text and visual simulations, a departure from traditional text-centric methods. The two-stage training process first trains the model to generate subsequent visual states and then to utilize these states for reasoning. Experiments on mental rotation tasks demonstrated that WM-VLM significantly outperforms its supervised fine-tuned backbone, showing gains of up to 39.25 percentage points, and that these improvements are dependent on the generated visual states. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more capable vision-language models that can perform complex spatial reasoning by simulating visual transformations.

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New WM-VLM model uses visual states for interleaved reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuheng Zha, Yilei Wang, Qiyue Gao, Junrong Chen, Yujia Wu, Zhengfeng Lai, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing ·

    WM-VLM: Probing Internal World Models for Interleaved Visual-Textual Reasoning

    arXiv:2609.34826v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans often solve spatial problems by mentally simulating visual transformations. In contrast, conventional vision-language models (VLMs) reason primarily through language. We investigate whether VLMs can solve spatial problems…