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Fucai Ke, Zhixi Cai, Boying Li, Long Chen, Beibei Lin, Weiqing Wang, Pari Delir Haghighi, Gholamreza Haffari and 1 more

VIEW2SPACE introduces a comprehensive benchmark for multi-view visual reasoning from sparse observations, alongside a methodology based on physically grounded simulation. The research demonstrates that explicitly grounding reasoning steps with visual evidence significantly enhances model performance across classification, counting, and visual grounding tasks, achieving over 77% relative accuracy improvement on MCQ and more than 300% relative mIoU improvement on detection compared to standard instruction tuning.

Key insights

• Current state-of-the-art vision-language and specialized spatial models perform marginally above random guessing on sparse multi-view reasoning tasks, particularly those requiring explicit visual grounding.
• Explicitly grounding intermediate reasoning steps with visual evidence is crucial for robust multi-view reasoning, leading to substantial and consistent performance improvements across all task types.
• While synthetic training data can generalize well to real-world multi-view datasets, scaling data and model size shows diminishing returns for deeper, compositional multi-view reasoning, indicating structural limitations in current linear Chain-of-Thought approaches.

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