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Hexiong Yang, Mingrui Chen, Jie Cao, Ran He

The authors present VLM-in-Sandbox, a workspace for managing visual evidence during multi-step reasoning. It records generated images with stable IDs and provenance, keeps files available, and lets the model promote selected artifacts into focus and aux slots. On 1,260 examples, it reached 66.27% pooled accuracy versus 64.44% for an automatic retain-all control, using 18.6% fewer tokens; selection alone was inconclusive.

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