Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves vision-language models (VLMs) by optimizing outcome rewards derived from final answers. However, such outcome-only rewards do not tell the model which image regions justify an answer. For questions that require visual grounding, these rewards cannot distinguish responses supported by relevant visual evidence from those produced by language-prior shortcuts or lucky guesses. We introduce **EASE** (Evidence-Anchored Spatial Attention), which augments multimodal RLVR with visual-evidence process supervision. EASE converts annotated evidence regions into a smoothed visual-token target and uses it to guide response-to-image attention during RL training, but only on high-reward trajectories. The annotations are used solely as privileged training labels, while inference requires only the original image and question. Across Qwen2.5-VL-7B, Qwen3-VL-4B, and Qwen3-VL-8B, EASE raises average scores over DAPO by 2.5 to 3.1 points on perception, hallucination, visual math, and multimodal reasoning benchmarks. Diagnostics and ablations show that EASE better aligns visual attention with annotated evidence regions. Code are available at https://github.com/Nrich-sunny/Attend-to-Evidence/.

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) with discrete self-supervised representations has achieved remarkable accuracy, but is unable to preserve the speaker timbre of the source speech. Meanwhile, the scarcity of high-quality speaker-parallel data poses a challenge for learning style transfer during translation. We design an S2ST pipeline with style-transfer capability on the basis of discrete self-supervised speech representations and codec units. The acoustic language model we introduce for style transfer leverages self-supervised in-context learning, acquiring style transfer ability without relying on any speaker-parallel data, thereby overcoming data scarcity. By using extensive training data, our model achieves zero-shot cross-lingual style transfer on previously unseen source languages. Experiments show that our model generates translated speeches with high fidelity and speaker similarity. Audio samples are available at http://stylelm.github.io/ .

Deductive reasoning is a crucial cognitive ability of humanity, allowing us to derive valid conclusions from premises and observations. However, existing works mainly focus on language-based premises and generally neglect deductive reasoning from visual observations. In this work, we introduce rule bAsed futuRe-inference deducTion (ART), which aims at deducing the correct future event based on the visual phenomenon (a video) and the rule-based premises, along with an explanation of the reasoning process. To advance this field, we construct a large-scale densely annotated dataset (Video-ART), where the premises, future event candidates, the reasoning process explanation, and auxiliary commonsense knowledge (e.g., actions and appearance) are annotated by annotators. Upon Video-ART, we develop a strong baseline named ARTNet. In essence, guided by commonsense knowledge, ARTNet learns to identify the target video character and perceives its visual clues related to the future event. Then, ARTNet rigorously applies the given premises to conduct reasoning from the identified information to future events, through a non-parametric rule reasoning network and a reasoning-path review module. Empirical studies validate the rationality of ARTNet in deductive reasoning upon visual observations and the effectiveness over existing works.