Chuan Xuan
2025
Bridging the Dynamic Perception Gap: Training-Free Draft Chain-of-Thought for Dynamic Multimodal Spatial Reasoning
Siqu Ou
|
Hongcheng Liu
|
Pingjie Wang
|
Yusheng Liao
|
Chuan Xuan
|
Yanfeng Wang
|
Yu Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
While chains-of-thought (CoT) have advanced complex reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), existing methods remain confined to text or static visual domains, often faltering in dynamic spatial reasoning tasks. To bridge this gap, we present GRASSLAND, a novel maze navigation benchmark designed to evaluate dynamic spatial reasoning. Our experiments show that augmenting textual reasoning chains with dynamic visual drafts, overlaid on input images, significantly outperforms conventional approaches, offering new insights into spatial reasoning in evolving environments. To generalize this capability, we propose D2R (Dynamic Draft-Augmented Reasoning), a training-free framework that seamlessly integrates textual CoT with corresponding visual drafts into MLLMs. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that D2R consistently enhances performance across diverse tasks, establishing a robust baseline for dynamic spatial reasoning without requiring model fine-tuning.
Search
Fix author
Co-authors
- Yusheng Liao 1
- Hongcheng Liu 1
- Siqu Ou 1
- Pingjie Wang 1
- Yanfeng Wang 1
- show all...