Integrating Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Alignment: A Study on 3D Vision-Language Learning

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Autores principales: Chen, Yanjun, Sun, Yirong, Chen, Xinghao, Wang, Jian, Shen, Xiaoyu, Li, Wenjie, Zhang, Wei
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author Chen, Yanjun
Sun, Yirong
Chen, Xinghao
Wang, Jian
Shen, Xiaoyu
Li, Wenjie
Zhang, Wei
author_facet Chen, Yanjun
Sun, Yirong
Chen, Xinghao
Wang, Jian
Shen, Xiaoyu
Li, Wenjie
Zhang, Wei
contents Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has proven effective in natural language tasks but remains underexplored in multimodal alignment. This study investigates its integration into 3D vision-language learning by embedding structured reasoning into alignment training. We introduce the 3D-CoT Benchmark, a dataset with hierarchical CoT annotations covering shape recognition, functional inference, and causal reasoning. Through controlled experiments, we compare CoT-structured and standard textual annotations across large reasoning models (LRMs) and large language models (LLMs). Our evaluation employs a dual-layer framework assessing both intermediate reasoning and final inference quality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CoT significantly improves 3D semantic grounding, with LRMs leveraging CoT more effectively than LLMs. Furthermore, we highlight that annotation structure influences performance-explicit reasoning markers aid LLMs, while unmarked CoT better aligns with LRM inference patterns. Our analyses suggest that CoT is crucial for enhancing multimodal reasoning, with implications beyond 3D tasks. The dataset will be publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Battam/3D-CoT
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spellingShingle Integrating Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Alignment: A Study on 3D Vision-Language Learning
Chen, Yanjun
Sun, Yirong
Chen, Xinghao
Wang, Jian
Shen, Xiaoyu
Li, Wenjie
Zhang, Wei
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has proven effective in natural language tasks but remains underexplored in multimodal alignment. This study investigates its integration into 3D vision-language learning by embedding structured reasoning into alignment training. We introduce the 3D-CoT Benchmark, a dataset with hierarchical CoT annotations covering shape recognition, functional inference, and causal reasoning. Through controlled experiments, we compare CoT-structured and standard textual annotations across large reasoning models (LRMs) and large language models (LLMs). Our evaluation employs a dual-layer framework assessing both intermediate reasoning and final inference quality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CoT significantly improves 3D semantic grounding, with LRMs leveraging CoT more effectively than LLMs. Furthermore, we highlight that annotation structure influences performance-explicit reasoning markers aid LLMs, while unmarked CoT better aligns with LRM inference patterns. Our analyses suggest that CoT is crucial for enhancing multimodal reasoning, with implications beyond 3D tasks. The dataset will be publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Battam/3D-CoT
title Integrating Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Alignment: A Study on 3D Vision-Language Learning
topic Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06232