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| author | Chen, Xi Zhu, Mingkang Liu, Shaoteng Wu, Xiaoyang Xu, Xiaogang Liu, Yu Bai, Xiang Zhao, Hengshuang |
| author_facet | Chen, Xi Zhu, Mingkang Liu, Shaoteng Wu, Xiaoyang Xu, Xiaogang Liu, Yu Bai, Xiang Zhao, Hengshuang |
| contents | This work explores enabling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to link visual cues across multiple images. A straightforward solution is to adapt rule-based reinforcement learning for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, such methods typically rely on manually curated question-answer pairs, which can be particularly challenging when dealing with fine grained visual details and complex logic across images. Inspired by self-supervised visual representation learning, we observe that images contain inherent constraints that can serve as supervision. Based on this insight, we construct image triplets comprising two augmented views of the same image and a third, similar but distinct image. During training, the model is prompted to generate a reasoning process to compare these images (i.e., determine same or different). Then we optimize the model with rule-based reinforcement learning. Due to the high visual similarity and the presence of augmentations, the model must attend to subtle visual changes and perform logical reasoning to succeed. Experiments show that, although trained solely on visual comparison tasks, the learned reasoning ability generalizes effectively to a wide range of questions. Without relying on any human-annotated question-answer pairs, our method achieves significant improvements on multi-image reasoning benchmarks and shows strong performance on general vision tasks. |
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| spellingShingle | MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning Chen, Xi Zhu, Mingkang Liu, Shaoteng Wu, Xiaoyang Xu, Xiaogang Liu, Yu Bai, Xiang Zhao, Hengshuang Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition This work explores enabling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to link visual cues across multiple images. A straightforward solution is to adapt rule-based reinforcement learning for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, such methods typically rely on manually curated question-answer pairs, which can be particularly challenging when dealing with fine grained visual details and complex logic across images. Inspired by self-supervised visual representation learning, we observe that images contain inherent constraints that can serve as supervision. Based on this insight, we construct image triplets comprising two augmented views of the same image and a third, similar but distinct image. During training, the model is prompted to generate a reasoning process to compare these images (i.e., determine same or different). Then we optimize the model with rule-based reinforcement learning. Due to the high visual similarity and the presence of augmentations, the model must attend to subtle visual changes and perform logical reasoning to succeed. Experiments show that, although trained solely on visual comparison tasks, the learned reasoning ability generalizes effectively to a wide range of questions. Without relying on any human-annotated question-answer pairs, our method achieves significant improvements on multi-image reasoning benchmarks and shows strong performance on general vision tasks. |
| title | MiCo: Multi-image Contrast for Reinforcement Visual Reasoning |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22434 |