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Latent Sketchpad: Sketching Visual Thoughts to Elicit Multimodal Reasoning in MLLMs

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Main Authors:	Zhang, Huanyu, Wu, Wenshan, Li, Chengzu, Shang, Ning, Xia, Yan, Huang, Yangyu, Zhang, Yifan, Dong, Li, Zhang, Zhang, Wang, Liang, Tan, Tieniu, Wei, Furu
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computation and Language
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