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HopChain: Multi-Hop Data Synthesis for Generalizable Vision-Language Reasoning research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2026

Alibaba (Qwen) · Reasoning · Mar 17, 2026 · 7 citations · 65 upvotes · unverified

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HopChain is a scalable framework that generates multi-hop vision-language reasoning data to enhance VLMs' long-chain reasoning capabilities across diverse benchmarks.

By Shenzhi Wang, Shixuan Liu, Jing Zhou and 8 more · arXiv 2603.17024 · PDF

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arXiv.org
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7, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
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65 · Hugging Face
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