Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning research paper by UC Berkeley, 2025
UC Berkeley · Reasoning · Dec 24, 2025 · 19 citations · 60 upvotes · unverified
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This paper introduces a task-agnostic mechanism for models to discover and use visual reasoning tokens without explicit supervision.
By Kelvin Li, Chuyi Shang, Leonid Karlinsky and 3 more · arXiv 2512.21218 · PDF
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About this paper
- Venue
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Citations
- 19, 2 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 60 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- UC Berkeley
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