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May 11, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Visual Perception Limits STEM Large Models and How CodePercept Breaks the Barrier

The authors demonstrate that visual perception, not reasoning, is the primary bottleneck for STEM multimodal large language models, introduce the CodePercept paradigm and the ICC-1M dataset, and show that code‑driven perception dramatically improves performance, surpassing much larger models on new benchmarks.