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May 22, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

ATLAS: One Word Unifies Agentic and Latent Visual Reasoning

ATLAS introduces a discrete functional token that simultaneously serves as an agentic operation and a latent reasoning unit, enabling large multimodal models to perform visual tasks without external tools or intermediate image generation, and achieves competitive results through SFT‑plus‑RL training and a token‑level gradient‑anchor technique.