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Jul 21, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Naïve Visual Reasoning Fails and How ProLaViT Enables Step‑by‑Step Latent Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

ProLaViT introduces a progressive latent visual reasoning framework that replaces costly explicit image generation and unstable one‑shot latent inference with a structured Locate→Focus→Isolate chain, endogenous self‑distillation, and a distance‑weighted diversity loss, achieving state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on multiple visual reasoning benchmarks.