Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning
While Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have made significant progress, they remain largely text-centric, relying on language as their core reasoning modality. As a result, they are limited in their ability to handle reasoning tasks that are predominantly visual. Recent approaches have sought to address this by supervising intermediate visual steps with helper images, depth maps, or image crops. However, these strategies impose restrictive priors on what "useful" visual abstractions look like, add heavy annotation costs, and struggle to generalize across tasks. To address this critical limitation, we propose Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning (LIVR), a task-agnostic mechanism that trains LMMs to discover and use latent visual reasoning tokens without explicit intermediate supervision. These tokens attend globally and re-encode the image in a task-adaptive way, enabling the model to extract relevant visual information without hand-crafted supervision. LIVR consistently outperforms direct supervised fine-tuning across diverse vision-centric tasks and multiple LMM backbones. In broader comparisons, LIVR remains competitive with or outperforms prior text-based and explicit-visual-intermediate reasoning methods, while requiring no additional intermediate supervision such as helper images, bounding boxes, image crops, depth maps, or chain-of-thought annotations. Our project page can be found here: https://www.chuyishang.com/livr/
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