@article{vicbenchbenchmarkingvisualinterleaved, title = {ViC-Bench: Benchmarking Visual-Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Capability in MLLMs with Free-Style Intermediate State Representations}, author = {Xuecheng Wu and Jiaxing Liu and Danlei Huang and Xiaoyu Li and Yifan Wang and Chen Chen and Liya Ma and Xuezhi Cao and Junxiao Xue}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2505.14404}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14404v1}, }