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Self-Evolving Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Geometric Logic Consistency

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made striking progress, yet their spatial reasoning remains fragile: models that answer an original input correctly can still fail under paired transformations with predictable answer mappings, revealing a gap between instance-level correctness and robust spatial reasoning. To address this, we propose Spatial Alignment via Geometric Evolution (SAGE), a self-evolving framework that enforces logical consistency in VLMs through geometric and linguistic duality operations. SAGE incorporates duality consistency as an auxiliary reward within GRPO training, encouraging models to produce logically coherent answers across original and transformed inputs. A dynamic operation pool continuously probes for inconsistencies, promoting challenging operations and retiring mastered ones, so that training focuses on the most informative signals. SAGE is model-agnostic, data-efficient compared to prior GRPO methods, and can be applied as a lightweight post-training stage to any existing VLM. Experiments on video and spatial reasoning benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines and enhanced generalization to unseen data.

Junming Liu, Yuqi Li, Yifei Sun, Maonan Wang, Piotr Koniusz, Yirong Chen, Ding Wang• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Video UnderstandingMVBench
Accuracy67.5
563
Spatial ReasoningViewspatial
Accuracy44.1
125
Spatial ReasoningMindCube
Accuracy44.5
87
Spatial ReasoningCV-Bench
Accuracy77.2
79
Video UnderstandingMMVU
Accuracy65.4
76
Video UnderstandingVideoMMMU
Accuracy51.7
59
Video UnderstandingVideoMME
Accuracy65.1
30
Video UnderstandingVSI-Bench
Accuracy37.7
23
Spatial ReasoningMMSI
Score32.3
17
Video UnderstandingTempCmps
Accuracy78.4
11
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