arxivcs.CV2026-07-16
Reasoning-Guided Part-Level Visual Grounding via Reinforcement Learning
Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Hani Alomari, Najibul Haque Sarker, Chia-Wei Tang, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Anuj Karpatne, et al.
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) ground whole objects well from free-form language queries, but they struggle when the query names a part rather than the object. We trace this to a missing object-part hierarchy, since parts are localized in the same single step used for o…