arxivcs.AIcs.CV2026-07-07
Bridging Physical Reasoning and Task Generalization via Visual Action Outcome Reasoning Alignment
Han-Jun Ko, Jr-Jen Chen, Haobo Yuan, Hsin-Ying Lee, Tiancheng Shen, Ming-Hsuan Yang, et al.
Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle to generalize in interactive physical reasoning, particularly under unseen tasks and environments. Two key failure modes are prominent: hallucinated chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning that contradicts physical reality, and misalignment between…