arxivcs.CV2026-07-16
Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning
Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak, Tianze Zhou, Ruibin Yuan, Yuhan Rui, et al.
Video models are evolving into vision foundation models, yet they still lack human-like multi-step reasoning. Streaming autoregressive diffusion models are efficient but limited in reasoning, while bidirectional diffusion enables global revision with high inference costs due to d…