arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LGcs.MM2026-06-28
ScAle: Attention Head Scaling as a Minimal Adapter for Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models
Rahul Chowdhury, Timothy A Rupprecht, Xuan Shen, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang
Spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge for many vision language models (VLMs), and improving it typically requires fine-tuning with substantial additional parameters. Our preliminary analysis reveals that rescaling activations in selected transformer layers-without modi…