Do MLLMs Really See It: Reinforcing Visual Attention in Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2602.08241 · cs.AI, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-02-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-02-09

Updated: 2026-10-25

Terminology

• MLLMs — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Credit assignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 26 episodes

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