VisuoThink: Empowering LVLM Reasoning with Multimodal Tree Search

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models have showcased remarkable capabilities. However, they often falter when confronted with complex reasoning tasks that humans typically address through visual aids and deliberate, step-by-step thinking. While existing methods have explored text-based slow thinking or rudimentary visual assistance, they fall short of capturing the intricate, interleaved nature of human visual-verbal reasoning processes. To overcome these limitations and inspired by the mechanisms of slow thinking in human cognition, we introduce VisuoThink, a novel framework that seamlessly integrates visuospatial and linguistic domains. VisuoThink facilitates multimodal slow thinking by enabling progressive visual-textual reasoning and incorporates test-time scaling through look-ahead tree search. Extensive experiments demonstrate that VisuoThink significantly enhances reasoning capabilities via inference-time scaling, even without fine-tuning, achieving state-of-the-art performance in tasks involving geometry and spatial reasoning.

@article{wang2025_2504.09130,
  title={ VisuoThink: Empowering LVLM Reasoning with Multimodal Tree Search },
  author={ Yikun Wang and Siyin Wang and Qinyuan Cheng and Zhaoye Fei and Liang Ding and Qipeng Guo and Dacheng Tao and Xipeng Qiu },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.09130},
  year={ 2025 }
}