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Self-Evolving Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Geometric Logic Consistency

May 18, 2026

arXiv
Abstract

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made striking progress, yet their spatial reasoning remains fragile: models that answer an original input correctly can still fail under paired transformations with predictable answer mappings, revealing a gap between instance-level correctness and robust spatial reasoning. To address this, we propose Spatial Alignment via Geometric Evolution (SAGE), a self-evolving framework that enforces logical consistency in VLMs through geometric and linguistic duality operations. SAGE incorporates duality consistency as an auxiliary reward within GRPO training, encouraging models to produce logically coherent answers across original and transformed inputs. A dynamic operation pool continuously probes for inconsistencies, promoting challenging operations and retiring mastered ones, so that training focuses on the most informative signals. SAGE is model-agnostic, data-efficient compared to prior GRPO methods, and can be applied as a lightweight post-training stage to any existing VLM. Experiments on video and spatial reasoning benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines and enhanced generalization to unseen data.

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Authors
Junming Liu, Yuqi Li, Yifei Sun, Maonan Wang, Piotr Koniusz, Yirong Chen, Ding Wang
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arXiv:2605.18162