Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Comments: 29 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, Under review at Artificial Intelligence Review

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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