Reward Design for Physical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2604.13993 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-04-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-04-15

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Accuracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• GRPO — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation Study — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Group Relative Policy Optimization — 1× in this paper
• Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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