Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Visual chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is the extension of standard chain-of-thought prompting to multimodal settings — where the model reasons step-by-step over both visual and textual information together. Core Idea In standard CoT, a language model breaks a problem into intermediate reasoning steps before arriving at a final answer. Visual CoT does the same, but the reasoning chain involves interpreting, referencing, and drawing inferences from images, diagrams, charts, or visual scenes alongside text. ...