2026
Ref-Adv: Exploring MLLM Visual Reasoning in Referring Expression Tasks
ICLR 2026poster
Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) links language to region level visual perception. Standard benchmarks (RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, RefCOCOg) have progressed rapidly with multimodal LLMs but remain weak tests of visual rea- soning and grounding: (i) many expressions are very short, leaving little rea…