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CausalVLR: A Toolbox and Benchmark for Visual-Linguistic Causal Reasoning

arXiv 2306.17462 ↗First posted 30 Jun 2023cs.CVcited by 5

On the map: LLM reasoning → Multimodal reasoning

Abstract (arXiv)

We present CausalVLR (Causal Visual-Linguistic Reasoning), an open-source toolbox containing a rich set of state-of-the-art causal relation discovery and causal inference methods for various visual-linguistic reasoning tasks, such as VQA, image/video captioning, medical report generation, model generalization and robustness, etc. These methods have been included in the toolbox with PyTorch implementations under NVIDIA computing system. It not only includes training and inference codes, but also provides model weights. We believe this toolbox is by far the most complete visual-linguitic causal reasoning toolbox. We wish that the toolbox and benchmark could serve the growing research community by providing a flexible toolkit to re-implement existing methods and develop their own new causal reasoning methods. Code and models are available at https://github.com/HCPLab-SYSU/CausalVLR. The project is under active development by HCP-Lab's contributors and we will keep this document updated.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 17 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 30 Jun 2023.

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  1. 2022Cross-Modal Causal Relational Reasoning for Event-Level Visual Question Answering26 Jul
  2. 2022Causal Reasoning Meets Visual Representation Learning: A Prospective Study26 Apr

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 2; 2025: 1; 2026: 2.

5 papers.

  1. 2025Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment for Video Question Groundingcited by 12
  2. 2024MEIA: Multimodal Embodied Perception and Interaction in Unknown Environmentscited by 5
  3. 2024Multimodal Sentiment Analysis Based on Causal Reasoningcited by 1
  4. 2026EG-VQA: Benchmarking Verifiable Video Question Answering with Grounded Temporal Evidencecited by 1
  5. 2026The Abstraction Gap in Vision-Language Causal Reasoningcited by 0

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  3. 2026From Prompts to Tokens: Internalizing Causal Supervision in Vision-Language Model for Multi-Image Causal Reasoning
  4. 2025InfoCausalQA:Can Models Perform Non-explicit Causal Reasoning Based on Infographic?
  5. 2025VCRBench: Exploring Long-form Causal Reasoning Capabilities of Large Video Language Models
  6. 2025ISO-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Causal Reasoning in Visual-Language Models through Procedural Plans
  7. 2025What's Missing in Vision-Language Models? Probing Their Struggles with Causal Order Reasoning
  8. 2026CCRV-Bench: Constraint-Based Evaluation of Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models