InternSpatial: A Comprehensive Dataset for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
On the map: LLM reasoning → Spatial and embodied reasoning
Abstract (arXiv)
Recent benchmarks and datasets have been proposed to improve spatial reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs), yet existing open resources remain limited in scale, visual diversity, and instruction expressiveness. In this work, we introduce InternSpatial, the largest open-source dataset for spatial reasoning in VLMs, along with InternSpatial-Bench, a corresponding evaluation benchmark designed to assess spatial understanding under diverse instruction formats. InternSpatial comprises 12 million QA pairs spanning both single-view and multi-view settings, drawn from diverse visual environments and supporting 19 instruction formats that reflect varied query styles. For evaluation, we propose InternSpatial-Bench for single-view tasks and expand multi-view reasoning by introducing a novel rotation angle prediction task that has not been explored in prior work. Experimental results show that models trained on InternSpatial achieve 12.1% improvement on InternSpatial-Bench and 10.7% on VSI-Bench, while maintaining strong performance on general-purpose benchmarks. We hope these resources will support the development of spatially capable VLMs in practical applications such as robotics and embodied AI.
Key facts. Cited by 28 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Spatial and embodied reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 14 of its 49 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Jun 2025.
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- 2025SpaceVista: All-Scale Visual Spatial Reasoning from mm to kmcited by 19
- 2026Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?cited by 19
- 2026Spatial-TTT: Streaming Visual-based Spatial Intelligence with Test-Time Trainingcited by 11
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- 2026Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learningcited by 9
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- 2026MultiView-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for World-Centric Multi-View Integration in VLMscited by 4
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- 2026VIEW2SPACE: Studying Multi-View Visual Reasoning from Sparse Observationscited by 3
- 2026HiSpatial: Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Modelscited by 3
- 2026Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Modelscited by 3
- 2026Stepping VLMs onto the Court: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence in Sportscited by 2
- 2026AlloSpatial: Agentic Harness Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Modelscited by 2
- 2026SpaceDG: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence under Visual Degradationcited by 1
- 2025A Multi-Modal Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Spatial Reasoning-Based Visual Grounding in Roboticscited by 0
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- 2026Evaluating the Semantic-to-Geometric Gap in Adversarial Defenses Against Vision-Language Model-Based Plagiarism22 Sep 2026
- 2026PolyComp: A Polycube-based Benchmark for Compositional 3D Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Models13 Aug 2026
- 2026MultiView-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for World-Centric Multi-View Integration in VLMs9 Jul 2026
- 2026Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models5 Jul 2026
- 2026AlloSpatial: Agentic Harness Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models8 Jun 2026
- 2026SpaceDG: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence under Visual Degradation21 May 2026
- 2026SpatialForge: Bootstrapping 3D-Aware Spatial Reasoning from Open-World 2D Images12 May 2026
- 2026Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning8 Apr 2026
- 2026HiSpatial: Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Models26 Mar 2026
- 2026VIEW2SPACE: Studying Multi-View Visual Reasoning from Sparse Observations17 Mar 2026
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- 2026ShotVerse: Advancing Cinematic Camera Control for Text-Driven Multi-Shot Video Creation12 Mar 2026
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- 2026SCP: Spatial Causal Prediction in Video4 Mar 2026
- 2026Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?4 Feb 2026
- 2025Spatial4D-Bench: A Versatile 4D Spatial Intelligence Benchmark31 Dec 2025
- 2025Visually Prompted Benchmarks Are Surprisingly Fragile19 Dec 2025
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- 2025Bridging VLMs and Embodied Intelligence with Deliberate Practice Policy Optimization20 Nov 2025
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- 2025Pelican-VL 1.0: A Foundation Brain Model for Embodied Intelligence30 Oct 2025
- 2025A Multi-Modal Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Spatial Reasoning-Based Visual Grounding in Robotics30 Oct 2025
- 2025Vlaser: Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Embodied Reasoning13 Oct 2025
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- 2026Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learningcited by 9
- 2025MonoSR: Open-Vocabulary Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Imagescited by 3
- 2025Spatial4D-Bench: A Versatile 4D Spatial Intelligence Benchmarkcited by 3
- 2026VIEW2SPACE: Studying Multi-View Visual Reasoning from Sparse Observationscited by 3
- 2026HiSpatial: Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Modelscited by 3
- 2026AlloSpatial: Agentic Harness Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Modelscited by 2
- 2026SpaceDG: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence under Visual Degradationcited by 1
- 2025A Multi-Modal Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Spatial Reasoning-Based Visual Grounding in Roboticscited by 0
- 2026SCP: Spatial Causal Prediction in Videocited by 0
- 2026SpatialForge: Bootstrapping 3D-Aware Spatial Reasoning from Open-World 2D Imagescited by 0
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- 2026PolyComp: A Polycube-based Benchmark for Compositional 3D Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Models13 Aug 2026
- 2026AlloSpatial: Agentic Harness Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models8 Jun 2026
- 2026SpaceDG: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence under Visual Degradation21 May 2026
- 2026SpatialForge: Bootstrapping 3D-Aware Spatial Reasoning from Open-World 2D Images12 May 2026
- 2026Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning8 Apr 2026
- 2026HiSpatial: Taming Hierarchical 3D Spatial Understanding in Vision-Language Models26 Mar 2026
- 2026VIEW2SPACE: Studying Multi-View Visual Reasoning from Sparse Observations17 Mar 2026
- 2026SCP: Spatial Causal Prediction in Video4 Mar 2026
- 2025Spatial4D-Bench: A Versatile 4D Spatial Intelligence Benchmark31 Dec 2025
- 2025MonoSR: Open-Vocabulary Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images24 Nov 2025
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- 2026Evaluating the Semantic-to-Geometric Gap in Adversarial Defenses Against Vision-Language Model-Based Plagiarism22 Sep 2026
- 2025Spatial-SSRL: Enhancing Spatial Understanding via Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning31 Oct 2025
- 2025Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs on Spatial Intelligence18 Aug 2025
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- 2026Spatial-TTT: Streaming Visual-based Spatial Intelligence with Test-Time Trainingcited by 11
- 2025Pelican-VL 1.0: A Foundation Brain Model for Embodied Intelligencecited by 10
- 2025Visually Prompted Benchmarks Are Surprisingly Fragilecited by 7
- 2026ShotVerse: Advancing Cinematic Camera Control for Text-Driven Multi-Shot Video Creationcited by 7
- 2026MultiView-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for World-Centric Multi-View Integration in VLMscited by 4
- 2025Bridging VLMs and Embodied Intelligence with Deliberate Practice Policy Optimizationcited by 3
- 2026Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Modelscited by 3
- 2026Stepping VLMs onto the Court: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence in Sportscited by 2
- 2026MultiView-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for World-Centric Multi-View Integration in VLMs9 Jul 2026
- 2026Transferability Between Understanding and Generation in Unified Multimodal Models5 Jul 2026
- 2026Spatial-TTT: Streaming Visual-based Spatial Intelligence with Test-Time Training12 Mar 2026
- 2026ShotVerse: Advancing Cinematic Camera Control for Text-Driven Multi-Shot Video Creation12 Mar 2026
- 2026Stepping VLMs onto the Court: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence in Sports10 Mar 2026
- 2026Theory of Space: Can Foundation Models Construct Spatial Beliefs through Active Exploration?4 Feb 2026
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- 2025Bridging VLMs and Embodied Intelligence with Deliberate Practice Policy Optimization20 Nov 2025
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