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Multimodal Reasoning for Science: Technical Report and 1st Place Solution to the ICML 2025 SeePhys Challenge

arXiv 2509.06079 ↗First posted 7 Sep 2025cs.CL cs.CVcited by 6

On the map: LLM reasoning → Multimodal reasoning

Abstract (arXiv)

Multimodal reasoning remains a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. Despite substantial advances in text-based reasoning, even state-of-the-art models such as GPT-o3 struggle to maintain strong performance in multimodal scenarios. To address this gap, we introduce a caption-assisted reasoning framework that effectively bridges visual and textual modalities. Our approach achieved 1st place in the ICML 2025 AI for Math Workshop & Challenge 2: SeePhys, highlighting its effectiveness and robustness. Furthermore, we validate its generalization on the MathVerse benchmark for geometric reasoning, demonstrating the versatility of our method. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/OpenDCAI/SciReasoner.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 10 of its 16 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Sep 2025.

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  1. 2025Reasoning-OCR: Can Large Multimodal Models Solve Complex Logical Reasoning Problems from OCR Cues?19 May

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  6. 2024MathVerse: Does Your Multi-modal LLM Truly See the Diagrams in Visual Math Problems?cited by 586
  7. 2025Winning Gold at IMO 2025 with a Model-Agnostic Verification-and-Refinement Pipelinecited by 82
  8. 2025SciMaster: Towards General-Purpose Scientific AI Agents, Part I. X-Master as Foundation: Can We Lead on Humanity's Last Exam?cited by 47
  9. 2025SeePhys: Does Seeing Help Thinking? -- Benchmarking Vision-Based Physics Reasoningcited by 34

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