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SpaceVista: All-Scale Visual Spatial Reasoning from mm to km

arXiv 2510.09606 ↗First posted 10 Oct 2025cs.CVcited by 19

On the map: LLM reasoning → Spatial and embodied reasoning

Abstract (arXiv)

With the current surge in spatial reasoning explorations, researchers have made significant progress in understanding indoor scenes, but still struggle with diverse applications such as robotics and autonomous driving. This paper aims to advance all-scale spatial reasoning across diverse scenarios by tackling two key challenges: 1) the heavy reliance on indoor 3D scans and labor-intensive manual annotations for dataset curation; 2) the absence of effective all-scale scene modeling, which often leads to overfitting to individual scenes. In this paper, we introduce a holistic solution that integrates a structured spatial reasoning knowledge system, scale-aware modeling, and a progressive training paradigm, as the first attempt to broaden the all-scale spatial intelligence of MLLMs to the best of our knowledge. Using a task-specific, specialist-driven automated pipeline, we curate over 38K video scenes across 5 spatial scales to create SpaceVista-1M, a dataset comprising approximately 1M spatial QA pairs spanning 19 diverse task types. While specialist models can inject useful domain knowledge, they are not reliable for evaluation. We then build an all-scale benchmark with precise annotations by manually recording, retrieving, and assembling video-based data. However, naive training with SpaceVista-1M often yields suboptimal results due to the potential knowledge conflict. Accordingly, we introduce SpaceVista-7B, a spatial reasoning model that accepts dense inputs beyond semantics and uses scale as an anchor for scale-aware experts and progressive rewards. Finally, extensive evaluations across 5 benchmarks, including our SpaceVista-Bench, demonstrate competitive performance, showcasing strong generalization across all scales and scenarios. Our dataset, model, and benchmark will be released on https://peiwensun2000.github.io/mm2km .

Key facts. Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Spatial and embodied reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 51 of its 95 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 10 Oct 2025.

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  2. 2025VLM4D: Towards Spatiotemporal Awareness in Vision Language Models4 Aug
  3. 2025InternSpatial: A Comprehensive Dataset for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models23 Jun
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  5. 2025MMSI-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Image Spatial Intelligence29 May
  6. 2025ViewSpatial-Bench: Evaluating Multi-perspective Spatial Localization in Vision-Language Models27 May
  7. 2025Are Multimodal Large Language Models Ready for Omnidirectional Spatial Reasoning?17 May
  8. 2025SpatialReasoner: Towards Explicit and Generalizable 3D Spatial Reasoning28 Apr
  9. 2025SpaceR: Reinforcing MLLMs in Video Spatial Reasoning2 Apr
  10. 2025Improved Visual-Spatial Reasoning via R1-Zero-Like Training1 Apr
  11. 2025LEGO-Puzzles: How Good Are MLLMs at Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning?25 Mar
  12. 2025ST-Think: How Multimodal Large Language Models Reason About 4D Worlds from Ego-Centric Videos16 Mar
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  2. 2025SpatialCoT: Advancing Spatial Reasoning through Coordinate Alignment and Chain-of-Thought for Embodied Task Planning17 Jan

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  2. 2025Towards Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Roboticscited by 12
  3. 2026CamReasoner: Reinforcing Camera Movement Understanding via Structured Spatial Reasoningcited by 9
  4. 2026Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learningcited by 9
  5. 2026Benchmark Everything Everywhere All at Oncecited by 6
  6. 2026EgoMind: Activating Spatial Cognition through Linguistic Reasoning in MLLMscited by 3
  7. 20254D-RGPT: Toward Region-level 4D Understanding via Perceptual Distillationcited by 2
  8. 2026Stepping VLMs onto the Court: Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence in Sportscited by 2
  9. 2026OpenVLThinkerV2: A Generalist Multimodal Reasoning Model for Multi-domain Visual Taskscited by 2
  10. 2026Beyond 3D VQAs: Injecting 3D Spatial Priors into Vision-Language Models for Enhanced Geometric Reasoningcited by 1
  11. 2026SpatialAct: Probing Spatial Reasoning-to-Action Capabilities of VLM Agents in 3D Scenescited by 1
  12. 2026Ouroboros-Spatial: Closing the Data-Model Loop for Spatial Reasoningcited by 1
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  1. 2026SpaceEra++: A Unified Framework Towards 3D Spatial Reasoning in Videocited by 1
  2. 2026GuideMe: Multi-Domain Task Guidance and Intervention in Streaming Videocited by 1
  3. 2026X-Stream: Exploring MLLMs as Multiplexers for Multi-Stream Understandingcited by 0
  4. 2026MentalThink: Shaping Thoughts in Mental SVG Worldcited by 0
  5. 2026SpatialCORE: Confidence-Aware Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Large Vision--Language Modelscited by 0
  6. 2026SpatialOPSD: Self-Distilling Spatial Intelligence from Verified Coding Agent Tracescited by 0
  7. 2026Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Modelscited by 0

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