SpatialMosaic: A Multiview VLM Dataset for Partial Visibility
On the map: LLM reasoning → Spatial and embodied reasoning
Abstract (arXiv)
Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has enabled 3D scene understanding and spatial reasoning directly from multi-view images, without requiring explicit 3D reconstructions. Nevertheless, key challenges that frequently arise in real-world environments, such as partial visibility, occlusion, and low-overlap conditions that require reasoning from fragmented visual cues, remain under-explored. To address these limitations, we propose a scalable multi-view data generation and annotation pipeline that constructs realistic spatial reasoning QAs, resulting in SpatialMosaic, a comprehensive instruction-tuning dataset with 2M QA pairs. We further introduce SpatialMosaic-Bench, a challenging benchmark for evaluating multi-view spatial reasoning under complex and diverse scenarios, consisting of 1M QA pairs across 11 tasks with both multiple-choice and numerical-answer formats. Our dataset spans both indoor and outdoor scenes, enabling comprehensive evaluation across diverse real-world scenarios. In addition, we provide a practical baseline for multi-view settings by integrating geometry encoders into VLMs for improved cross-view consistency and spatial grounding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our dataset effectively enhances spatial reasoning under challenging multi-view conditions, validating the effectiveness of our data generation pipeline in constructing realistic and challenging QAs.
Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Spatial and embodied reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 41 of its 51 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 Dec 2025.
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