Mirage: Multimodal Reasoning in VLMs Without Rendering Images

Mirage: Multimodal Reasoning in VLMs Without Rendering Images

While VLMs are strong at understanding both text and images, they often rely solely on text when reasoning, limiting their ability to solve tasks that require visual thinking, such as spatial puzzles. People naturally visualize solutions rather than describing every detail, but VLMs struggle to do the same. Although some recent models can generate both text and images, training them for image generation often weakens their ability to reason. Pro…