Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
Yunze Man, De-An Huang, Guilin Liu, Shiwei Sheng, Shilong Liu, Liang-Yan Gui, Jan Kautz, Yu-Xiong Wang, Zhiding Yu
2025Year
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Abstract
Room is filled with stuffed animal toys. closest silver SUV. man carrying bag of bottles. <box_1> <box_2> Liquid color in the glass on the table? <box> → ctx-token:color is green Figure 1. Visual question answering, grounding, and chain-of-thought reasoning with Argus. "ctx-token" is short for context token.
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