CoRe: A Comprehensive Framework for Cross-Image Comparative Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
2607.12786

Authors

Cong Wan,Zeyu Guo,SongLin Dong,Yihong Gong,Lin Peng

Abstract

Cross-image comparative reasoning remains challenging for vision-language models (VLMs), especially when correct prediction requires fine-grained attribute grounding and globally consistent reasoning. We present CoRe, a unified framework for this problem.

CoRe includes: (i) CoRe-20K, a large-scale triplet-based training set automatically constructed from structured visual metadata through a multi-expert collaborative pipeline, covering counting, depth, distance, and spatial relations; (ii) TriSR, a structured reward framework that jointly supervises attribute grounding, judgment alignment, and triplet consistency under GRPO optimization; and (iii) CoRe-Bench, the first benchmark dedicated to fine-grained cross-image comparative reasoning. Experiments show that CoRe substantially outperforms existing VLMs on CoRe-Bench while remaining competitive on standard multimodal benchmarks, achieving a 28.2-point gain in partial accuracy over the strongest baseline.

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