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Trace: A Taxonomy-Guided Environment for Multidomain Visual Reasoning

Research Multimodal & Generative

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TL;DR - Trace is a reproducible environment for training vision-language models with verifiable rewards across 11 visual domains. Training on 64,000 generated instances improved two Qwen2.5-VL models by 3.51–4.06 percentage points across 24 external benchmarks.

  • Separates visual rendering from answer computation using scene grammars and executable task programs.
  • Uses shared semantic state to generate images, prompts, typed answers, verifier states, and replayable traces.
  • Includes 1,000 tasks spanning 277 scene grammars with controlled semantic and visual variation.
  • Results suggest broad procedural RLVR training can transfer beyond its generated task distributions.

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Trace: A Taxonomy-Guided Environment for Multidomain Visual Reasoning

arXiv cs.CV Md Tanvirul Alam 2026-07-22 arXiv:2607.19790

TL;DR - Trace is a reproducible environment for training vision-language models with verifiable rewards across 11 visual domains. Training on 64,000 generated instances improved two Qwen2.5-VL models by 3.51–4.06 percentage points across 24 external benchmarks.

  • Separates visual rendering from answer computation using scene grammars and executable task programs.
  • Uses shared semantic state to generate images, prompts, typed answers, verifier states, and replayable traces.
  • Includes 1,000 tasks spanning 277 scene grammars with controlled semantic and visual variation.
  • Results suggest broad procedural RLVR training can transfer beyond its generated task distributions.
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