Thinking with Visual Grounding

Junkai Zhang, Yihe Deng, Kai-Wei Chang, and Wei Wang, in EMNLP-Findings, 2026.

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@inproceedings{zhang2026thinkingvg,
  title = {Thinking with Visual Grounding},
  author = {Zhang, Junkai and Deng, Yihe and Chang, Kai-Wei and Wang, Wei},
  booktitle = {EMNLP-Findings},
  keyword_extra = {llmreasoning},
  year = {2026}
}

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