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WorldMind: Test-Time Scaling for Visual Spatial Reasoning through Latent World Simulation

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Briefings

WorldMind is a framework for test-time scaling in visual spatial reasoning that uses latent world simulation to enable active perspective-taking without pixel decoding. It improves VSI-Bench and MMSI-Bench scores by 16.0% and 8.3% respectively compared to base models and RGB-based simulations. The system selects spatial transformations, executes them via a world model, and feeds aligned latent features back to the VLM for iterative reasoning.

Key points

• WorldMind uses latent world simulation to perform active perspective-taking in VLMs, avoiding the bottleneck of converting imagined states to pixels.
• The framework employs process-verifiable reinforcement learning to reward reasoning progress only when actions and latent transitions are valid.

Context

Vision-Language Models struggle with mental spatial transformation, such as perspective-taking. Existing methods either scale language or use static geometric representations, neither enabling active scene transformation. WorldMind addresses this by allocating inference-time to world simulation rather than pixel generation.

Limitations

Performance gains are measured on VSI-Bench, MMSI-Bench, and MindCube-Tiny. The study does not report results on other benchmarks or specific hardware configurations. The framework relies on process-verifiable reinforcement learning, which may not generalize to all reasoning tasks.

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