Improve model card: Add metadata, links, overview, and citation
Browse filesThis PR enhances the model card by adding key metadata and comprehensive information:
- Adds `pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text` to correctly categorize the model for multimodal tasks.
- Adds `library_name: transformers` as the model architecture (`llava_llama` and `AnchorLlava`) and `transformers_version` in `config.json` indicate compatibility with the `transformers` library, enabling the "How to use" widget.
- Includes a direct link to the paper: [Chain-of-Visual-Thought: Teaching VLMs to See and Think Better with Continuous Visual Tokens](https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.19418).
- Provides links to the official project page (https://wakalsprojectpage.github.io/comt-website) and the GitHub repository (https://github.com/Wakals/CoMT) for easy access to more resources.
- Expands the "Model Description" with a detailed overview of CoVT's methodology and benefits, derived from the paper's abstract and the GitHub README.
- Embeds relevant demo images from the GitHub repository to visually illustrate the model's capabilities.
- Adds a BibTeX citation for the paper.
Please review and merge if these improvements align with your expectations.
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license: apache-2.0
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## Model Description
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This CoVT checkpoint is aligned with **4 Depth tokens**, based on LLaVA-v1.5-13B.
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These task-specific tokens are integrated into the model’s embedding space to enhance 3D-awareness.
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license: apache-2.0
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pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
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library_name: transformers
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# Chain-of-Visual-Thought: Teaching VLMs to See and Think Better with Continuous Visual Tokens
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[](https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.19418)
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[](https://wakalsprojectpage.github.io/comt-website)
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[](https://github.com/Wakals/CoMT)
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## Model Description
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This CoVT checkpoint is aligned with **4 Depth tokens**, based on LLaVA-v1.5-13B.
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These task-specific tokens are integrated into the model’s embedding space to enhance 3D-awareness.
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## Overview
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at reasoning in linguistic space but struggle with perceptual understanding that requires dense visual perception, *e.g.*, spatial reasoning and geometric awareness. This limitation stems from the fact that current VLMs have limited mechanisms to capture dense visual information across spatial dimensions.
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**Chain-of-Visual-Thought (CoVT)** is a framework that enables VLMs to reason not only in words but also through **continuous visual tokens** — compact latent representations that encode rich perceptual cues. Within a small budget of roughly **20 tokens**, CoVT distills knowledge from lightweight vision experts, capturing complementary properties such as **2D appearance, 3D geometry, spatial layout, and edge structure**. During training, the VLM with CoVT autoregressively predicts these visual tokens to reconstruct dense supervision signals (*e.g.*, depth, segmentation, edges, and DINO features). At inference, the model reasons directly in the continuous visual token space, preserving efficiency while optionally decoding dense predictions for interpretability. Evaluated across more than **ten diverse perception benchmarks**, integrating CoVT into strong VLMs such as Qwen2.5-VL and LLaVA consistently improves performance.
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These visual “thought chains” bridge language and vision, enabling fine-grained understanding, spatial precision, and geometric awareness beyond the reach of text-based reasoning.
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<div align="center">
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<img src="https://github.com/Wakals/CoMT/raw/main/assets/DEMO.jpg" alt="CoVT Demo" style="width: 100%; margin: 10px 0;">
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<img src="https://github.com/Wakals/CoMT/raw/main/assets/edit_demo.jpg" alt="CoVT Edit Demo" style="width: 100%; margin: 10px 0;">
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</div>
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For more details on evaluation, Gradio demo, and training CoVT, please refer to the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Wakals/CoMT).
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## Citation
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If you use this work in your research, please cite:
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```bibtex
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@article{qin2025chainofvisualthought,
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title={Chain-of-Visual-Thought: Teaching VLMs to See and Think Better with Continuous Visual Tokens},
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author={Qin, Yiming and Wei, Bomin and Ge, Jiaxin and Kallidromitis, Konstantinos and Fu, Stephanie and Darrell, Trevor and Wang, Xudong},
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journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19418},
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year={2025},
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eprint={2511.19418},
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archivePrefix={arXiv},
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primaryClass={cs.CV},
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url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19418},
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}
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```
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