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question:how-can-visual-reasoning-be-preserved-within-discrete-autoregressive-sequences-without-external-tools-or-pixel-level-supervisionHow can visual reasoning be preserved within discrete autoregressive sequences without external tools or pixel-level supervision?
Core research question addressed by ATLAS: bridging interpretability of agentic methods, efficiency of discrete tokens, and scalability of autoregressive training.
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extracted_fromZiyu Guo · Rain Liu · Xinyan Chen · Pheng-Ann Heng
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- Token-level supervision enables models to learn functional-token invocation from reasoning contextgatesATLAS author's assertion that functional tokens optimized via standard cross-entropy loss learn when and how to invoke operations from surrounding text.
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- Author's interpretive assertion on the direction of the field.
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- Paradigm where VLM acts as controller generating code or tool calls to external modules for visual operations, incurring context-switching latency.
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- Core insight: reconstruction objective combined with appropriate initialization and KL regularization produces human-interpretable explanations as emergent property.
- Claims that although a purely mathematical identification method is lacking, a well-defined experimental procedure exists to find good sequences.