Corvid: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models Towards Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07424v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:31:56 GMT
• Title: Corvid: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models Towards Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
• Authors: Jingjing Jiang, Chao Ma, Xurui Song, Hanwang Zhang, Jun Luo,
• Abstract summary: We present Corvid, an MLLM with enhanced chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities.<n>To enhance Corvid's CoT reasoning capabilities, we introduce MCoT-Instruct-287K, a high-quality multimodal CoT instruction-following dataset.<n>We propose an effective inference-time scaling strategy that enables Corvid to mitigate over-reasoning and under-reasoning.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in multimodal perception and understanding. However, leading open-source MLLMs exhibit significant limitations in complex and structured reasoning, particularly in tasks requiring deep reasoning for decision-making and problem-solving. In this work, we present Corvid, an MLLM with enhanced chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities. Architecturally, Corvid incorporates a hybrid vision encoder for informative visual representation and a meticulously designed connector (GateMixer) to facilitate cross-modal alignment. To enhance Corvid's CoT reasoning capabilities, we introduce MCoT-Instruct-287K, a high-quality multimodal CoT instruction-following dataset, refined and standardized from diverse public reasoning sources. Leveraging this dataset, we fine-tune Corvid with a two-stage CoT-formatted training approach to progressively enhance its step-by-step reasoning abilities. Furthermore, we propose an effective inference-time scaling strategy that enables Corvid to mitigate over-reasoning and under-reasoning through self-verification. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Corvid outperforms existing o1-like MLLMs and state-of-the-art MLLMs with similar parameter scales, with notable strengths in mathematical reasoning and science problem-solving. Project page: https://mm-vl.github.io/corvid.

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