S-Agent: Spatial Tool-Use Elicits Reasoning for Spatial Intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20515v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:34:55 GMT
• Title: S-Agent: Spatial Tool-Use Elicits Reasoning for Spatial Intelligence
• Abstract summary: textscS-Agent reshapes spatial perception into scene-centric understanding beyond frame-centric recognition.<n>textscS-Agent casts the VLM as a semantic planner that decides what evidence is needed.<n>textscS-Agent consistently improves both open-source and closed-source VLMs in a training-free manner.
• Score: 77.5121349100339
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Real-world spatial intelligence requires reasoning over a continuous and evolving 3D world, yet existing VLMs and tool-augmented agents largely remain tied to static, stateless inference from isolated visual observations. We introduce \textbf{\textsc{S-Agent}}, a spatial tool-use agentic paradigm for understanding and reasoning over continuous multi-view images and videos. By formulating spatial reasoning as spatio-temporal evidence accumulation rather than isolated frame-level prediction, \textsc{S-Agent} reshapes spatial perception into scene-centric understanding beyond frame-centric recognition. Specifically, \textsc{S-Agent} casts the VLM as a semantic planner that decides what evidence is needed, while a hierarchy of spatial tools and experts grounds objects in 2D, lifts them into 3D geometric evidence, and aggregates this evidence into high-level spatial knowledge (\textit{e.g.}, counting, measurement, orientation, and relative position). Additionally, a temporal memory mechanism, including Scene Memory for maintaining the evolving scene state and Agent Memory for accumulating reasoning context, enables evidence integration across frames and reasoning steps. Comprehensive experiments on multi-view and video spatial reasoning benchmarks show that \textsc{S-Agent} consistently improves both open-source and closed-source VLMs in a training-free manner. Beyond inference-time augmentation, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on \textsc{S-Agent}-generated spatial trajectories \textsc{S-300K} yields \textsc{S-Agent-8B}, a compact spatial agent that significantly surpasses similar-scale baselines (e.g., Qwen3-VL-8B) and performs comparably to advanced closed-source models (e.g., GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3).

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