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#01Sep 4, 2026

cs.CV

WeAgent-MMGenEdit: A Full-Stack Recipe for Multimodal Agentic Image Generation and Editing

Hui Zhang, Zongkai Liu, Liqiang Niu and 6 more

Image generation and editing models have advanced rapidly, yet remain unreliable when prompts require external world knowledge. Bounded and long-tail parametric knowledge prevents direct or reason-then-generate approaches from recovering the required facts and visual appearances. Existing agentic generation and editing methods mitigate this limitation with retrieval tools, yet remain constrained by insufficient visual verification, overloaded policy models, and weak integration of retrieved textual and visual evidence. To address these limitations, we present WeAgent-MMGenEdit, a full-stack recipe including a multimodal harness, a scalable data construction pipeline, a comprehensive benchmark, and post-training methods for the agent policy and image backend. We first introduce WeAgent-Harness, a multimodal runtime with persistent evidence management and dedicated verification and integration tools that organize retrieved multimodal evidence into a dense carrier. Upon this, we develop a scalable pipeline for prompt synthesis and agentic trajectory collection, yielding 23K supervised trajectories and 14.7K RL tasks with three-layer verifiable checklists. We further introduce WeBench-MMGenEdit, a bilingual benchmark covering both knowledge-intensive image generation and multi-image editing. Finally, a two-sided post-training recipe based on SFT and RL improves the agent policy and image backend. Together, WeAgent-MMGenEdit enables a 30B-total/3B-active policy to outperform similarly sized policy models and approach the performance of a 1T-parameter agent.

#02Sep 4, 2026

cs.CV

CrossDepth: Geometry-Constrained Attention for Generalizable Multi-View Surround Depth Estimation

Samer Abualhanud, Max Mehltretter

Reliable 3D understanding of the surrounding environment is a core requirement for autonomous driving. Multi-view surround camera rigs provide broad scene coverage, but the spatially adjacent images typically overlap only minimally. Consequently, the depth of most pixels must be inferred from monocular appearance cues. These cues can appear differently across images and may therefore be interpreted differently by the depth estimation model. We target two main sources of cross-image inconsistency: differences in camera intrinsics and the limited receptive field of each image. We address the former by conditioning the features on per-pixel camera-aware ray embeddings, enabling the network to account for camera-dependent variations in monocular cues. We address the latter by extending each pixel's context beyond its own image through cross-image attention constrained to geometrically plausible regions, derived from the calibrated rig setup. The model is trained in a fully self-supervised manner based on photometric consistency. Evaluations on DDAD and nuScenes show improved overall depth accuracy and cross-image depth consistency over state-of-the-art self-supervised methods under in-domain and cross-domain evaluation. Code is available at https://abualhanud.github.io/CrossDepthPage/.

#03Sep 4, 2026

cs.CV

First Things First: Teaching LLM-Based Agents to Prioritize Must-Haves before Nice-to-Haves

Tianjie Ju, Xinyue Xu, Wanxuan Sun and 4 more

Recent progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has fueled significant enthusiasm in their potential to act as autonomous agents for real-world tasks. However, scenarios requiring agents to fulfill users' complex, structured requirements remain largely underexplored. In this work, we examine reasoning tasks under three distinct requirement scenarios: (i) Must-have requirements uniquely determine a unique feasible solution; (ii) Multiple answers satisfy the must-have requirements and are prioritized via the nice-to-have requirements; and (iii) No candidate solution satisfies the must-have requirements, in which case the agent should abstain from generating a response. We evaluate state-of-the-art MLLMs on 3,649 carefully constructed problems that reflect realistic service scenarios, including e-commerce, booking, and map-based or ride-hailing. Our evaluation reveals that existing MLLMs exhibit catastrophic failures in all scenarios. They frequently misinterpret task requirements, violate must-have requirements, and produce invalid solutions. To address this critical gap, we propose First Things First Reinforcement Learning FTF-rl that explicitly optimizes reasoning over multi-priority user requirements. Experimental results show that our method substantially improves the task success rate compared to strong baselines. Moreover, FTF-rl yields general effectiveness on popular logical and mathematical reasoning tasks, including LogicVista, MathVision, and InfoQA. Our findings suggest that enhancing requirement-aware reasoning capability provides a simple yet effective pathway to improve generalization of MLLM agents. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/claire62/FTF-RL.

#04Sep 4, 2026

cs.CV

Learning Spatial-Spectral Refinement and Calibrating Complementary Observations for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

Liqian Yang, Xingchi Chen, Xinfeng Gui and 2 more

Hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion (HMIF) aims to reconstruct a high-resolution hyperspectral image (HR-HSI) by combining the fine spatial details of a high-resolution multispectral image (HR-MSI) with the rich spectral information of a low-resolution hyperspectral image (LR-HSI). Recent advances in implicit neural representations (INRs) have enabled flexible coordinate-based modeling for HMIF; however, existing INR-based approaches may not fully capture fine-grained spatial structures and rich spectral dependencies. Moreover, the LR-HSI and HR-MSI are primarily incorporated through degradation-consistency constraints, leaving their complementary information underexploited. To address these limitations, we propose Two-Stage Reconstruction with Implicit Tensor Neural Representation (TSR-ITNR), a unified self-supervised framework integrating representation refinement and observation-guided calibration. In Stage 1, TSR-ITNR learns an implicit Tucker representation and refines its low-rank spatial coefficient tensor and spectral basis to better capture fine spatial structures and interband correlations. A fixed pretrained denoiser further provides a deep prior for the preliminary reconstruction. In Stage 2, parameter-free calibration derives complementary and noninterfering corrections from both observations to recover information insufficiently captured in Stage 1. Theoretical analysis establishes the geometry-preserving property of spectral refinement and the orthogonal complementarity of calibration. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate strong quantitative, visual, and spectral reconstruction performance without ground-truth HR-HSI supervision. Beyond conventional reconstruction metrics, we further assess the effectiveness of TSR-ITNR using downstream semantic segmentation accuracy.

#05Sep 4, 2026

cs.RO

RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?

Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Zhang, Yutong Lin and 9 more

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promising progress in language-conditioned robotic manipulation. However, existing datasets and benchmarks mainly evaluate task completion under predefined settings, offering limited insight into model reasoning under increasing spatial and procedural complexity. We introduce \textbf{RoboSPA} (\textbf{Robo}t \textbf{S}patial-\textbf{P}rocedural \textbf{A}ssessment), a large-scale robotic manipulation dataset and benchmark for diagnosing embodied reasoning in VLA models. \texttt{RoboSPA} focuses on two core dimensions, Fine-Grained Spatial Reasoning and Long-Horizon Procedural Planning, covering 10 task categories and 56 base tasks. Each task is instantiated across five difficulty levels, yielding 280 variants with increasing spatial ambiguity and procedural complexity. We collect 527K trajectories across multiple embodiments and diverse scenes. Beyond binary success rate, \texttt{RoboSPA} introduces diagnostic metrics for more detailed evaluation. Experiments on representative VLA models show that current systems still struggle with complex spatial relations, precise low-level execution, and memory-intensive planning. These results establish \texttt{RoboSPA} as a challenging diagnostic benchmark for developing more capable, reliable, and generalizable embodied agents. Our data and code are available at https://github.com/fanzhenxuan/RoboSPA.