Humans in Space: Can MLLMs Construct Human-Centric Spatial Understanding via Active Exocentric Exploration?
The paper introduces SATE-Bench, an interactive benchmark of 316 real-world scenes and 2,525 multi-turn QA pairs for evaluating whether multimodal LLMs recognize visual uncertainty and actively explore occluded views. Models start from a severely occluded view and query adjacent viewpoints, scored by a step-penalized efficiency reward. Evaluated MLLMs reportedly stop exploring prematurely with high confidence and struggle with fine-grained 3D geometry. GRPO fine-tuning that rewards view-seeking increased exploration but lowered accuracy.
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The paper introduces SATE-Bench, an interactive benchmark of 316 real-world scenes and 2,525 multi-turn QA pairs for evaluating whether multimodal LLMs recognize visual uncertainty and actively explore occluded views. Models start from a severely occluded view and query adjacent viewpoints, scored by a step-penalized efficiency reward. Evaluated MLLMs reportedly stop exploring prematurely with high confidence and struggle with fine-grained 3D geometry. GRPO fine-tuning that rewards view-seeking increased exploration but lowered accuracy.
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- Evaluated state-of-the-art MLLMs terminate exploration prematurely while reporting high confidence.
- Matched-view controls attribute the active-passive performance gap primarily to insufficient evidence acquisition.
- GRPO rewarding view-seeking increased active exploration but lowered overall accuracy due to over-exploration.
- The authors conclude scaling passive multi-view perception does not intrinsically yield active spatial reasoning.
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