Beyond Visual CoT: Internalized Visual Thinking for Proactive Video Reasoning

Apple Machine Learning Research · 1 month ago · 36

Internalized Visual Thinking (IVT) is introduced as a post-training framework that learns visual reasoning from unlabeled videos without generating future frames at inference time. IVT cuts end-to-end latency by more than 5× versus Visual CoT. As a result, it improves over text-only post-training and matches or exceeds Visual CoT performance while keeping the same efficient inference pathway.