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PublishedMay 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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DeFacto: Counterfactual Thinking with Images for Enforcing Evidence-Grounded and Faithful Reasoning
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arXiv:2509.20912v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal language models (MLLMs) have made thinking with images a dominant paradigm for multimodal reasoning. However, existing methods still fail to ensure evidence-answer consistency, where correct answers must be supported b
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