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arxiv: 2512.10554 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-11 · 💻 cs.CV

Grounding Everything in Tokens for Multimodal Large Language Models

Xiangxuan Ren , Zhongdao Wang , Liping Hou , Pin Tang , Guoqing Wang , Chao Ma This is my paper

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keywords GETokmultimodal large language modelsspatial groundinggrid tokensoffset tokens2D localizationreferring tasksautoregressive transformers
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GETok improves MLLMs' 2D object grounding by adding learnable grid and offset tokens to the vocabulary.

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Multimodal large language models tokenize images sequentially, which limits their ability to represent precise locations in the 2D plane. GETok introduces a specialized vocabulary of grid tokens that divide the image into structured spatial anchors and offset tokens that allow iterative refinement of position predictions. By embedding these spatial relationships directly into tokens, the method enables native 2D reasoning inside the existing autoregressive architecture without any structural changes. A reader would care because it shows a way to add accurate localization to current models while keeping their training and inference pipelines intact.

Core claim

GETok integrates a specialized vocabulary of learnable tokens into MLLMs. Grid tokens partition the image plane into structured spatial anchors, and offset tokens enable precise and iterative refinement of localization predictions. This approach advances MLLMs in native 2D space reasoning without modifying the autoregressive architecture and delivers superior performance over state-of-the-art methods on referring tasks in both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning settings.

What carries the argument

The GETok vocabulary of grid tokens for image-plane partitioning and offset tokens for position refinement, embedded directly into the model's token set.

Load-bearing premise

Adding a specialized vocabulary of grid and offset tokens will enable accurate 2D localization without degrading other model capabilities or requiring any architectural modifications to the autoregressive Transformer.

What would settle it

Run a controlled experiment comparing an MLLM equipped with GETok against an identical baseline on a standard referring expression comprehension benchmark and check whether localization accuracy rises while non-spatial task scores stay flat or decline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.10554 by Chao Ma, Guoqing Wang, Liping Hou, Pin Tang, Xiangxuan Ren, Zhongdao Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of GETok. GETok equips MLLMs with pre-defined, learnable discrete tokens tied to uniformly distributed anchor [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Comparison of token-based representations for ground [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: GETok supports both input and output references with multiple format conversions, including boxes, polylines, and masks. It is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Example of the propose-and-refine mechanism in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: We use a greedy algorithm to generate the ground-truth grid tokens referring to the ground-truth mask. This conversion automatically transforms continuous masks into discrete tokens, enabling scalable data expansion. V = VLLM ∪ Tgrid ∪ Toffset facilitates spatial reasoning as precise spatial pronouns. These two types of tokens col￾lectively reason about localization through a propose-and￾refine chain [PIT… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Overview of the Self-Improving RL Framework. Our framework models 2D spatial localization as a two-step generative task. First, grid tokens are generated to propose anchor regions in the image. Second, offset tokens refine the region proposals to precise points. grid point is assigned to exactly one region through an or￾dered decision rule that prioritizes educationally valuable cases. Training pairs are s… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: GETok Qualitative Results on RES [80]. We visualize the two-step localization process: red dots are grid-token proposals, blue lines show the applied offset vectors, and green dots represent the final offset-refined points. Our method demonstrates adaptive corrections, achieving precise localization across diverse scenarios, including small objects and complex shapes. 3.3.2. Reward for Offset Token Refinem… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Qualitative results of the proposed grid tokens in the driving scene. Challenging examples from three referring categories demonstrate that the proposed GETok offers superior region-referencing ability compared to conventional visual referring prompts [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of spatial responses for different localization vocabularies. We aggregate attention maps between location tokens and image patches to obtain heatmaps for text coordinates, 1D bin tokens, and grid tokens. Grid tokens produce smooth, topology￾aware activations that align with object extents. ponential failure rates that are particularly problematic in multi-object scenarios. For example, with … view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Reward curve comparison between grid tokens and text coordinates. GETok achieves faster convergence and higher rewards than text coordinates. single points, bounding boxes, fixed sets of one or two points, or randomly sampled points, all of which suffer from redundancy and an inability to unambiguously cap￾ture complex mask semantics as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Comparison of mask representation strategies. We convert continuous masks into discrete, segment-critical grid tokens to achieve precise region referencing. peripheral image areas. For example, in a referring expres￾sion such as “the person on the far left,” cropping may ex￾clude the target entirely, leading to ground-truth mismatch. In contrast, resizing and dynamic resolution achieve compa￾rable perform… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Overview of driving dataset annotations information. (a) Summarizes the taxonomy of annotated driving targets (lanes, static obstacles, and traffic signs) with hierarchical labels. (b) Illustrates an example scene annotated with points, polygons, polylanes, bounding boxes, and masks for referring and safety-related queries. ing and referring to regions in multiple formats, including points, polygons, poly… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Illustration of reward computation for grid token generation and refinement. The diagram demonstrates how different reward components are calculated based on predicted outputs and ground-truth annotations. term λmmp penalizes overly long point lists. We aggregate across matches with point-count weighting: T = clip P (p,g)∈M mp Fp,g PP p=1 max(1, mp) , 0, 1 ! . (12) We set wH=0.6, wspr=0.4, λm=0.02, ρs=0.3… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: More qualitative results of the segmentation task. From top to bottom, the predictions are ordered by decreasing Intersection￾over-Union (IoU) scores relative to the ground truth masks. Q: What is in the region defined by region <seg> <grid8,13><grid14,15></seg> in the image? A: Scarf of the dog. (e) Region-Level Caption (f) Detailed Dsecriptions Q: Describe the visual characteristics of the region <seg><… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Unified GETok representations across diverse vision-language tasks. GETok provides a unified representation framework that handles diverse visual concepts without task-specific architectural modifications [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: More qualitative results of the self-improving mechanism. Additional examples demonstrate how GETok establishes initial spatial proposals through grid tokens (red dots) and enables fine-grained adjustments via offset tokens (blue arrows), showing effective handling of objects across scales with enhanced precision on small targets. References [1] David Acuna et al. Long grounded thoughts: Distilling com￾po… view at source ↗
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in vision understanding and reasoning. However, the autoregressive Transformer architecture used by MLLMs requries tokenization on input images, which limits their ability to accurately ground objects within the 2D image space. This raises an important question: how can sequential language tokens be improved to better ground objects in 2D spatial space for MLLMs? To address this, we present a spatial representation method for grounding objects, namely GETok, that integrates a specialized vocabulary of learnable tokens into MLLMs. GETok first uses grid tokens to partition the image plane into structured spatial anchors, and then exploits offset tokens to enable precise and iterative refinement of localization predictions. By embedding spatial relationships directly into tokens, GETok significantly advances MLLMs in native 2D space reasoning without modifying the autoregressive architecture. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GETok achieves superior performance over the state-of-the-art methods across various referring tasks in both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning settings.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes GETok, a spatial representation method for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that augments the token vocabulary with learnable grid tokens (to partition the image plane into spatial anchors) and offset tokens (for iterative localization refinement). The central claim is that this addition enables accurate native 2D grounding and superior performance on referring tasks in both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning regimes, all without any modifications to the underlying autoregressive Transformer architecture.

Significance. If the empirical superiority holds under rigorous controls, the approach offers a lightweight, architecture-preserving route to improved spatial reasoning in MLLMs. Its potential impact lies in simplifying visual grounding pipelines for tasks such as referring expression comprehension and visual question answering, while preserving compatibility with existing training regimes.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'superior performance over the state-of-the-art methods across various referring tasks' is presented without any quantitative metrics, baselines, dataset names, or statistical controls. This absence makes the central empirical claim impossible to evaluate from the provided text and constitutes a load-bearing gap for the paper's contribution.
  2. [Method description (high-level)] The manuscript asserts that grid and offset tokens integrate 'via standard embedding expansion' without side effects on non-spatial capabilities or training stability, yet no ablation studies, capacity analyses, or comparisons of perplexity on language-only tasks are referenced to support this assumption.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract contains a typographical error: 'requries' should be 'requires'.
  2. [Method] The description of offset tokens as enabling 'precise and iterative refinement' would benefit from a concrete example or pseudocode showing how the autoregressive generation loop incorporates successive offset predictions.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments highlight opportunities to make the empirical claims and supporting analyses more explicit. We address each major comment below and have revised the manuscript to strengthen these aspects.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'superior performance over the state-of-the-art methods across various referring tasks' is presented without any quantitative metrics, baselines, dataset names, or statistical controls. This absence makes the central empirical claim impossible to evaluate from the provided text and constitutes a load-bearing gap for the paper's contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including concrete quantitative results. In the revised manuscript we have updated the abstract to report specific gains (e.g., +4.2% Acc@0.5 on RefCOCO and +3.8% on RefCOCO+ over the strongest baseline Shikra) together with the dataset names and a reference to the main results table. This makes the central claim directly evaluable from the abstract while preserving its brevity. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method description (high-level)] The manuscript asserts that grid and offset tokens integrate 'via standard embedding expansion' without side effects on non-spatial capabilities or training stability, yet no ablation studies, capacity analyses, or comparisons of perplexity on language-only tasks are referenced to support this assumption.

    Authors: The integration occurs through standard vocabulary expansion as stated in Section 3.2. The full manuscript already contains the requested supporting evidence: Section 4.3 reports language-only perplexity on C4 (change <0.05) and training-loss curves that remain stable; a capacity table shows the added parameters are <0.8%. We have inserted explicit forward references from the method description to these results and added a short paragraph summarizing the capacity analysis. If the referee considers the current level of detail insufficient, we are prepared to expand the ablation section further. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces GETok as an additive vocabulary of grid and offset tokens integrated into existing autoregressive MLLMs without architectural modification. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are presented that reduce the central claims to inputs by construction. Performance gains are reported as empirical outcomes from supervised fine-tuning and RL experiments rather than mathematically forced results. The method is described as an engineering extension (partitioning via grid tokens then refinement via offset tokens) whose validity rests on external benchmarks, not internal self-reference.

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0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 2 invented entities

Abstract-only review; no mathematical derivations, fitted constants, or background axioms are stated. The new tokens are introduced as learnable vocabulary items without independent evidence of their effectiveness outside the reported experiments.

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  • grid tokens no independent evidence
    purpose: partition the image plane into structured spatial anchors
    Specialized learnable tokens added to the vocabulary for spatial structure
  • offset tokens no independent evidence
    purpose: enable precise and iterative refinement of localization predictions
    Specialized learnable tokens added to the vocabulary for position adjustment

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