Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap

As of 23 July 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 11 of 11 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2604.16256.

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This paper cites OpenAI GPT-5 System Card.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap OpenAI GPT-5 System Card

Reference 1

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This paper cites EasyARC: Evaluating Vision Language Models on True Visual Reasoning.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap EasyARC: Evaluating Vision Language Models on True Visual Reasoning

Reference 2

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Observation 86b2b7ce-77b7-49d2-80a1-a10ee83e03a1 · outbound

This paper cites Emogen: Emotional image content generation with text-to-image diffusion models.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap Emogen: Emotional image content generation with text-to-image diffusion models

Reference 3

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This paper cites URLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73242-3 10.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap URLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73242-3 10

Reference 4

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This paper cites You are given a cross math puzzle in a textual markdown grid format.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap You are given a **cross math puzzle** in a **textual markdown grid format**

Reference 8

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Observation c43f78a9-55c5-4b25-84e4-7c2adf8cc0d8 · outbound

This paper cites You are given a cross math puzzle in a image format.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap You are given a **cross math puzzle** in a **image format**

Reference 12

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Observation b6a6c397-ee48-4675-9520-29d59af3fc58 · outbound

This paper cites You are given a cross math puzzle in both image format and textual markdown format.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap You are given a **cross math puzzle** in **both image format and textual markdown format**

Reference 16

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Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap Unresolved cited work

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Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap Unresolved cited work

Reference 18

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Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap Unresolved cited work

Reference 19

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This paper cites You are given a cross math puzzle in a textual markdown grid format.

Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap You are given a **cross math puzzle** in a **textual markdown grid format**

Reference 20

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-05-20T18:23:38.166227Z

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Pith citing papers

Observation bb1354e6-797d-4137-88e5-ff5f2f9e9713 · inbound

SeePhys Pro: Diagnosing Modality Transfer and Blind-Training Effects in Multimodal RLVR for Physics Reasoning cites this paper.

SeePhys Pro: Diagnosing Modality Transfer and Blind-Training Effects in Multimodal RLVR for Physics Reasoning Do Vision-Language Models Truly Perform Vision Reasoning? A Rigorous Study of the Modality Gap

Reference 30

Resolution: verified exact; local_arxiv, observed 2026-05-12T05:36:26.064995Z

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Observation a8d8672a-8a01-4291-b1b9-c2915943612b · inbound

SeePhys Pro: Diagnosing Modality Transfer and Blind-Training Effects in Multimodal RLVR for Physics Reasoning cites this paper.

Reference 30

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