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arxiv: 2605.14928 · v1 · pith:XVQGNEMTnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.CL

Chain-of-Procedure: Hierarchical Visual-Language Reasoning for Procedural QA

Guanhua Chen , Yutong Yao , Shenghe Sun , Ci-Jun Gao , Shudong Liu , Lidia S. Chao , Feng Wan , Derek F. Wong This is my paper

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keywords visual procedural reasoningChain-of-Procedurevision-language modelsprocedural question answeringhierarchical reasoningmultimodal benchmarknext-step prediction
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A retrieval-then-decomposition pipeline lets vision-language models answer next-step questions from procedure photos with up to 13 percent higher accuracy.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper sets out to show that vision-language models underperform on visual procedure question answering because they cannot reliably pull structured instructions from an image of an intermediate state and because image sequences do not line up with textual step breakdowns. It introduces a benchmark called ProcedureVQA to measure this gap and proposes Chain-of-Procedure, a three-stage process that first retrieves relevant instructions from visual cues, then refines the steps through semantic decomposition, and finally predicts the next action. A reader would care if this holds because many everyday tasks, from assembly to cooking to device repair, involve asking what to do next while looking at the current state. If the claim is correct, the same models can be made useful for these tasks by adding an explicit retrieval and alignment layer rather than relying on end-to-end generation alone.

Core claim

The authors claim that the two limitations of inadequate cross-modal retrieval of structured procedures and misalignment between image-sequence granularity and textual step decomposition are the main obstacles for VLMs on visual procedure QA. They argue that a hierarchical framework called Chain-of-Procedure, which retrieves relevant instructions using visual cues, performs step refinement through semantic decomposition, and then generates the next step, directly mitigates both problems. Experiments on the new ProcedureVQA benchmark across six VLMs show absolute gains of up to 13 percent over standard prompting baselines.

What carries the argument

Chain-of-Procedure (CoP), the three-stage pipeline of visual retrieval of instructions, semantic step decomposition, and next-step generation.

If this is right

  • Vision-language models gain up to 13 percent absolute accuracy on next-step prediction when the retrieval and decomposition stages are added.
  • The ProcedureVQA benchmark provides a standardized test set for measuring procedural reasoning from intermediate visual states.
  • The same hierarchical pattern improves results across six different vision-language models without retraining.
  • Explicit separation of retrieval from generation addresses the cross-modal and granularity problems that standard end-to-end prompting leaves unsolved.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If retrieval is the dominant bottleneck, then stronger visual search modules inside VLMs could produce further gains even without the full CoP pipeline.
  • The same staged approach might transfer to video sequences or to non-procedural tasks that also require matching visual states to textual plans.
  • Success on ProcedureVQA would suggest that many current VLM failures on sequential tasks stem from missing explicit alignment mechanisms rather than insufficient model capacity.

Load-bearing premise

The two limitations named in the abstract—inadequate cross-modal retrieval and granularity misalignment—are the primary causes of poor performance and can be fixed by the retrieval-then-decomposition pipeline.

What would settle it

A controlled test in which the retrieval stage is replaced by perfect ground-truth instructions and step boundaries are manually aligned, yet accuracy gains disappear or remain below 3 percent.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.14928 by Ci-Jun Gao, Derek F. Wong, Feng Wan, Guanhua Chen, Lidia S. Chao, Shenghe Sun, Shudong Liu, Yutong Yao.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: An example of the next-step prediction task. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The t-SNE of the training data and in-domain [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The experimental results (Accuracy) of our [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The overview of our proposed framework. Three critical findings emerge. First, VLMs ex￾cel at structural validation tasks (SIV and CPM: 78.9% and 75.6% average accuracy) but struggle with procedural reasoning tasks (NSP and DPA), revealing that multimodal alignment capabilities exceed causal reasoning proficiency. Second, the 23.9% performance gap between CSI and NSP highlights VLMs’ fundamental difficulty… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: The average LLM-score of fine-tuned Qwen2.5-VL-7B and GPT-4o on different step lengths. tively impacting final performance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The LLM-score of fine-tuned Qwen2.5-VL￾7B and GPT-4o on five domains separately. strates statistically significant superiority across both metrics. Compared to the GPT-4o baseline, it achieves a 48% “Win” rate with 20% “Equal” rate. Against Qwen2.5-VL-7B baseline, it attains a 65% “Win” rate, which is large greater than the “Worse” rate. Inter-annotator agreement (Fleiss k = 0.51) confirms moderate consens… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The results of three phases of our CoP on five [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The results with different numbers of negative [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive results on standard image-text tasks, yet their potential for visual procedure question answering (VP-QA) remains largely unexplored. VP-QA presents unique challenges where users query next-step actions by uploading images for intermediate states of complex procedures. To systematically evaluate VLMs on this practical task, we propose ProcedureVQA, a novel multimodal benchmark specifically designed for visual procedural reasoning. Through comprehensive analysis, we identify two critical limitations in current VLMs: inadequate cross-modal retrieval of structured procedures given visual states, and misalignment between image sequence granularity and textual step decomposition. To address these issues, we present Chain-of-Procedure (CoP), a hierarchical reasoning framework that first retrieves relevant instructions using visual cues, then performs step refinement through semantic decomposition, and finally generates the next step. Experiments across six VLMs demonstrate CoP's effectiveness, achieving up to 13% absolute improvement over standard baselines.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces ProcedureVQA, a new multimodal benchmark for visual procedural question answering (VP-QA), and proposes Chain-of-Procedure (CoP), a hierarchical visual-language reasoning framework. CoP first retrieves relevant instructions using visual cues, performs step refinement via semantic decomposition, and generates the next step. The abstract identifies two limitations in current VLMs (inadequate cross-modal retrieval of structured procedures and misalignment between image sequence granularity and textual step decomposition) and reports that experiments across six VLMs show CoP achieving up to 13% absolute improvement over standard baselines.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under rigorous evaluation, the work would be significant for the field by establishing a dedicated benchmark for an underexplored practical task (VP-QA) and demonstrating a retrieval-then-decomposition pipeline that targets specific cross-modal and granularity issues in VLMs. The approach could inform future procedural reasoning systems in applications such as instructional guidance.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The central claim of up to 13% absolute improvement is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet no baseline definitions, dataset statistics (e.g., number of procedures, images per procedure, question types), evaluation metrics, or error analysis are supplied. This prevents verification of whether the gains are attributable to CoP rather than benchmark artifacts or weak baselines.
  2. [§3 and §5] §3 (Benchmark Construction) and §5 (Analysis): The identification of the two critical limitations as primary causes of poor VP-QA performance is asserted via 'comprehensive analysis,' but without quantitative evidence (e.g., retrieval accuracy metrics before/after CoP or granularity mismatch measurements) or ablations isolating each CoP component, the motivation and mitigation claims cannot be assessed as load-bearing.
minor comments (1)
  1. [§2] Notation for the three stages of CoP (retrieval, refinement, generation) should be formalized with consistent symbols or pseudocode to improve clarity of the hierarchical pipeline.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to improve clarity and verifiability of our claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): The central claim of up to 13% absolute improvement is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet no baseline definitions, dataset statistics (e.g., number of procedures, images per procedure, question types), evaluation metrics, or error analysis are supplied. This prevents verification of whether the gains are attributable to CoP rather than benchmark artifacts or weak baselines.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and experimental section would benefit from explicit inclusion of these details to strengthen verifiability. The full manuscript contains dataset construction details in §3 and experimental setup in §4, but we will revise the abstract to summarize key statistics (number of procedures, images per procedure, question types) and metrics. We will also add explicit baseline definitions, a summary table, and an error analysis subsection in §4. These changes will be incorporated in the revised version. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3 and §5] §3 (Benchmark Construction) and §5 (Analysis): The identification of the two critical limitations as primary causes of poor VP-QA performance is asserted via 'comprehensive analysis,' but without quantitative evidence (e.g., retrieval accuracy metrics before/after CoP or granularity mismatch measurements) or ablations isolating each CoP component, the motivation and mitigation claims cannot be assessed as load-bearing.

    Authors: We acknowledge the need for stronger quantitative support. While §3 and §5 present analysis of the identified limitations, we will add retrieval accuracy metrics (before/after CoP), granularity mismatch measurements, and component-wise ablations in the revised §5 to provide direct evidence. This will better substantiate the motivation and effectiveness of CoP. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper introduces a new benchmark (ProcedureVQA) and an empirical framework (CoP) consisting of retrieval-then-decomposition steps, evaluated directly via accuracy gains on six VLMs. No equations, closed-form derivations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains appear in the provided abstract or description. The central claims reduce to experimental comparisons rather than any construction that equates outputs to inputs by definition. This matches the default expectation of a non-circular empirical contribution.

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