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How a bounding-box coordinate is tokenized is a major source of error in generative visual grounding, and splitting each coordinate into axis-specific hundreds, tens, and ones tokens largely fixes it under matched training.

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Representing bounding-box coordinates as axis-specific hundreds, tens, and ones tokens, plus a geometry-aware GRPO reward, improves generative visual grounding accuracy.

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load-bearing objection A genuinely useful coordinate-tokenization idea with a solid controlled comparison, temporarily undermined by an undefined evaluation split that makes the headline benchmark table internally inconsistent. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2608.03471 v1 pith:RGSRCDLC submitted 2026-08-04 cs.CV

Hi-Token: Hierarchical Coordinate Tokenization for Generative Visual Grounding

classification cs.CV
keywords visual groundingcoordinate tokenizationgenerative vision-language modelsreferring expressionsGRPOreinforcement learningbounding-box generationtoken supervision density
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

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The reading

Generative vision-language models draw boxes by emitting coordinates as tokens, and this paper argues that the way those coordinates are tokenized — not just the model or the data — is a major source of grounding error. The central proposal, Hi-Token, replaces each atomic coordinate token with three axis-specific digit tokens (x or y, hundreds/tens/ones), so a box is generated as 12 tokens from 60 types, exposing coarse-to-fine numerical structure and reusing each token type about 50 times more densely than a 1,000-token flat scheme. Under an identical training recipe, this representation alone improves RefCOCO mIoU, P@0.5, and P@0.95 by 14.1, 14.9, and 8.7 points over flat coordinate tokens, and the gain transfers across three backbones. A companion geometry-aware GRPO reward, Hi-GAR, adds IoU feedback, tiered coordinate checks, and strict-threshold bonuses behind a validity gate, cutting low-overlap predictions and lifting moderate-IoU mass. The combined model, Hi-R1, reports the best value in eight of nine RefCOCO-family benchmark columns while keeping inference latency at the SFT level.

Core claim

On its own terms, the discovery is that coordinate representation is a large, fixable source of error in generative visual grounding. Hi-Token quantizes each normalized coordinate to 0..999 and decomposes it into axis-specific hundreds, tens, and ones tokens, generating a box as 12 tokens from 60 types instead of 4 from 1,000; the model learns coarse region, refined interval, and final alignment as ordered decisions. Under identical backbone, data, optimizer, decoding, and evaluator, this alone raises RefCOCO mIoU, P@0.5, and P@0.95 by 14.1, 14.9, and 8.7 points over flat tokens. The gated Hi-GAR reward — IoU plus tiered coordinate checks and strict-IoU bonuses, off below 0.01 overlap — then

What carries the argument

The carrying object is the Hi-Token vocabulary: per axis, three digit-role token sets — hundreds, tens, ones — for x and for y, giving 60 coordinate types in place of 1,000 flat atomic tokens. The carrying identity is the decomposition tau_a^v = (w_h^a, w_t^a, w_o^a) after quantization I_v = floor(v(M-1)), M = 1000, turning one categorical prediction into three ordered ones and multiplying mean supervision density fiftyfold: (12N/60)/(4N/1000) = 50. On the optimization side, the gated reward R = lambda_fmt R_fmt + lambda_iou R_iou + I_gate (lambda_hier R_hier + lambda_bonus R_bonus) uses I_gate = 1{IoU > 0.01} to silence coordinate-level rewards for near-zero-overlap boxes. The paper ascribe

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the held-out evaluation split is fair and comparable to the baselines': the paper never defines exactly what "RefCOCO" means in its tables (merged testA+testB, their average, or a custom partition), and every reported gain and baseline comparison rests on that unstated protocol.

What would settle it

Train the same fixed-recipe, 80k-sample pipeline with Hi-Token's 60-type vocabulary but randomly permuted digit values within each level, so axis decoupling and supervision density survive while numerical order is destroyed. If P@0.95 stays near the 31.7 Hi-Token level, digit order is not the mechanism; if it sags toward the 23.0 flat-token level, the coarse-to-fine story is confirmed. Independently, re-running the matched Flat-versus-Hi-Token comparison on a precisely defined testA+testB split of RefCOCO would settle whether the headline 14.1/14.9/8.7-point gaps are real or an artifact of the

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If this is right

  • Coordinate format becomes a controllable training decision: with backbone, data, optimizer, decoding, and evaluator fixed, switching from flat location tokens to Hi-Token moves RefCOCO P@0.95 from 23.0 to 31.7, with similar gains in mIoU and P@0.5.
  • The gain transfers across models: under the same fixed-recipe comparison, Hi-Token beats flat tokens by 8.7 points on Qwen2.5-VL-3B, 9.0 on Qwen3-VL-2B, and 2.6 on Qwen3-VL-4B, so the benefit is not an artifact of one backbone.
  • Reward shaping can rescue coarse localization without regressing strict metrics: Hi-GAR reduces the IoU<0.5 mass from 20.5% to 7.0% and adds 11.9 mIoU points, while P@0.95 still rises 1.7 points — where IoU-only GRPO would drop P@0.95 to 30.3.
  • The validity gate is load-bearing for the reward: removing it costs 3.9 mIoU points and 2.1 P@0.95 points, showing coordinate-level rewards must be suppressed when the predicted box barely overlaps the target.
  • A 3B model trained on 80k grounding samples can lead the RefCOCO family on most reported columns, with inference latency effectively unchanged because the reward is used only during training.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The paper deliberately leaves the three candidate causes of its representation gain entangled — smaller vocabulary, axis decoupling, and digit-level order. My reading is that in this 80k-sample regime, reuse dominates: a matched 60-type flat vocabulary with permuted digit roles would directly test how much of the 8.7-point P@0.95 gain comes from numerical order at all.
  • If representation is what carries grounding quality, the same 12-token decomposition should transfer to other continuous coordinate outputs in VLMs — detection boxes, OCR regions, keypoints. The fixed 1000-bin grid marks the current ceiling: small objects reach only 1.30 P@0.95, so adaptive or scale-conditioned grids are the natural next step.
  • The stage-wise results carry an ordering signal: the representation alone added 8.7 P@0.95 points, while the reward added only 1.7. If that ordering holds, strict-threshold localization is set by how coordinates are expressed rather than by reward design, and further strict-metric gains may come cheaper from tokenization and data than from RL.
  • The near-tens boundary shows no drop (+0.6 points) while the near-hundreds boundary drops 2.4 points, which hints that residual failures are coarse-region mistakes rather than fine rounding — suggesting a coarser anchoring mechanism, not finer digits, as the next improvement lever.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Hi-Token, a coordinate representation that decomposes each normalized bounding-box coordinate into axis-specific hundreds/tens/ones tokens, and Hi-GAR, a GRPO reward combining box IoU, tiered coordinate verification, strict-IoU bonuses, and a validity gate. The method is evaluated on RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, and RefCOCOg with Qwen2.5-VL-3B and two Qwen3-VL backbones. The authors report that Hi-Token improves RefCOCO mIoU/P@0.5/P@0.95 by 14.1/14.9/8.7 points over a flat token baseline under matched training conditions, and that the full Hi-R1 model achieves the best value in eight of nine benchmark columns compared with specialist grounding models. The paper also provides supervision-density analyses, stage-wise IoU distributions, object-scale diagnostics, and an honest handling of an extra-tuning stress test.

Significance. If the benchmark numbers are measured on standard, comparable splits, the paper presents a useful and simple contribution: changing the output tokenization while keeping the architecture fixed produces substantial localization gains, and the proposed reward avoids the strict-metric regression seen with generic IoU-only RL. The matched Flat-versus-Hi-Token comparison in Table 2 and the explicit caveats about causal attribution are methodological strengths. The central reservation is that the evaluation split is undefined and the internal numbers are inconsistent, which prevents verification of the headline benchmark-level claims until this is resolved.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 4.1 / Appendix A.4, Tables 1 and 10] The evaluation split for the RefCOCO family is never specified. Table 10's Base row (IoU intervals 20.4, 54.6, 21.3, 2.5, 1.2) implies P@0.5=79.6 and P@0.95=1.2 for Qwen2.5-VL-3B, but Table 1 reports the same model at P@0.5=60.2 and P@0.95=3.8. The Hi-R1 row likewise implies P@0.5=93.0 and P@0.95=33.7 versus 93.1 and 33.4 in Table 1. These are not rounding differences. Because Table 1 is the basis for the 'eight of nine columns' claim, the paper must state which split (testA, testB, merged testA+testB, or custom partition) is used for each table and make the benchmark comparison verifiable.
  2. [Section 4.3 / Table 1] The cross-model comparisons with Rex-Omni, VLM-R1, and GLM-family baselines are only valid if the evaluation split and coordinate conversion match those in the original publications. Appendix A.4 states only that 'the same parser and evaluator' is used for every compared model, not that the split matches the baselines' reported testA/testB protocol. If Hi-R1's numbers come from a merged or custom split while the cited baselines report conventional splits, the 'eight of nine' claim is not a valid comparison. Please report results separately for testA/testB (or justify why a merged split is comparable) and reconcile Table 10's implied P@0.5/P@0.95 with Table 1.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 3.2, Eq. (3)] The reconstruction formula is ambiguous as typeset: the numerator should be parenthesized as (100·val(w_h) + 10·val(w_t) + val(w_o)) / (M−1).
  2. [Section 1 / Related Work] Typo: 'LLaV A-style models' should be 'LLaVA-style models'.
  3. [Appendix A.1] Minor formatting: 'learning rate of 5×10 −6' has a missing space, and 'bfloat16' should be 'BF16' for consistency.
  4. [Table 4] The header row is confusing: 'Setting RefCOCO P@.95' is separated from the column labels 'mIoU P@.5 P@.95 RefCOCO+ RefCOCOg'. Please reformat so it is clear that the first group of columns refers to RefCOCO.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the claimed gains are empirical matched comparisons, not consequences of the definitions.

full rationale

The paper's central claims are controlled empirical comparisons. Table 2 compares Hi-Token SFT against a flat-token SFT baseline under the same backbone, 80k split, optimizer, schedule, decoding, and evaluator; the improvement (14.1 mIoU, 14.9 P@0.5, 8.7 P@0.95) is measured, not derived. Hi-GAR is an RL reward whose weights and thresholds are fixed a priori (Appendix A.3) rather than fitted to the test set; reporting P@0.5/P@0.95 after optimizing a reward that includes those thresholds is a normal training/evaluation loop, not a prediction that reduces to its own input. The 50x supervision-density ratio is an algebraic identity of the two tokenizations, but the paper explicitly labels it descriptive ('does not causally separate reuse from hierarchical position and axis-specific vocabularies'), so it is not used to manufacture a result. The only self-citation (Jiao et al. 2026, 'Smooth Operator') appears in related work and is not load-bearing. The undefined RefCOCO-family evaluation split is a reproducibility concern and should be corrected, but it is not circularity under the review's definitions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method introduces no new physical entities. The free parameters are all design choices (quantization, reward weights, tolerances, gate threshold), and the axioms are domain assumptions about representation sufficiency, architecture compatibility, evaluation protocol, and reward non-overfitting.

free parameters (5)
  • Quantization resolution M = 1000
    The normalized coordinate range is quantized to 1000 bins (Eq. 1). This resolution is chosen by hand and directly determines the granularity of the representation and the scale of the error tolerances.
  • Reward weights lambda_fmt, lambda_iou, lambda_hier, lambda_bonus = 0.5, 1.0, 0.5, 2.0
    Weights in Eq. (8) are manually chosen 'as interpretable geometric margins' (Appendix A.3), not optimized or cross-validated.
  • Coordinate tolerances tau_h, tau_t, tau_o = 50, 10, 3 bins
    Tolerances in Eq. (12) set error margins of 5%, 1%, 0.3%; chosen by hand.
  • Strict-IoU milestone set and bonus weights = M={0.5,0.9,0.95}
    Milestones in Eq. (13) and the bonus magnitudes are design choices; no sensitivity sweep is reported.
  • Validity gate threshold = 0.01 IoU
    Gate in Eq. (11); chosen by hand, one on/off ablation reported.
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption A standard autoregressive VLM can learn the 60-token axis-specific digit vocabulary with the same architecture and fine-tuning pipeline.
    The method's premise is that compatibility is retained; Section 3.2 claims this but it is tested only on three backbones.
  • domain assumption 1000-bin quantization of normalized coordinates is a sufficient representation for grounding accuracy across object scales.
    Section 3.2 Eq. (1) fixes M=1000; the limitations section acknowledges small-object ultra-strict localization is open, implying the assumption is imperfect.
  • domain assumption The evaluation protocol is consistent with that used by the cited baselines, including an unspecified split for 'RefCOCO'.
    Section 4.1 and A.4 do not define the split, so comparability with baselines like Rex-Omni is assumed.
  • domain assumption Reward hyperparameters do not overfit the test sets.
    The authors state values were 'selected as interpretable geometric margins rather than through test-set optimization' (Appendix A.3); this is an unverifiable claim.

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Pith. "Pith review of Hi-Token: Hierarchical Coordinate Tokenization for Generative Visual Grounding." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/RGSRCDLC

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Hi-Token: Hierarchical Coordinate Tokenization for Generative Visual Grounding},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/RGSRCDLC}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2608.03471}
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Generative Vision-Language Models (VLMs) commonly treat bounding-box coordinates as independent output symbols, leaving numerical order and axis semantics implicit. We identify this representation as an important source of error in visual grounding. Hi-Token encodes each coordinate with axis-specific tokens for the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, which adds coarse-to-fine structure and increases token reuse while retaining the existing VLM architecture. Hi-GAR complements this representation with a geometry-based reward for Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), using box overlap and coordinate accuracy at multiple scales. Controlled comparisons under matched training conditions show that Hi-Token improves localization throughout the evaluated IoU range. Hi-GAR further reduces low-overlap predictions and is used only during training. Experiments on three VLM backbones and the RefCOCO family show consistent gains across models and benchmarks. Hi-R1 achieves higher values than strong specialist baselines on most reported metrics. Analyses of token frequency, digit boundaries, object scale, and IoU distributions explain the effects of coordinate representation and reward training. The results show that structured coordinate generation provides an effective approach to generative visual grounding.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2608.03471 by Dongming Zhang, Hao Wu, Jian Xue, Ke Lu, Kun Dong, Shun Mao, Siwen Jiao, Xiuyuan Zhu, Zijin Du.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of Hi-Token and the geometry-aware post-training framework. Left: Hi-Token represents each bounding box as a 12-token sequence by decomposing each coordinate into axis-specific hundreds, tens, and ones tokens. Right: The model is optimized with GRPO using the Hi-GAR reward. The reward combines format validity, IoU feedback, tiered coordinate verification, and strict-IoU bonuses: Rtotal = Rfmt +Rio… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Qualitative comparison. For a query with overlapping targets, Qwen2.5-VL-7B and Rex-Omni produce less accurate boxes with IoU scores of 0.40 and 0.55, respectively. The full Hi-R1 model localizes the referred zebra more accurately, reaching an IoU of 0.95. 3 Method 3.1 Overview Hi-Token aims to improve the coordinate represen￾tation used by generative visual grounding mod￾els. Existing autoregressive VLMs … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Hi-Token receives denser and more even token supervision, transfers across backbones, and separates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Hi-Token remains stable at tens transitions and retains useful small-object localization at moderate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: The geometric components of Hi-GAR improve over training, while format compliance stabilizes during [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Additional Hi-R1 predictions at different IoU [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗

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