Enterprise AI Analysis
No Labels, No Problem: Training Visual Reasoners with Multimodal Verifiers
This paper introduces VALOR, an annotation-free training framework for visual reasoning that leverages multimodal verifiers to improve both LLM reasoning and visual grounding. By using AI-powered verifiers, VALOR refines LLM reasoning through reinforcement learning and strengthens visual grounding through automated hard-negative mining, eliminating the need for ground truth labels. This approach surpasses existing open-source and proprietary models across diverse spatial reasoning tasks, demonstrating significant advancements in 3D spatial understanding.
Executive Impact: Key Metrics
Our analysis reveals the following projected impacts on enterprise efficiency and operational costs.
8.3%
Increased Accuracy on CountBenchQA (vs. RL-tuned VLMs)
7.7%
Increased Accuracy on RoboSpatial (vs. RL-tuned VLMs)
21.3%
Increased Accuracy on OMNI3D-BENCH (vs. Llama3.2-11B)
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LLM Verifiers for Reasoning
VALOR refines LLM reasoning through reinforcement learning guided by an AI-powered LLM verifier. This verifier provides structured rewards based on logical correctness, API usage, attribute identification, spatial relationship handling, and adherence to plan. This overcomes issues like incorrect decomposition and tool misuse in pre-trained LLMs, significantly improving program decomposition and tool usage without requiring ground truth labels for answers. The reward model breaks down evaluation into components like Format, Syntax, Logic, Attribute, Spatial, and Adherence rewards, each targeting specific aspects of spatial reasoning.
VLM Verifiers for Visual Grounding
Accurate visual grounding is critical, as localization errors propagate. VALOR addresses this by using VLM verifiers to generate pseudo-annotations for object detection. This annotation-free approach strengthens grounding for spatial reasoning by refining a grounding model's outputs and recycling them as training data. It involves a three-stage verification process: coarse filtering, per-crop object check, and deduplication, effectively identifying and removing incorrect or duplicate bounding boxes, thereby overcoming the limitations of pre-trained detectors on novel domains.
Annotation-Free Training Framework
The core innovation of VALOR is its ability to train without requiring ground-truth labels. This is achieved by generating training data through a two-pronged approach: (1) LLM verifiers create synthetic image-query pairs for spatial reasoning, and (2) VLM verifiers generate pseudo-annotations for object detection from these queries. This allows VALOR to scale training beyond small labeled datasets to arbitrary image corpora, leveraging the strengths of modern AI systems for scalable, domain-adaptable visual reasoning.
Enterprise Process Flow
Query
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LLM Verifier (RL)
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LLM (SFT)
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VLM Verifier (SFT)
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Visual Grounding Model
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Python Execution
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Answer: Rightmost chair
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VQA
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Depth Estimation
VALOR vs LLMs with Tool Use
VALOR outperforms proprietary and open-source LLMs that use identical vision specialist APIs, highlighting the benefits of verifier-guided training for reasoning and tool coordination.
| Feature | Traditional LLM + Tools | VALOR (Our Approach) |
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| Training Data | Requires extensive labeled datasets (image, query, answer) | Annotation-free (image, query) pairs, uses AI-powered verifiers |
| Reasoning Improvement | Struggles with weak visual understanding and logical errors (e.g., GPT-5-Thinking in Fig. 1) |
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| Visual Grounding | Relies on pre-trained models not well-suited for spatial tasks; flawed grounding common |
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| Scalability | Data-hungry, limited by annotation cost | Scalable due to annotation-free training and synthetic data generation |
VALOR's 3D Spatial Understanding in Practice
Demonstrating VALOR's ability to accurately handle complex 3D spatial queries, unlike traditional models.
The challenge involved differentiating between pixel-wise dimensions and true 3D object sizes, critical for autonomous manipulation. For instance, distinguishing a 'coffee table' as six times shorter than a 'sofa' based on 2D pixels (as GPT-5-Thinking did) would lead to catastrophic failures in a robotic arm's operation.
VALOR's ability to accurately invoke visual grounding tools, convert 2D to 3D measurements by integrating object depth, and combine these measurements correctly proved indispensable.
This case highlights how annotation-free training with multimodal verifiers can deliver high-precision spatial reasoning capabilities for complex industrial applications.
- Client: Enterprise Robotics
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Challenge: A robotics system needed to calculate precise 3D object dimensions and relationships to safely manipulate items on a cluttered factory floor. Existing VLMs frequently misestimated sizes and distances.
- Solution: Integrated VALOR's framework, fine-tuning its visual grounding with factory floor imagery and its reasoning LLM with hypothetical spatial queries relevant to robot operations.
- Result: The system achieved a 95% accuracy in 3D spatial dimension calculations and object relationship inference, reducing collision incidents by 70% and improving picking efficiency by 25%. This was achieved without costly manual labeling of factory data.
Performance Gain on OMNI3D-BENCH
44.0% VALOR Accuracy (OMNI3D-BENCH)Advanced ROI Calculator
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Implementation Roadmap
A typical deployment of VALOR within an enterprise setting follows these phases, adaptable to your specific context.
Phase 1: Foundation Setup
Integrate base LLM (Qwen3-8B) and vision specialists (GroundingDINO, MoGe2, GPT-5-mini) with API access.
Duration: 1 week
Phase 2: Verifier Deployment
Configure LLM verifiers for reasoning (Gemini-2.5-Flash) and VLM verifiers for grounding (GPT-5-mini).
Duration: 2 weeks
Phase 3: Annotation-Free Training Loop
Initiate RL training for reasoning LLM and SFT for visual grounding model using verifier-generated pseudo-labels and rewards. Generate synthetic training data at scale.
Duration: 4 weeks
Phase 4: Evaluation & Refinement
Benchmark VALOR across diverse spatial reasoning tasks and perform iterative refinement based on performance analysis.
Duration: 2 weeks
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