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Evaluating VLMs' Spatial Reasoning Over Robot Motion: A Step Towards Robot Planning with Motion Preferences

arXiv:2603.13100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding user instructions and object spatial relations in surrounding environments is crucial for intelligent robot systems to assist humans in various tasks. The natural language and spatial reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have the potential to enhance the generalization of robot planners on new tasks, objects, and motion specifications. While foundation models have been applied to task planning, it is still unclear the degree to which they have the capability of spatial reasoning required to enforce user preferences or constraints on motion, such as desired distances from objects, topological properties, or motion style preferences. In this paper, we evaluate the capability of four state-of-the-art VLMs at spatial reasoning over robot motion, using four different querying methods. Our results show that, with the highest-performing querying method, Qwen2.5-VL achieves 71.4% accuracy zero-shot and 75% on a smaller model after fine-tuning, and GPT-4o leads to lower performance. We evaluate two types of motion preferences (object-proximity and path-style), and we also analyze the trade-off between accuracy and computation cost in number of tokens. This work shows some promise in the potential of VLM integration with robot motion planning pipelines.

MalURLBench: A Benchmark Evaluating Agents' Vulnerabilities When Processing Web URLs

arXiv:2601.18113v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based web agents have become increasingly popular for their utility in daily life and work. However, they exhibit critical vulnerabilities when processing malicious URLs: accepting a disguised malicious URL enables subsequent access to unsafe webpages, which can cause severe damage to service providers and users. Despite this risk, no benchmark currently targets this emerging threat. To address this gap, we propose MalURLBench, the first benchmark for evaluating LLMs' vulnerabilities to malicious URLs. MalURLBench contains 61,845 attack instances spanning 10 real-world scenarios and 7 categories of real malicious websites. Experiments with 12 popular LLMs reveal that existing models struggle to detect elaborately disguised malicious URLs. We further identify and analyze key factors that impact attack success rates and propose URLGuard, a lightweight defense module. We believe this work will provide a foundational resource for advancing the security of web agents. Our code is available at https://github.com/JiangYingEr/MalURLBench.

GeoSeg: Training-Free Reasoning-Driven Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery

arXiv:2603.03983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in MLLMs are reframing segmentation from fixed-category prediction to instruction-grounded localization. While reasoning based segmentation has progressed rapidly in natural scenes, remote sensing lacks a generalizable solution due to the prohibitive cost of reasoning-oriented data and domain-specific challenges like overhead viewpoints. We present GeoSeg, a zero-shot, training-free framework that bypasses the supervision bottleneck for reasoning-driven remote sensing segmentation. GeoSeg couples MLLM reasoning with precise localization via: (i) bias-aware coordinate refinement to correct systematic grounding shifts and (ii) a dual-route prompting mechanism to fuse semantic intent with fine-grained spatial cues. We also introduce GeoSeg-Bench, a diagnostic benchmark of 810 image--query pairs with hierarchical difficulty levels. Experiments show that GeoSeg consistently outperforms all baselines, with extensive ablations confirming the effectiveness and necessity of each component.
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