ResearchResearch paperReasoning & Planning · Large Language Models1 source · Oct 9, 2026

VisualCoding: Learning Executable Skills for Reliable Visual Reasoning

We propose VisualCoding, which combines execution-guided acquisition of reusable visual programs with direct adoption of their answers on applicable inputs.

Key points

  • Learning reusable skills can improve visual reasoning agents, yet applying a skill still requires the agent to implement or invoke a procedure and produce the final answer.
  • Execution-Guided Program Acquisition composes visual primitives and additional code into family-level solvers, then iteratively tests and revises them on labeled training instances.
  • Scope-Aware Direct Execution runs a retained solver and returns its valid in-scope answer.
  • We evaluate VisualCoding on four models across four benchmarks spanning 69 task families.

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  • [1]VisualCoding: Learning Executable Skills for Reliable Visual Reasoning
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 9, 11:46 PM
    We propose VisualCoding, which combines execution-guided acquisition of reusable visual programs with direct adoption of their answers on applicable inputs.
    Learning reusable skills can improve visual reasoning agents, yet applying a skill still requires the agent to implement or invoke a procedure and produce the final answer.

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