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This research introduces LIFT, a lightweight method that transfers reasoning capabilities from base Large Language Models to Vision-Language Models without retraining their backbones. By injecting specific "reasoning vectors" derived from the original LLM, the approach successfully mitigates the degradation of language-side reasoning often caused by multimodal alignment. The findings confirm that leveraging the base model's latent reasoning skills is more effective than relying solely on the aligned VLM for restoring complex cognitive abilities.
Can Linguistic Reasoning Vectors Enhance Multimodal Reasoning Ability?
arXiv:2609.31140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are built by extending pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual modules and multimodal alignment. However, this multimodal scaling often degrades the language-side reasoning ability originally encoded in the base LLM. While the base LLM retains usable reasoning after scaling, the aligned VLM itself cannot reliably access this ability. Therefore, recovering the degraded reasoning capability in VLMs would benefit more from seeking help from the base LLM than from the VLM alone. Motivated by this, we propose LIFT (Language-side reasonIng Facilitation and Transfer), a lightweight vector-intervention method that transfers reasoning capability from the base LLM to the VLM without retraining the backbone. LIFT defines Reasoning Vectors as answer-token hidden-state differences between a Reasoner path with an explicit reasoning trace and a Solver path without it, and injects these vectors into language-side activations of the target VLM. LIFT further supports learnable vector adaptation while keeping the VLM backbone frozen. We evaluate LIFT on two VLMs across six reasoning benchmarks, comparing Reasoning Vectors extracted from the base LLM and from the aligned VLM under matched protocols. Results show that LLM-derived vectors consistently outperform VLM-derived vectors, confirming that the base LLM is a more effective source for recovering reasoning. LIFT partially recovers degraded reasoning through lightweight language-side interventions. Further analyses show that Reasoning Vectors influence intermediate reasoning behavior rather than merely altering final answers. The source code will be released soon.
Title:Can Linguistic Reasoning Vectors Enhance Multimodal Reasoning Ability?
Abstract:Most Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are built by extending pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs) with visual modules and multimodal alignment. However, this multimodal scaling often degrades the language-side reasoning ability originally encoded in the base LLM. While the base LLM retains usable reasoning after scaling, the aligned VLM itself cannot reliably access this ability. Therefore, recovering the degraded reasoning capability in VLMs would benefit more from seeking help from the base LLM than from the VLM alone. Motivated by this, we propose LIFT (Language-side reasonIng Facilitation and Transfer), a lightweight vector-intervention method that transfers reasoning capability from the base LLM to the VLM without retraining the backbone. LIFT defines Reasoning Vectors as answer-token hidden-state differences between a Reasoner path with an explicit reasoning trace and a Solver path without it, and injects these vectors into language-side activations of the target VLM. LIFT further supports learnable vector adaptation while keeping the VLM backbone frozen. We evaluate LIFT on two VLMs across six reasoning benchmarks, comparing Reasoning Vectors extracted from the base LLM and from the aligned VLM under matched protocols. Results show that LLM-derived vectors consistently outperform VLM-derived vectors, confirming that the base LLM is a more effective source for recovering reasoning. LIFT partially recovers degraded reasoning through lightweight language-side interventions. Further analyses show that Reasoning Vectors influence intermediate reasoning behavior rather than merely altering final answers. The source code will be released soon.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.31140 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2609.31140v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.31140 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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