MentalBlackboard: Evaluating Spatial Visualization via Mathematical Transformations
Spatial visualization is the mental ability to imagine, transform, and manipulate the spatial characteristics of objects and actions. This intelligence is a part of human cognition where actions and perception are connected on a mental level. To explore whether state-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit this ability, we develop MentalBlackboard, an open-ended spatial visualization benchmark for Paper Folding and Hole Punching tests within two core tasks: prediction and planning. Our prediction experiments reveal that models struggle with applying symmetrical transformations, even when they predict the sequence of unfolding steps correctly. Also, rotations introduce a significa...
| Authors | Nilay Yilmaz, Maitreya Patel, Naga Sai Abhiram Kusumba et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 22 February 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 22 February 2026 |
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