让AI像科学家一样看图推理,能动手改图并循环优化判断。
S1-VL: Scientific Multimodal Reasoning Model with Thinking-with-Images

- 引入'看图思考'模式,用代码操作图像并迭代分析。
- 在高分辨率图表和微观图像理解上超越现有模型,多任务平均提升12.3%。
- 适合需要图像交互的科研场景,如论文解读、实验数据分析。
我们提出S1-VL,一个面向科学领域的多模态推理模型,原生支持两种互补的推理范式:科学推理(依赖结构化思维链)与看图思考(在推理过程中通过执行Python代码主动操作图像)。在看图思考模式下,模型在沙盒环境中生成并执行图像处理代码,获取中间视觉结果,以多轮迭代方式持续推理。该设计对高分辨率科学图表解析、显微图像理解及几何辅助推理等挑战性任务尤为有效。我们收集了涵盖数学、物理、化学、天文、地理和生物六个学科的科学多模态数据集,并构建六维质量过滤框架。为缓解现有数据集中冗余、无效和错误的视觉操作问题,提出多阶段过滤流水线与自适应数据路由策略,将低视觉信息增益样本转为纯推理模式数据,使模型学会判断图像操作是否必要。S1-VL基于Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking,通过四阶段渐进式训练流程:科学多模态SFT、看图思考冷启动SFT,以及两个阶段的SAPO强化学习。在13个基准测试中评估S1-VL-32B,结果表明其在全部五个看图思考基准(包括HRBench-4K、HRBench-8K、MME-RealWorld-CN、MME-RealWorld-Lite和V*)上达到当前最佳表现,且在物理和VRSBench等科学推理基准上也优于对比系统。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present S1-VL, a multimodal reasoning model for scientific domains that natively supports two complementary reasoning paradigms: Scientific Reasoning, which relies on structured chain-of-thought, and Thinking-with-Images, which enables the model to actively manipulate images through Python code execution during reasoning. In the Thinking-with-Images mode, the model generates and executes image-processing code in a sandbox environment, obtains intermediate visual results, and continues reasoning in a multi-turn iterative manner. This design is particularly effective for challenging scenarios such as high-resolution scientific chart interpretation, microscopic image understanding, and geometry-assisted reasoning. To construct the training data, we collect scientific multimodal datasets spanning six disciplines: mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, and biology. We further develop a six-dimensional quality filtering framework for reasoning trajectories. To mitigate redundant, ineffective, and erroneous visual operations commonly found in existing datasets, we propose a multi-stage filtering pipeline together with an adaptive data routing strategy. This strategy converts samples with low visual information gain into pure Reasoning-mode data, enabling the model to learn when image operations are truly necessary. S1-VL is trained through a four-stage progressive pipeline: scientific multimodal SFT, Thinking-with-Images cold-start SFT, and two stages of reinforcement learning with SAPO. We build S1-VL-32B on top of Qwen3-VL-32B-Thinking and evaluate it on 13 benchmarks. Experimental results show that S1-VL-32B achieves state-of-the-art performance on all five Thinking-with-Images benchmarks, including HRBench-4K, HRBench-8K, MME-RealWorld-CN, MME-RealWorld-Lite, and V*, and outperforms compared systems on scientific reasoning benchmarks such as Physics and VRSBench.
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