Study: Skipping Images for Tool Calls Improves Visual Reasoning
kwangmoo_yi · x · 2026-08-14
Discusses the paper "Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels" by Shao et al. The research reveals that skipping actual image processing and relying solely on tool calls as text scaffolds results in little-to-no performance drop, and can even increase performance in visual reasoning tasks.
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