TDDN: Text-aligned Diffused DINO Network for Puzzle Understanding
arXiv:2609.07937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structured visual reasoning, such as image puzzles, demands fine-grained visual perception, which current Vision Language Models (VLMs) often lack. VLMs built on CLIP-based ViT backbones tend to trade fine-grained visual details for high-level semantics. We show that this deficit propagates downstream, affecting various vision and language tasks. To address this, we fuse DINOv3 and CleanDIFT representations into a perception encoder (Dif…