MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning

Published in The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), 2026

Recommended citation: Weikang Shi, Aldrich Yu, Rongyao Fang, Houxing Ren, Ke Wang, Aojun Zhou, Changyao Tian, Xinyu Fu, Yuxuan Hu, Zimu Lu, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu, Rui Liu†, Hongsheng Li (2026). "MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning." ACL 2026. https://mathcanvas.github.io/

We present MathCanvas, the first unified multi-model that enables thinking while drawing auxiliary lines for multimodal mathematical reasoning.

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Recommended citation: Weikang Shi, Aldrich Yu, Rongyao Fang, Houxing Ren, Ke Wang, Aojun Zhou, Changyao Tian, Xinyu Fu, Yuxuan Hu, Zimu Lu, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu, Rui Liu†, Hongsheng Li (2026). “MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning.” ACL 2026.