Soham Daga
Computer science
Hometown: Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
Graduation date: Spring 2027
FURI | Fall 2026, Needs Review
Reasoning by Sight: Can Pictures Replace Tokens?
Most AI models read a problem as tokens, short pieces of text. Recent work showed a vision model can instead solve visual puzzles as pictures. This research asks whether that idea can grow into a foundation model for reasoning: one vision model that handles many kinds of puzzles, learns new kinds from a few examples, and improves with size. The researcher trains small vision models on puzzles from math, logic, algorithms, patterns and games, each shown as a picture, with a matching token version as a reference. The goal is one model that can read any problem as a picture.
Mentor: Huan Liu