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PRISM: Perception Reasoning Interleaved for Sequential Decision Making

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PRISM couples vision-language models (VLM) and large language models (LLM) via a dynamic question-answer pipeline to bridge the perception-reasoning-decision gap, outperforming state-of-the-art on ALFWorld and R2R benchmarks with full automation.

SourcearXiv AIAuthor: Mohamed Salim Aissi, Clemence Grislain, Clement Romac, Laure Soulier, Mohamed Chetouani, Olivier Sigaud, Nicolas Thome
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[Submitted on 6 May 2026]

Title:PRISM: Perception Reasoning Interleaved for Sequential Decision Making

Authors:Mohamed Salim Aissi, Clemence Grislain, Clement Romac, Laure Soulier, Mohamed Chetouani, Olivier Sigaud, Nicolas Thome

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Abstract:Scaling LLM-based embodied agents from text-only environments to complex multimodal settings remains a major challenge. Recent work identifies a perception-reasoning-decision gap in standalone Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which often overlook task-critical information. In this paper, we introduce PRISM, a framework that tightly couples perception (VLM) and decision (LLM) through a dynamic question-answer (DQA) pipeline. Instead of passively accepting the VLM's description, the LLM critiques it, probes the VLM with goal-oriented questions, and synthesizes a compact image description. This closed-loop interaction yields a sharp, task-driven understanding of the scene. We evaluate PRISM on the ALFWorld and Room-to-Room (R2R) benchmarks. We show that: (1) PRISM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art image-based models, (2) our Interactive goal-oriented perception pipeline yields systematic and substantial gains, and (3) PRISM is fully automatic, eliminating the need for handcrafted questions or answers.

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.05407

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From: Mohamed Salim Aissi [view email] [v1] Wed, 6 May 2026 19:55:50 UTC (7,074 KB)

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  • PRISM uses a dynamic question-answer pipeline for closed-loop interaction between VLM and LLM.
  • Outperforms prior image-based models on ALFWorld and Room-to-Room benchmarks.
  • Fully automatic, eliminating the need for handcrafted questions or answers.

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