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Yuan Wang, Yongchao Du, Mengting Chen, Jinsong Lan, Xuetao Feng, Xiaoyong Zhu
Recent advances in multimodal generative models have enabled instruction-based image generation to move beyond semantic manipulation to knowledge-driven visual reasoning. However, these methods focus on explicit commonsense reasoning, shallow causal understanding, and direct knowledge recall, failing at knowledge-intensive generation. We develop \textbf{ExpertVerse}, a capability-centric benchmark to evaluate generative models via knowledge-intensive lens. ExpertVerse stratifies reasoning generation across an orthogonal taxonomy of \textit{9 cognitive capabilities} and \textit{8 expert disciplines}, yielding \textit{58 sub-disciplines}. We curate 1,611 expert-annotated instances covering single-image editing, multi-image composition, and text-to-image generation. We further develop an automated workflow to produce \textbf{ExpertVerse-100K}, a large-scale dataset with reasoning traces and knowledge-anchored rationale annotations. Based on this, we train \textbf{KnowThinker} with RL fine-tuning, a VLM reasoning engine with world knowledge that jointly generates thinking processes and refined instructions. Towards the cross-modal credit misalignment and multi-objective gradient conflicts in multi-reward optimization, we propose a tailored Bootstrapped Pareto Policy Optimization (BPPO), which synergizes Bootstrapping Reward Rectification (BRR) and Conflict-Aware Pareto Advantage Fusion (CPAF). Extensive results of both open-source and proprietary models exposes critical reasoning deficits, highlighting imperative for knowledge-intensive benchmarks towards next-generation visual generation.
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@article{wang2026expertverse,
title = {ExpertVerse: A General-Purpose Benchmark for Expert-Level Reasoning in Knowledge-Intensive Visual Synthesis},
author = {Yuan Wang and Yongchao Du and Mengting Chen and Jinsong Lan and Xuetao Feng and Xiaoyong Zhu},
year = {2026},
abstract = {Recent advances in multimodal generative models have enabled instruction-based image generation to move beyond semantic manipulation to knowledge-driven visual reasoning. However, these methods focus on explicit commonsense reasoning, shallow causal understanding, and direct knowledge recall, failing at knowledge-intensive generation. We develop \textbackslash{}textbf\{ExpertVerse\}, a capability-centric benchmark to evaluate generative models via knowledge-intensive lens. ExpertVerse stratifies reasoning genera},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19341},
keywords = {cs.CV},
eprint = {2607.19341},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
{}