{
  "id": "2610.13527",
  "title": "S-Space: Exploring Spatial Workspace in Multimodal Language Models",
  "authors": "Zhiyuan Shi, Xiang Li, Xingzhuo Guo, Shangchen Miao, Weiliang Chen, Qiyu Dai, Jinshan Ren, Jiangran Lyu, Fangfu Liu, Mingsheng Long, Jialong Wu",
  "first_public": "2026-10-09",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.13527",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13527",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state",
    "multimodal-latent"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "interpretability",
    "evaluation",
    "limitations"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "mechanistic",
    "probing"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "multimodal",
    "vision"
  ],
  "summary": "Identifies spatial-coordinate directions in multimodal model activations and tests them through causal interventions. Separating perception from viewpoint transformation reveals cases where a model represents object locations but fails to perform the required spatial computation.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Zhiyuan Shi",
    "Xiang Li",
    "Xingzhuo Guo",
    "Shangchen Miao",
    "Weiliang Chen",
    "Qiyu Dai",
    "Jinshan Ren",
    "Jiangran Lyu",
    "Fangfu Liu",
    "Mingsheng Long",
    "Jialong Wu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-10-09",
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  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.13527/citation.bib",
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