Sketching as a Visual Chain of Thought
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Paper summary
a framework that enables a multimodal LLM to access a visual sketchpad and tools to draw on the sketchpad; it can equip a model like GPT-4 with the capability to generate intermediate sketches to reason over complex tasks; improves performance on many tasks over strong base models with no sketching; GPT-4o equipped with SketchPad sets a new state of the art on all the tasks tested.