# CST-Bench: Benchmarking Counterfactual Spatial Transition Reasoning with Causal Transition On-Policy Self-Distillation

**Published:** November 6, 2026
**Author:** Ying Li, Yongle Cheng, Jing Li, Xingquan Cai, Yawei Luo
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2611.07541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet existing benchmarks mainly focus on static scene understanding. When objects are moved or swapped, models must infer not only spatial…

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