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PolyComp: A Polycube-based Benchmark for Compositional 3D Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Models

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We introduce PolyComp, a procedurally generated and verified benchmark that stresses visual recognition and compositional spatial reasoning. In each problem, a model must identify which of four options shows a pair of polycube components that can be combined to form a target solid. The benchmark contains 120 problems across four geometry families, and each problem has three different presentation formats using either a single image or multiple images. The random guessing baseline is 25%. Across the three presentations (360 presented problems per model), GPT-5.6 Sol with max effort attains 50.0% accuracy (95% problem-cluster CI 43.3-56.7%) at a mean cost of \$0.951 per presented problem, Claude Fable 5 with max effort attains 39.4% (33.1-46.1%) at \$0.701, and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview with thinking level high attains 27.5% (22.8-32.5%), near the 25% random guessing baseline, at \$0.350. The observed accuracy spread across geometry families is larger than across presentation formats. We present a problem development and evaluation protocol, cost and token accounting, and release the 120 problems.

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Siddharth Patel. 2026-08-27. PolyComp: A Polycube-based Benchmark for Compositional 3D Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14741

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