DDCoT: Duty-Distinct Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Multimodal Reasoning in Language Models Ge Zheng 1 Bin Y ang 1 Jiajin T ang 1 Hong-Y u Zhou 2

Feb-7-2026, 23:15:44 GMT–Neural Information Processing Systems 

As shown in Figure 1(d) and (e), basic science questions that are out-of-distribution pose a challenge for these models.