MG-Thinker: Bi-Axial Self-Reflection for Multi-Image Reasoning Grounding

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Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently delivered substantial gains in multimodal reasoning, opening a promising route for fine-grained visual perception. Yet for multi-image reasoning grounding (MRG), reasoning over real-world multi-image contexts toward pixel-precise localization, existing RL-based approaches overlook two characteristics intrinsic to this paradigm: a coarse-to-fine hierarchical reasoning pattern, and heterogeneously distributed task--sample difficulties. In this work, we present MG-Thinker, a post-training RL framework that advances a new MRG paradigm featuring such hierarchical reasoning, supported by a curated 25K MRG dataset with task-adaptive Chain-of-Thought (CoT) annotations that elicit multi-perspective evidence before conclusion. To remedy the heterogeneous task--sample difficulties, we further propose Bi-Axial DAPO (BiA-DAPO), which decomposes rollout advantages along an intra-group signal axis and an inter-group competence axis through two complementary mechanisms, both grounded on our defined candidate pool for stable group-level statistics. Extensive experiments show that MG-Thinker achieves state-of-the-art performance on multi-image reasoning grounding while consistently improving generalization across multi-image understanding and diverse multimodal benchmarks.