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11 papers

cs.CV2026

Attention-Guided Saliency Maps for Interpreting Visualization Literacy in VLMs

Maeve Hutchinson, Abderrahmane Wassim Mehdaoui, Pranava Madhyastha

Understanding how vision-language models (VLMs) interpret data visualizations remains an open problem, and is increasingly important as these models are used for analytical tasks w…

cs.AI2026

DecompSR: A dataset for decomposed analyses of compositional multihop spatial reasoning

Lachlan McPheat, Navdeep Kaur, Robert Blackwell +3

We introduce DecompSR, decomposed spatial reasoning, a large benchmark dataset (over 5m datapoints) and generation framework designed to analyse compositional spatial reasoning abi…

cs.CL2026

A Cognitively Grounded Bayesian Framework for Misinformation Susceptibility

Pranava Madhyastha

In this (work in progress) paper, we present Bounded Pragmatic Listener (or BPL), a cognitively grounded Bayesian framework for modelling susceptibility to information disorder. BP…

cs.CL2026

Working Memory Constraints Scaffold Learning in Transformers under Data Scarcity

Pranava Madhyastha, Dagmar Adamcova

We investigate the integration of human-like working memory constraints into the Transformer architecture and implement several cognitively inspired attention variants, including f…

cs.CL2026

Learning and Enforcing Context-Sensitive Control for LLMs

Mohammad Albinhassan, Pranava Madhyastha, Mark Law +1

Controlling the output of Large Language Models (LLMs) through context-sensitive constraints has emerged as a promising approach to overcome the limitations of Context-Free Grammar…

cs.CL2026

: Semantically Controlled Decoding

Mohammad Albinhassan, Pranava Madhyastha, Alessandra Russo

Ensuring both syntactic and semantic correctness in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs remains a significant challenge, despite being critical for real-world deployment. In this pa…