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9 papers

cs.CV2026

ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models

Jonathan Roberts, Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Ansh Sharma +31

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit shortfalls when interpreting images and, by some measures, have poorer spatial cognition than young children or animals. Despite this, they a…

cs.CL2026

HoT: Highlighted Chain of Thought for Referencing Supporting Facts from Inputs

Tin Nguyen, Logan Bolton, Mohammad Reza Taesiri +2

An Achilles heel of Large Language Models (LLMs) is their tendency to hallucinate non-factual statements. A response mixed of factual and non-factual statements poses a challenge f…

cs.CV2026

SketchVLM: Vision language models can annotate images to explain thoughts and guide users

Brandon Collins, Logan Bolton, Hung Huy Nguyen +3

When answering questions about images, humans naturally point, label, and draw to explain their reasoning. In contrast, modern vision-language models (VLMs) such as Gemini-3-Pro an…

cs.LG2026

Vision Language Models are Biased

An Vo, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen, Mohammad Reza Taesiri +3

Large language models (LLMs) memorize a vast amount of prior knowledge from the Internet that helps them on downstream tasks but also may notoriously sway their outputs towards wro…

cs.CV2025

VideoGameQA-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Video Game Quality Assurance

Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Abhijay Ghildyal, Saman Zadtootaghaj +2

With video games now generating the highest revenues in the entertainment industry, optimizing game development workflows has become essential for the sector's sustained growth. Re…

cs.CV2025

A Survey on Long-Video Storytelling Generation: Architectures, Consistency, and Cinematic Quality

Mohamed Elmoghany, Ryan Rossi, Seunghyun Yoon +26

Despite the significant progress that has been made in video generative models, existing state-of-the-art methods can only produce videos lasting 5-16 seconds, often labeled "long-…