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7 papers

cs.AI2026

Robust Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Oral Cancer Screening

Siddhant Bharadwaj, Aakash Shedsale, Tejashree Subramanya +6

Oral cancer is a leading cause of mortality in low-to-middle-income countries, where a shortage of specialists delays diagnosis. While point-of-care screening via smartphones offer…

cs.CV2026

Do Medical Vision Language Models Actually See? A Counterfactual Grounding Framework and Hard-Negative Contrastive Training for Visually-Reliant Medical VLMs

Anas Zafar, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +2

Large vision language models (VLMs) report strong accuracy on medical question-answering, yet it remains unclear whether they reason from visual evidence or exploit textual shortcu…

cs.CL2026

Medmarks: A Comprehensive Open-Source LLM Benchmark Suite for Medical Tasks

Benjamin Warner, Ratna Sagari Grandhi, Max Kieffer +32

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for medical applications remains challenging due to benchmark saturation, limited data accessibility, and insufficient coverage of relevant…

cs.CV2026

Where Do Vision-Language Models Fail? World Scale Analysis for Image Geolocalization

Siddhant Bharadwaj, Ashish Vashist, Fahimul Aleem +1

Image geolocalization has traditionally been addressed through retrieval-based place recognition or geometry-based visual localization pipelines. Recent advances in Vision-Language…

cs.CV2026

Spatial Reasoning is Not a Free Lunch: A Controlled Study on LLaVA

Nahid Alam, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +7

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet they still struggle with basic spatial reasoning. Despite strong performance on general benchmarks, modern VLMs remain brit…

cs.CV2026

The Spatial Blindspot of Vision-Language Models

Nahid Alam, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +7

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their ability to capture spatial relationships remains a blindspot. Current VLMs are typically built with contrastive langu…