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5 papers

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

Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Visual Grounding In Multimodal Medical Reasoning

Anas Zafar, Leema Krishna Murali, Ashish Vashist

Recent work shows that text-only reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can match or outperform image-text RLVR on multimodal medical VQA benchmarks, suggesting curr…

cs.CV2025

FOD-S2R: A FOD Dataset for Sim2Real Transfer Learning based Object Detection

Ashish Vashist, Qiranul Saadiyean, Suresh Sundaram +1

Foreign Object Debris (FOD) within aircraft fuel tanks presents critical safety hazards including fuel contamination, system malfunctions, and increased maintenance costs. Despite…