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most citedMore Thought, Less Accuracy? On the Dual Nature of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

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9 papers

cs.CV2026

Break the Brake, Not the Wheel: Untargeted Jailbreak via Entropy Maximization

Mengqi He, Xinyu Tian, Xin Shen +6

Recent studies show that gradient-based universal image jailbreaks on vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit little or no cross-model transferability, casting doubt on the feasibili…

cs.CV2026

All Roads Lead to Rome: Incentivizing Divergent Thinking in Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +3

Recent studies have demonstrated that Reinforcement Learning (RL), notably Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), can intrinsically elicit and enhance the reasoning capabilitie…

cs.CV2025

High-Entropy Tokens as Multimodal Failure Points in Vision-Language Models

Mengqi He, Xinyu Tian, Xin Shen +4

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve remarkable performance but remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Entropy, as a measure of model uncertainty, is highly correlated with VLM…

cs.CV2025

Unlocking Vision-Language Models for Video Anomaly Detection via Fine-Grained Prompting

Shu Zou, Xinyu Tian, Lukas Wesemann +3

Prompting has emerged as a practical way to adapt frozen vision-language models (VLMs) for video anomaly detection (VAD). Yet, existing prompts are often overly abstract, overlooki…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

More Thought, Less Accuracy? On the Dual Nature of Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +5

Reasoning has emerged as a pivotal capability in Large Language Models (LLMs). Through Reinforcement Learning (RL), typically Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), these model…

cs.CV2025

Identifying and Mitigating Position Bias of Multi-image Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +1

The evolution of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has progressed from single to multi-image reasoning. Despite this advancement, our findings indicate that LVLMs struggle to ro…

cs.LG2025

Black Sheep in the Herd: Playing with Spuriously Correlated Attributes for Vision-Language Recognition

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +2

Few-shot adaptation for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) presents a dilemma: balancing in-distribution accuracy with out-of-distribution generalization. Recent research has utilized l…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

SimLabel: Consistency-Guided OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models

Shu Zou, Xinyu Tian, Qinyu Zhao +2

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is crucial in real-world machine learning applications, particularly in safety-critical domains. Existing methods often leverage language i…

cs.CV2023

ArGue: Attribute-Guided Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models

Xinyu Tian, Shu Zou, Zhaoyuan Yang +1

Although soft prompt tuning is effective in efficiently adapting Vision-Language (V&L) models for downstream tasks, it shows limitations in dealing with distribution shifts. We add…