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6 papers

cs.CV2026

HumaniBench: A Human-Centric Framework for Large Multimodal Models Evaluation

Shaina Raza, Aravind Narayanan, Vahid Reza Khazaie +6

Although recent large multimodal models (LMMs) show impressive progress on vision language tasks, their alignment with human centered (HC) principles such as fairness, ethics, incl…

cs.AI2026

AgentFinVQA: A Deployable Multi-Agent Pipeline for Auditable Financial Chart QA

Aravind Narayanan, Shaina Raza

Financial chart question answering in regulated settings demands more than accuracy: practitioners must know which answers to trust before acting on them, and many institutions can…

cs.AI2026

From Features to Actions: Explainability in Traditional and Agentic AI Systems

Sindhuja Chaduvula, Jessee Ho, Kina Kim +6

Over the last decade, Explainable AI has primarily focused on interpreting individual model predictions, producing post-hoc explanations that relate inputs to outputs under a fixed…

cs.CL2025

VLDBench Evaluating Multimodal Disinformation with Regulatory Alignment

Shaina Raza, Ashmal Vayani, Aditya Jain +8

Detecting disinformation that blends manipulated text and images has become increasingly challenging, as AI tools make synthetic content easy to generate and disseminate. While mos…

cs.CV2025

Bias in the Picture: Benchmarking VLMs with Social-Cue News Images and LLM-as-Judge Assessment

Aravind Narayanan, Vahid Reza Khazaie, Shaina Raza

Large vision-language models (VLMs) can jointly interpret images and text, but they are also prone to absorbing and reproducing harmful social stereotypes when visual cues such as…

cs.CV2025

LinguaMark: Do Multimodal Models Speak Fairly? A Benchmark-Based Evaluation

Ananya Raval, Aravind Narayanan, Vahid Reza Khazaie +1

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are typically trained on vast corpora of image-text data but are often limited in linguistic coverage, leading to biased and unfair outputs across la…