3 papers
cs.CL2026
LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure
Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral +4
Modern language models are trained on heterogeneous web-scale text corpora. Consequently, studying knowledge and skill acquisition is difficult, as prior exposure to related conten…
cs.AI2026
MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery
Jana Zeller, Thaddäus Wiedemer, Fanfei Li +6
Frontier models are transitioning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that merely ingest visual information to unified multimodal models (UMMs) capable of native interlea…
cs.CV2026
LAION-C: An Out-of-Distribution Benchmark for Web-Scale Vision Models
Fanfei Li, Thomas Klein, Wieland Brendel +2
Out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness is a desired property of computer vision models. Improving model robustness requires high-quality signals from robustness benchmarks to quantif…