2 papers
cs.CV2026
Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models
Logan Mann, Yi Xia, Ajit Saravanan +6
Multimodal Foundation Models are increasingly used as reasoning agents, making reliability, knowing when a model may hallucinate, critical. A common intuition, which we call the At…
cs.AI2026
Where Reliability Lives in Vision-Language Models: A Mechanistic Study of Attention, Hidden States, and Causal Circuits
Logan Mann, Ajit Saravanan, Ishan Dave +4
A pervasive intuition holds that vision-language models (VLMs) are most trustworthy when their attention maps look sharp: concentrated attention on the queried region should imply…