3 papers
cs.CV2026
SPELUNKA: A Framework for Finding Unanticipated Associations in Vision-Language Models
Cassandra Parent, Isha Agarwal, Kumail Alhamoud +4
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are the backbone of many state-of-the-art multimodal systems, but often encode spurious and harmful associations from their training data. While prior…
cs.LG2026
Croissant Baker: Metadata Generation for Discoverable, Governable, and Reusable ML Datasets
Rafi Al Attrach, Rajna Fani, Sebastian Lobentanzer +17
Croissant has emerged as the metadata standard for machine learning datasets, providing a structured, JSON-LD-based format that makes dataset discovery, automated ingestion, and re…
cs.CV2025
SpaceVLM: Sub-Space Modeling of Negation in Vision-Language Models
Sepehr Kazemi Ranjbar, Kumail Alhamoud, Marzyeh Ghassemi
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle with negation. Given a prompt like "retrieve (or generate) a street scene without pedestrians," they often fail to respect the "not." Existin…