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most citedWhat Do VLMs NOTICE? A Mechanistic Interpretability Pipeline for Gaussian-Noise-free Text-Image Corruption and Evaluation

2 citations · 3 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Vision-Default, Prior-Override: Causal Mechanisms of Perception-Knowledge Conflict in Vision-Language Models

Niclas Lietzow, Danielle Bitterman, Carsten Eickhoff +2

Vision-language models must reconcile visual evidence with memorized world knowledge when the two conflict. How they resolve this conflict shapes the reliability of multimodal syst…

cs.CV2026

Anchored, Not Graded: Vision-Language Models Fail at Slant-from-Texture Perception

Qian Zhang, Michal Golovanevsky, Fulvio Domini +1

Human perception of surface slant from texture exhibits systematic, graded biases that emerge reliably in psychophysical experiments. Prior work showed that unsupervised CNNs repro…

cs.CV2026

Is There Knowledge Left to Extract? Evidence of Fragility in Medically Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models

Oliver McLaughlin, Daniel Shubin, Carsten Eickhoff +3

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly adapted through domain-specific fine-tuning, yet it remains unclear whether this improves reasoning beyond superficial visual cues, p…

cs.CL2026

When to Call an Apple Red: Humans Follow Introspective Rules, VLMs Don't

Jonathan Nemitz, Carsten Eickhoff, Junyi Jessy Li +3

Understanding when Vision-Language Models (VLMs) will behave unexpectedly, whether models can reliably predict their own behavior, and if models adhere to their introspective reaso…

cs.CV2026

Mechanisms of Prompt-Induced Hallucination in Vision-Language Models

William Rudman, Michal Golovanevsky, Dana Arad +4

Large vision-language models (VLMs) are highly capable, yet often hallucinate by favoring textual prompts over visual evidence. We study this failure mode in a controlled object-co…

cs.LG2025

PiCME: Pipeline for Contrastive Modality Evaluation and Encoding in the MIMIC Dataset

Michal Golovanevsky, Pranav Mahableshwarkar, Carsten Eickhoff +1

Multimodal deep learning holds promise for improving clinical prediction by integrating diverse patient data, including text, imaging, time-series, and structured demographics. Con…

cs.CV2025

Pixels Versus Priors: Controlling Knowledge Priors in Vision-Language Models through Visual Counterfacts

Michal Golovanevsky, William Rudman, Michael Lepori +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well on tasks such as visual question answering, but it remains unclear whether their reasoning relies more on memorized world know…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

What Do VLMs NOTICE? A Mechanistic Interpretability Pipeline for Gaussian-Noise-free Text-Image Corruption and Evaluation

Michal Golovanevsky, William Rudman, Vedant Palit +2

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have gained community-spanning prominence due to their ability to integrate visual and textual inputs to perform complex tasks. Despite their success,…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

One-Versus-Others Attention: Scalable Multimodal Integration for Biomedical Data

Michal Golovanevsky, Eva Schiller, Akira Nair +3

Multimodal learning models have become increasingly important as they surpass single-modality approaches on diverse tasks ranging from question-answering to autonomous driving. Des…

cs.LG2022

Multimodal Attention-based Deep Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis

Michal Golovanevsky, Carsten Eickhoff, Ritambhara Singh

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder with one of the most complex pathogeneses, making effective and clinically actionable decision support diffic…