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18 papers

cs.CL2026

Social Caption: Evaluating Social Understanding in Multimodal Models

Leena Mathur, Bhaavanaa Thumu, Youssouf Kebe +1

Social understanding abilities are crucial for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interpret human social interactions. We introduce SOCIAL CAPTION, a framework grounded in…

cs.HC2026

Social Human Robot Embodied Conversation (SHREC) Dataset: Benchmarking Foundational Models' Social Reasoning

Dong Won Lee, Yubin Kim, Denison Guvenoz +5

Our work focuses on the social reasoning capabilities of foundation models for real-world human-robot interactions. We introduce the Social Human Robot Embodied Conversation (SHREC…

cs.CV2026

Video Active Perception: Effective Inference-Time Long-Form Video Understanding with Vision-Language Models

Martin Q. Ma, Willis Guo, Aditya Agrawal +4

Large vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced multimodal tasks such as video question answering (QA). However, VLMs face the challenge of selecting frames effectively and effic…

cs.CV2026

Act2See: Emergent Active Visual Perception for Video Reasoning

Martin Q. Ma, Yuxiao Qu, Aditya Agrawal +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) typically rely on static initial frames for video reasoning, restricting their ability to incorporate essential dynamic information as the reasoning p…

cs.HC2026

LLAMADRS: Evaluating Open-Source LLMs on Real Clinical Interviews--To Reason or Not to Reason?

Gaoussou Youssouf Kebe, Jeffrey M. Girard, Einat Liebenthal +3

Large language models (LLMs) excel on many NLP benchmarks, but their behavior on real-world, semi-structured prediction remains underexplored. We present LlaMADRS, a benchmark for…

cs.LG2026

Omitted Variable Bias in Language Models Under Distribution Shift

Victoria Lin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Eli Ben-Michael

Despite their impressive performance on a wide variety of tasks, modern language models remain susceptible to distribution shifts, exhibiting brittle behavior when evaluated on dat…