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5 papers

cs.AI2026

Vision Language Models Cannot Reason About Physical Transformation

Dezhi Luo, Yijiang Li, Maijunxian Wang +7

Understanding physical transformations is fundamental for reasoning in dynamic environments. While Vision Language Models (VLMs) show promise in embodied applications, whether they…

cs.CV2026

Vision-Language Models Mistake Head Orientation for Gaze Direction: Nonverbal Conversation Cues

Zory Zhang, Pinyuan Feng, Bingyang Wang +7

Where someone looks is a nonverbal communication cue that children and adults readily use. How well can Vision-Language Models (VLMs) infer gaze targets? To construct evaluation st…

cs.CV2026

Towards Interpretable Visual Decoding with Attention to Brain Representations

Pinyuan Feng, Hossein Adeli, Wenxuan Guo +3

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents…

cs.CL2025

TACO: Enhancing Multimodal In-context Learning via Task Mapping-Guided Sequence Configuration

Yanshu Li, Jianjiang Yang, Tian Yun +3

Multimodal in-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a key mechanism for harnessing the capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, its effectiveness remains high…

q-bio.NC2025

Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology

Drew Linsley, Pinyuan Feng, Thomas Serre

Deep neural networks (DNNs) once showed increasing alignment with primate perception and neural responses as they improved on vision benchmarks, raising hopes that advances in AI w…