3 papers
cs.HC2026
TRACE: Transparent Retrieval for Abstract Concept Evaluation
Joseph Bingham
Recent work reports that vision--language models (VLMs) struggle to establish and maintain stable reference in repeated reference games. Rather than ask which VLM does best, we ask…
cs.HC2026
A Dynamic-Semantics Framework for Grounding Human Referring Expressions in Visual Perceptual Data
Joseph Bingham
Humans converge on shared names for novel, hard-to-describe objects through repeated interaction, a process psycholinguists call lexical entrainment. Leading vision-language models…
cs.AI2026
A Multimodal Framework for Aligning Human Linguistic Descriptions with Visual Perceptual Data
Joseph Bingham
Establishing stable mappings between natural language expressions and visual percepts is a foundational problem for both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Humans routi…