3 papers
cs.CL2026
Real Images, Worse Judgments: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Concreteness and Imagery
Yifan Jiang, Ruoxi Ning, Sheng Yao +1
Visual inputs are often assumed to improve language understanding in multimodal models. We examine this assumption by asking whether vision-language models (VLMs) can distinguish u…
cs.CL2026
Chartographer: Counterfactual Chart Generation for Evaluating Vision-Language Models
Yifan Jiang, Dae Yon Hwang, Jesse C. Cresswell +1
Chart question-answering (QA) benchmarks aim to pose questions that require visual reasoning to correctly answer, but models can often reach solutions through shortcuts or prior fa…
cs.LG2025
Error-controlled non-additive interaction discovery in machine learning models
Winston Chen, Yifan Jiang, William Stafford Noble +1
Machine learning (ML) models are powerful tools for detecting complex patterns within data, yet their "black box" nature limits their interpretability, hindering their use in criti…