3 papers
cs.LG2026
Understanding Decision-Making Mechanisms in Neural Routing Solvers
Fatemeh Askari, Mazdak Teymourian, Mohammad Izadi +1
Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) has achieved strong empirical success, yet the internal mechanisms driving model decisions remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we inve…
cs.CV2025
Understanding Counting Mechanisms in Large Language and Vision-Language Models
Hosein Hasani, Amirmohammad Izadi, Fatemeh Askari +4
Counting is one of the fundamental abilities of large language models (LLMs) and large vision-language models (LVLMs). This paper examines how these foundation models represent and…
cs.CV2025
Uncovering Grounding IDs: How External Cues Shape Multi-Modal Binding
Hosein Hasani, Amirmohammad Izadi, Fatemeh Askari +4
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) perform well on multimodal tasks, but their ability to reason and precisely align visual and textual information still has room for improvement…