3 papers
cs.CL2026
Humans vs Vision-Language Models: A Unified Measure of Narrative Coherence
Nikolai Ilinykh, Hyewon Jang, Shalom Lappin +2
We study narrative coherence in visually grounded stories by comparing human-written narratives with those generated by vision-language models (VLMs) on the Visual Writing Prompts…
cs.CL2025
Coreference as an indicator of context scope in multimodal narrative
Nikolai Ilinykh, Shalom Lappin, Asad Sayeed +1
We demonstrate that large multimodal language models differ substantially from humans in the distribution of coreferential expressions in a visual storytelling task. We introduce a…
cs.CL2024
A surprisal oracle for when every layer counts
Xudong Hong, Sharid Loáiciga, Asad Sayeed
Active Curriculum Language Modeling (ACLM; Hong et al., 2023) is a learner directed approach to training a language model. We proposed the original version of this process in our s…