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20242026
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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Scale Can't Overcome Pragmatics: The Impact of Reporting Bias on Vision-Language Reasoning

Amita Kamath, Jack Hessel, Khyathi Chandu +3

The lack of reasoning capabilities in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has remained at the forefront of research discourse. We posit that this behavior stems from a reporting bias in…

cs.CV2026

Unified Text-Image Generation with Weakness-Targeted Post-Training

Jiahui Chen, Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Xiaochuang Han +7

Unified multimodal generation architectures that jointly produce text and images have recently emerged as a promising direction for text-to-image (T2I) synthesis. However, many exi…

cs.CV2025

GenEval 2: Addressing Benchmark Drift in Text-to-Image Evaluation

Amita Kamath, Kai-Wei Chang, Ranjay Krishna +3

Automating Text-to-Image (T2I) model evaluation is challenging; a judge model must be used to score correctness, and test prompts must be selected to be challenging for current T2I…

cs.CV2025

Visual Representations inside the Language Model

Benlin Liu, Amita Kamath, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin +2

Despite interpretability work analyzing VIT encoders and transformer activations, we don't yet understand why Multimodal Language Models (MLMs) struggle on perception-heavy tasks.…

cs.CL2024

The Hard Positive Truth about Vision-Language Compositionality

Amita Kamath, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Kai-Wei Chang +1

Several benchmarks have concluded that our best vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) are lacking in compositionality. Given an image, these benchmarks probe a model's ability to ide…

cs.CV2024

Matryoshka Query Transformer for Large Vision-Language Models

Wenbo Hu, Zi-Yi Dou, Liunian Harold Li +3

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically encode an image into a fixed number of visual tokens (e.g., 576) and process these tokens with a language model. Despite their strong…