3 papers
cs.CV2026
RAVENEA: A Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Visual Culture Understanding
Jiaang Li, Yifei Yuan, Wenyan Li +8
As vision-language models (VLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, the need for accurate visual culture understanding is becoming critical. Yet, these models frequent…
cs.AI2025
What if Othello-Playing Language Models Could See?
Xinyi Chen, Yifei Yuan, Jiaang Li +3
Language models are often said to face a symbol grounding problem. While some have argued the problem can be solved without resort to other modalities, many have speculated that gr…
cs.CV2025
Lost in Embeddings: Information Loss in Vision-Language Models
Wenyan Li, Raphael Tang, Chengzu Li +3
Vision--language models (VLMs) often process visual inputs through a pretrained vision encoder, followed by a projection into the language model's embedding space via a connector c…