3 papers
cs.CY2026
Do VLMs Have a Moral Backbone? A Study on the Fragile Morality of Vision-Language Models
Zhining Liu, Tianyi Wang, Xiao Lin +9
Despite substantial efforts toward improving the moral alignment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), it remains unclear whether their ethical judgments are stable in realistic settin…
cs.AI2026
Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models
Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu +26
Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilitie…
cs.CV2025
MORALISE: A Structured Benchmark for Moral Alignment in Visual Language Models
Xiao Lin, Zhining Liu, Ze Yang +10
Warning: This paper contains examples of harmful language and images. Reader discretion is advised. Recently, vision-language models have demonstrated increasing influence in moral…