Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-based benchmarks and increasingly focused on text-rich understanding, but their robustness under controlled visual degradation remains insufficiently understood. This gap is critical for OCR reasoning, where visual corruption can induce OCR errors and structural distortions, thereby introducing uncertainty into the reasoning task.
arXiv:2606. 08063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in visual understanding, yet their performance degrades significantly under real-world visual corruptions.
By Jiaqi Tang, Jianmin Chen, Youyang Zhai, Wei Wei, Runtao Liu, Mengjie Zhao, Xiangyu Wu, Qingfa Xiao, Qifeng Chen
arXiv:2608.29374v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tool-augmented multimodal reasoning integrates external tools (e.g., object detection, depth estimation) into multimodal large language models (MLLMs)...
By Yu Cheng, Arushi Goel, Hakan Bilen
arXiv:2609.00232v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-centric document understanding and text-rich visual reasoning benchmar...
By Yue Zhou, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang
arXiv:2606.03401v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Scientific images function as critical evidence in research communication, yet their integrity faces unprecedented threats from AI-generated conten...
By WenZhe Li, Qihang Yan, Liang Chen, Junying Wang, Farong Wen, Yijin Guo, Chunyi Li, Zicheng Zhang, Guangtao Zhai
arXiv:2610.32360v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) process images and text jointly, yet robustness evaluations often perturb these inputs separately or assess only predefin...
By Oliver Wei{\ss}l, Eduardo Breitembach, Andrea Stocco
LADBench is a new benchmark comprising over 1,000 synthetic images that contain logical anomalies across four domains—Residential, Urban, Collaborative, and Nature. It introduces a Tiered Prompting Protocol that progressively discloses information to test how much explicit help a model needs to locate and reason about these faults. Evaluation of leading foundation models shows that even the best only reaches 70.11% accuracy, indicating that implicit logical fault detection remains largely unsolved.
By Sahasra Kondapalli, Lara Radovanovic, Aadi Palnitkar, Mingyang Mao, Xiaomin Lin
The paper evaluates five vision‑language models on autonomous driving tasks under various visual input conditions, finding that visual corruption affects accuracy and confidence differently across models and datasets. It then tests Visual Evidence Augmentation (VEA) as an inference‑time technique to enhance reliability, observing mixed improvements depending on the model and setting.
By Manasa Mariam Mammen, Priyanka Mary Mammen, Zafer Kayatas, Stefan Wagner
arXiv:2603. 23867v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been applied to a wide range of reasoning tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they can reason robustly under distribution shifts.
By Weixin Chen, Antonio Vergari, Han Zhao
arXiv:2602.06652v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The robustness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) is commonly assessed through output-level invariance, implicitly assuming that stable predictions r...
By Farooq Ahmad Wani, Alessandro Suglia, Rohit Saxena, Aryo Pradipta Gema, Wai-Chung Kwan, Fazl Barez, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Fabrizio Silvestri, Pasquale Minervini
arXiv:2608. 13267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks emphasize perception and reasoning accuracy (how well VLMs describe and reason about what they see in an image), with limited attention to behavioral reliability under uncertainty (how they behave when visual evidence is missing or misleading).
By Paul Osemudiame Oamen, Owusu-Banahene Osei, Ananya Mukherjee, Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger, Pius Onobhayedo, Wei Zhao
The paper presents a systematic study of scientific image synthesis, comparing pixel‑based generation and programmatic approaches. It introduces ImgCoder, a logic‑driven framework that follows an "understand‑plan‑code" workflow to enhance structural precision, and SciGenBench, a benchmark that evaluates images for information utility and logical validity. The authors find that pixel‑based models exhibit systematic failure modes and that fine‑tuning large multimodal models on rigorously verified synthetic images consistently improves downstream reasoning performance.
By Honglin Lin, Zheng Liu, Chonghan Qin, Qizhi Pei, Yu Li, Zhanping Zhong, Xin Gao, Yanfeng Wang, Conghui He, Lijun Wu