arXiv AI By Jiawei Liang, Jianjie Huang, Ruoyu Chen, Xianghao Jiao, Siyuan Liang, Shiming Liu, Xiaochun Cao

Evidence Recomposition and Predictive Context Residualization for Visual Attribution in Multimodal Large Language Models

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arXiv:2509. 22415v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong vision-language performance, yet their token-level visual evidence remains difficult to inspect.

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