The study compares human and vision‑language model (VLM) responses to cross‑modal association tasks, using identical stimuli (a pseudo‑word and two images) and recording both choices and eye movements. While larger VLMs show some alignment with human choices, their attention patterns correlate poorly with human gaze, performing no better than a simple center‑bias baseline. Fine‑tuning VLMs on human choices improves choice alignment but not attention alignment, and training on human gaze improves attention correlation without affecting choice accuracy.
By Sumin Hong, Katsumi Ibaraki, Renee Shi, David Chiang, Toby Jia-Jun Li
arXiv:2609.05517v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Human observers prioritize visual information according to task goals. Most computational models of naturalistic viewing are gaze-trained for free vi...
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arXiv:2606. 17389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Foundation Models are increasingly used as reasoning agents, making reliability, knowing when a model may hallucinate, critical.
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By Jiarui Zhang, Muzi Tao, Shangshang Wang, Ollie Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Willie Neiswanger