arXiv AI By Logan Mann, Yi Xia, Ajit Saravanan, Ishan Dave, Saadullah Ismail, Shikhar Shiromani, Emily Huang, Ruizhe Li, Kevin Zhu

Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models

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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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