arXiv:2609.12575v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ambiguity is often treated as a bug for AI systems to resolve---but in human communication and culture, ambiguity can also be a generative resource. Fr...
By Cody Kommers, Mingrui Ye, Evelyn Gius, Daniela Mihai, Hoyt Long, Zheng Yuan, Drew Hemment
The paper investigates how multimodal large language models (MLLMs) handle conflicting evidence presented in text, image, or both forms. Across 13 MLLMs and two datasets, the authors find that models are not robust to knowledge conflict: they tend to accept contradictory image evidence more readily than contradictory text, and when both modalities conflict the preference is arbitrary, depending on input order, model, and dataset. The instability degrades multimodal retrieval-augmented generation and can be exploited by adversarial attacks, while simple mitigation techniques such as prompting, steering, and direct preference optimization largely fail, with supervised fine‑tuning offering only moderate improvement.
By Jungyeon Lee, Yejin Yoon, Taeuk Kim
arXiv:2603. 04419v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We characterize the phenomenon of context-dependent affordance computation in vision-language models (VLMs).
By Murad Farzulla
arXiv:2609.22206v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, yet understanding and quantify...
By Soroush Seifi, Vaggelis Dorovatas, Lin Li, Yarin Gal, Rahaf Aljundi
arXiv:2609.00293v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate how vision-language models (VLMs) handle context-memory conflicts; that is, situations in which the model is given information in contex...
By Athulith Paraselli, Etha Tianze Hua, Ellie Pavlick
arXiv:2609.07474v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Language models compute over tokens: language is their input, their output, and increasingly their internal representation. Whether language should...
By Peng Xie, Amr Alanwar