Counting in VLMs

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  1. Seeing vs. Counting: Complexity Twins Show Where Multimodal LLMs Fail on Diagrams

    Nov 6, 2026Yin LiuDiagram UnderstandingMLLM Evaluation

    Google

  2. How Finely Can Vision-Language Models See Biology? Bio-VQA: A Benchmark for Taxonomic, Morphological, Spatial and Individual Reasoning

    Nov 3, 2026S M Rayeed, Qian Ma, Charles V. Stewart +1VLM EvaluationCounting in VLMs

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  3. Where Do Vision Language Models Fail at 3D Reasoning?

    Oct 29, 2026Khai Le-Duc, Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, An Ngo +11Counting in VLMsReasoning for VLMs

  4. DecoyCount: Evaluating Visual-Reasoning Misalignment in Counting

    Oct 26, 2026Qiuyi, Zhang, Zhen Xu +14Visual CountingCounting in VLMs

    Richard · Elorian AI · Mercor

  5. CountVideoBench: A Benchmark to Evaluate Prediction Biases on the Object Counting task by Video-Language Models

    Oct 20, 2026Marc Chapus, Carlos Crispim-Junior, Véronique Eglin +1Counting in VLMsVisual Counting

    INSA Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LIRIS, UMR5205, 69621 Villeurbanne, France

  6. Give the Model a Finger: Developmentally Aligned Evaluation of Counting in Vision-Language Models

    Oct 20, 2026Yingxin Jia, Hui Geng, Wenxin Yang +1Counting in VLMsVision-Language Models

    Independent Researcher

  7. From Seeing to Reporting: A Theory of Reliable Visual Set Generation in Vision-Language Models

    Oct 18, 2026Junzhe Shi, Yuan Gan, Shida JiangCounting in VLMsVision-Language Models

    Systems Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA · Department of AI, Quotr AI, Emeryville, CA, USA

  8. RepProbe: Can Video Language Models Count Repeated Actions? A Diagnostic Benchmark

    Oct 13, 2026Mahsa Khoshnoodi, Sarah Adel BargalCounting in VLMsVideo-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University

  9. CrowdCue: Specialist-Cue Conditioning for Vision-Language Crowd Counting

    Sep 19, 2026Moshiur Farazi, Bekir Ciftler, Abdulhalim Dandoush +1Crowd CountingCounting in VLMs

    University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar

  10. NumerosityVLM: A Cognitively Inspired Benchmark for Interpreting Numerosity Representations in Vision-Language Models

    Aug 15, 2026Yiming Fu, Fangjun Li, Xiujin Liu +7Counting in VLMsVLM Evaluation

    Cognitive Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK · University of Michigan, MI 48109, USA · Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK +2

  11. The Count Is There, but Misaligned: Understanding and Correcting Counting Failures in VLMs

    Jul 10, 2026Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Abzal Nurgazy, Hilal AlQuabeh +2Vision-Language ModelsVLM Interpretability

    MBZUAI · Imperial College London

  12. Unveiling the Visual Counting Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models

    May 28, 2026Xingzhou Pang, Yifan Hou, Junling Wang +1VLM ReasoningVisual Counting

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

  13. CounterCount: Diagnosing Knowledge Bias in How Vision-Language Models Count Attributes

    May 18, 2026Reem Alzahrani, Bushra Bin Hemid, Hassan Alshanqiti +4VLM EvaluationVision-Language Models

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. · University of Edinburgh

  14. Count Anything at Any Granularity

    May 11, 2026Chang Liu, Haoning Wu, Weidi XieObject CountingMultimodal Large Language Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · CMIC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  15. PushupBench: Your VLM is not good at counting pushups

    Apr 25, 2026Shengzhi Li, Jiarun Chen, Karun Sharma +2Temporal Video UnderstandingVideo-Language Model Evaluation

  16. Counting to Four is still a Chore for VLMs

    Apr 11, 2026Duy Le Dinh Anh, Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Tuan Van VoCounting in VLMsAttention Intervention in VLMs

    MBZUAI

  17. Getting to the Point: Pointing Improves LVLMs at Counting

    Mar 23, 2026Simone Alghisi, Massimo Rizzoli, Seyed Mahed Mousavi +1Visual CountingCounting in VLMs

    Signals and Interactive Systems Lab, University of Trento, Italy

  18. Counting Circuits: Mechanistic Interpretability of Visual Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models

    Mar 19, 2026Liwei Che, Zhiyu Xue, Yihao Quan +7Visual CountingCounting in VLMs

    Rutgers University · UC Santa Barbara · University of Washington +1

  19. GroundCount: Grounding Vision-Language Models with Object Detection for Mitigating Counting Hallucinations

    Mar 11, 2026Boyuan Chen, Minghao Shao, Siddharth Garg +2Counting in VLMsVision-Language Models

    Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, NY, USA · eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE

  20. OrdinalBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Diagnosing Generalization Limits in Ordinal Number Understanding of Vision-Language Models

    Mar 8, 2026Yusuke Tozaki, Hisashi MiyamoriCounting in VLMsVLM Evaluation

    Division of Frontier Informatics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan