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  1. Visual Orchestration Tax in Agentic VLM Pipelines: Auditing and Certifying Visual Evidence Reuse

    Oct 6, 2026Lingteng ZengVisual Evidence

    Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China

  2. MoLE: Mixture of Latent Experts for Complementary Visual Reasoning

    Oct 1, 2026Yingcheng Liu, Tianyi Jiang, Yujuan Ding +5Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    Tongji University, China · Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong · Alibaba Group, China +1

  3. Same Reward, Different Skills: When Multimodal RL Learns to Look

    Oct 1, 2026Haocun Ye, Xinlong Jiang, Qile Chen +6Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Evidence

    University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Independent Researcher

  4. Video-Index: A Curated Meta-Benchmark for Video Understanding

    Oct 1, 2026Enxin Song, Yinuo Xu, Shusheng Yang +2Long-Video BenchmarksLong Videos

    University of Pennsylvania · New York University · Princeton University

  5. Rethinking Multi-Image Re-Representation in Multi-Image Understanding

    Sep 30, 2026Gengyuan Zhang, Xiao Han, Xinyu Xie +2Multimodal Large Language ModelsFine-Grained Perception

    LMU Munich · MCML

  6. Faithful Chart Generation for Multimodal Deep Research: Frame-Evidence Co-Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Yuxin Yue, Yingchen Zhang, Ruqing Zhang +3Visual EvidenceVisual Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China · University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  7. CRAFT: Causal Responsibility and Failure Tracing in Medical Vision Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Chunzheng Zhu, Jiaqi Zeng, Hongbo Zhao +3Medical Vision-Language ModelsVisual Evidence

    Hunan University · University of Hong Kong

  8. Distill the Visual Evidence, Not Just the Answer: Cross-World On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Yuanhao Sun, Huawei Ji, Jiaxin Ding +2Visual EvidenceProbe-Logit Distillation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  9. Composition, Not Conversation: VLMs Lose the Scene, Not the Thread

    Sep 29, 2026L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, N. Siva Gopala Krishna +5TextvqaRecent Vision-Language Models

    NIT Silchar · MBZUAI · BML Munjal University +1

  10. A Benchmark & Dataset for Detecting AI-Manipulated Visual Evidence in the Court System

    Sep 29, 2026Kelly McConvey, Sajad Ebrahimi, Nima Jamali +10Multimedia ForensicsVisual Evidence

    University of Toronto Toronto, Canada · University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada · University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada +2

  11. TAEC: Trajectory-Aware Evidence Coordination for Multi-Step Visual RAG

    Sep 29, 2026Yalun Wu, Bingzhou Wang, Boyang Wang +5Visual EvidenceMultimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation

    NExT++ Lab, National University of Singapore

  12. Visual Parallel Search: Learning to Search High-Resolution Images with Parallel Tile Inspection and Adaptive Zoom

    Sep 29, 2026Xijia Tao, Yihua Teng, Xinyu Fu +5Multiple Vision TasksVisual Evidence

    The University of Hong Kong · Huawei Research · City University of Hong Kong +1

  13. Beyond Readability: Evaluating Task Information Recoverability

    Sep 29, 2026Yiwei LiuReadabilityMultiple Vision Tasks

    School of Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  14. On-Policy Visual Evidence Distillation

    Sep 29, 2026Shaohang Wei, Feifan Song, Guangyue Peng +9Visual EvidenceOn-Policy

    Peking University · CUHK · Nanjing University +1

  15. RED: Reconstruction Evolution Dynamics for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

    Sep 29, 2026Wenpeng Mu, Junshan Jin, Tanfeng Sun +2Ai-Generated Image DetectionDigital Forensics

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  16. Visual sensitivity is not claim retractability: persistence-aware credit assignment for multimodal reinforcement learning

    Sep 29, 2026Zhongan Bi, Kepeng Lin, Xuanang Gao +2Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Evidence

    Zhejiang University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  17. When Words Speak Louder than Images: Towards Understanding Language Bias in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Yizhou Fang, Siyue Chen, Zimo Qi +3LinguisticsVisual Evidence

    University of Waterloo · Independent Researcher · Johns Hopkins University +3

  18. DF-CBM: Region-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models for Deepfake Detection

    Sep 28, 2026Georgios Tsoumplekas, Vazgken Vanian, Alexandros Doumanoglou +4Deepfake DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Department of Networks and Digital Media, Kingston University London, UK · Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece · Department of Computer Science, Kingston University London, UK

  19. InfiMed2: A Generalist Medical Multimodal Foundation Model from Contextual Evidence and Stability-Aware Supervision

    Sep 28, 2026Guanghao Zhu, Zeyu Liu, Zhitian Hou +9Multimodal Clinical DataMultimodal Foundation Model

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · PolyU-Daya Bay Technology and Innovation Research Institute

  20. When VLMs Trust Context: Evaluating Scene Text Recognition under Misleading Context

    Sep 28, 2026Yuxing Cheng, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangScene Text RecognitionVision-Language Foundation Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University · Engineering Research Center of Knowledge-Driven Human-Machine Intelligence, MOE, China · International Center of Future Science, Jilin University

  21. Evidence-Aligned Multimodal On-Policy Self-Distillation for Fine-Grained Visual Understanding

    Sep 28, 2026Nanxing Hu, Qiwei Yan, Jinchao Zhang +1Cross-Modal DistillationFine-Grained Perception

    Beihang University · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

  22. Rethinking Latent Visual Reasoning: Grounding Latent Reasoning in Visual Evidence

    Sep 28, 2026Xi Xiao, Tianchen Zhao, Youngeun Kim +10Latent Visual ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    University of Alabama at Birmingham · Amazon AGI · Work done during an internship at Amazon AGI.

  23. TLC-DiT: Task-Aligned Local Visual Conditioning for Robust Multitask Robot Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Xianbo Cai, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Zihang Wang +2Robotic ManipulationDiffusion Transformers

    Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan · SB Intuitions Corp., Tokyo, Japan · Department of Electronic and Physical Systems, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan +2

  24. A Visual Classification Dataset and Model Evaluation for Historical Manuscript Illustrations

    Sep 27, 2026Yoav Evron, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Michael FireVision DatasetsHistorical Manuscripts

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel · The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

  25. MIC: Explaining Image-Claim Inconsistencies in AI-Generated Multimodal Misinformation

    Sep 27, 2026Ruihong Zeng, Jonathan Tonglet, Preslav Nakov +1MisinformationReference-Guided Multimodal In-Context Verification

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE · UKP Lab · Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany +2

  26. AnchorReasoning: A Visual Grounding and Causal Reasoning Dataset in Long-Tail Autonomous Driving Scenarios

    Sep 23, 2026Zhipeng Bao, Wenjie Zhao, Tianle Zhu +4Autonomous DrivingHuman Driving

    School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia · School of Computing, University of Georgia

  27. Self-Evolving Multimedia Verification through Memory Consolidation of Contestation Experiences

    Sep 23, 2026Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen, Vo Thanh Khang Nguyen, Hoang-Loc Cao +4Reference-Guided Multimodal In-Context VerificationVisual Evidence

    University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada · FPT Software, Quy Nhon, Vietnam · University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam

  28. Look Where It Counts: A Free, Label-Free Visual Evidence Signal for Fine-Grained Vision-Language Reasoning

    Sep 21, 2026Santi Ram Tiwari, Nihal Naik, Devbrat Pandey +1Fine-Grained PerceptionRecent Vision-Language Models

    KGraph AI Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, India – 560016

  29. PREM: Prefix-Steered Recurrent Memory for Long-Video Understanding

    Sep 20, 2026Siru Zhong, Qiongyan Wang, Xiaohui Lv +5Frozen Vision-Language ModelsLong-Video Benchmarks

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Beta Infinity · Tsinghua University

  30. Decodable but Misrouted: Sparse Features Uncover a Readout Gap in Vision-Language Models for Harmful Meme Detection

    Sep 16, 2026Girish A. Koushik, Diptesh Kanojia, Helen TreharneReadoutVisual Evidence

    Nature-Inspired Computing & Engineering Department of Computer Science University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom · Surrey Centre for Cyber Security Department of Computer Science University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom

  31. EDCT-Bench: Uncovering Faithfulness Gaps in VLMs via Explanation-Driven Counterfactual Testing

    Sep 16, 2026Sihao Ding, Santosh Vasa, Aditi Ramadwar +1Visual EvidenceExplainable AI Methods

    Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America

  32. Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Ziheng Ren, Qian Gao, Jun Fan +3Hallucination MitigationReference-Guided Multimodal In-Context Verification

    Key Laboratory of Computing Power Network and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong Computer Science Center (National Supercomputer Center in Jinan), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China · Shandong Engineering Research Center of Big Data Applied Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250353, China · Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Industrial Network and Information System Security, Shandong Fundamental Research Center for Computer Science, Jinan 250014, China +2

  33. Probe-VAD: Ordinal Likelihood Probing for Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection

    Sep 15, 2026Jiawei Gu, Qilin Zhao, Tengkuo Guo +6Training-Free Video Anomaly DetectionAnomaly Score

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou 215163, China · Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, School of Medicine and Health, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China · School of Instrumentation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China +2

  34. OPD-Aha: From Linguistic Momentum to Visual Reflection in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 15, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Dawei Li, Yechao Zhang +2Multimodal ReasoningTeacher

    Arizona State University · University of Virginia · Stevens Institute of Technology

  35. Navigating Sparse Evidence: Agentic Visual RAG via Explicit Context Selection and Consolidation

    Sep 14, 2026Yucheng Shen, Lingyong Yan, Jiulong Wu +4Visual EvidenceKnowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University · Baidu Inc.

  36. Omni-Streaming Thinking

    Sep 14, 2026Enjun Du, Siyi Liu, Ziyu Zheng +4Omni-ModalAudio-Visual Reasoning

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Sussex +2

  37. Concentrate After Imagination: Text-Conditioned Evidence Grounding for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

    Sep 8, 2026Shuaiqi Cheng, Siyu You, Yanbi Wu +3Visual EvidenceImagination

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · 3The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  38. EgoSIS: From Factorized Visual Ego-Transitions to Motion-Canonical Spatial Evidence for UAV Reasoning

    Sep 8, 2026Jingpu Yang, Fengxian Ji, Mingxuan Cui +4Motion-Based PerceptionFine-Grained Video Understanding

    Beihang University, Beijing, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · Northeastern University, Shenyang, China +1

  39. FailBench: How Reliable are VLMs at Judging Robot Task Success?

    Sep 3, 2026Zaruhi Navasardyan, Tatul Danielyan, Hrant DavtyanRobotic ManipulationRobot Systems

    Metric AI Lab

  40. VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement

    Sep 2, 2026Wenzhuo Xu, Yuchen Zhu, Chongjian Ge +8Physical PlausibilityGeneration Provenance

    1Carnegie Mellon University · 2Georgia Institute of Technology · 4Adobe Research +1

  41. InSight: A Benchmark for Agentic Claim Verification in Interactive Visualizations

    Sep 1, 2026Maeve Hutchinson, Syed Mahbubul Huq, Mohammad Albinhassan +3Category-Aware Atomic ClaimsVisual Evidence

    City, University of London · Imperial College London · The Alan Turing Institute

  42. Does This Moment Justify the Recommendation? Counterfactual Behavior-Grounded Evidence Retrieval for Personalized Video Recommendation

    Sep 1, 2026Xin LiuVideo Temporal GroundingShort Video Bursts

  43. LOCI: A Locator-Critic with Refinement Loop

    Aug 31, 2026Walid Bousselham, Mathilde Caron, Arsha Nagrani +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Evidence

    Google DeepMind

  44. CheXGround: Anatomical Region Tokens for Grounded Longitudinal Chest X-ray Interpretation

    Aug 31, 2026Adonay Demewez Gebremedhin, Wessam Shehieb, Sara Alansari +4Chest X-RayMedical Vision-Language Models

    Ajman University Ajman, United Arab Emirates · University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom · Khalifa University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates +1

  45. VisER: Visual Evidence and Reliance for Object Hallucination Detection in LVLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +1Citation Hallucination DetectionVisual Evidence

    School of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

  46. Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models

    Aug 30, 2026Aditi Sarker, Nazreen Shah, Rafi Ibn Sultan +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsLarge Language Model Hallucination

    Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, MI, USA · Department of Electronics & Communications Engineering, IIIT Delhi, India · Institute for AI and Data Science (AIDaS), Wayne State University, MI, USA

  47. Conditional Visual Evidence Utility: State-Dependent Rank Reversals in Frozen Vision-Language Encoders

    Aug 28, 2026Yunxuan Fang, Xinhe WangVisual EvidenceMultiple Vision Tasks

    Beihang University

  48. CoverPrune: Coverage-Driven Token Pruning for 3D VLMs via Optimal Transport

    Aug 13, 2026Peng Ling, Yingda Yin, Lingting Zhu +5Visual Token Pruning3D Spatial Reasoning

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · LIGHTSPEED

  49. TRAPSBench: Vision-Language Models Encode but Fail to Express Epistemic Restraint

    Aug 13, 2026Fnu Pramono, John Cai, Sourabh KulkarniVisual EvidenceAbstention

    Meta Superintelligence Labs · Reflection AI

  50. Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

    Aug 13, 2026Jakub Pokrywka, Łukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik +3Medical Visual Question AnsweringMultiple-Choice Visual Question Answering

    Adam Mickiewicz University · ARAAI Poland · NASK National Research Institute +2

  51. Beyond Visual Evidence: Revealing and Mitigating Relational Privacy Leakage in Document MLLMs

    Aug 13, 2026Beining Xu, Hairui Wang, Jiaxin Wang +2PrivacyMultimodal Large Language Models

  52. Verifiably grounded machine interpretation of lunar geology

    Aug 10, 2026Tom Sander, Kay Wohlfarth, Christian WöhlerGeological Semantic UnderstandingRosetta

    Image Analysis Group, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany

  53. REVEAL: A Rubric-Guided Agent for Explicit Evidence Sufficiency Verificationin Long-Video Question Answering

    Aug 9, 2026Caijun Yan, Yang Zhou, Meixing Shi +4Long Video Question AnsweringVideo Understanding

    1Zhejiang University · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory

  54. RobustDefect-LLM: Explainable and Robustness-Aware Industrial Surface Defect Classification with Decision Support and AI-Assisted Reporting

    Aug 9, 2026Nazlıcan Düşünmez, Halûk GümüşkayaDefect DetectionInspection

    Department of Computer Engineering, İstanbul Arel University, 34537 Istanbul, Türkiye

  55. Debias in Text, Believe Your Eyes: Text-Anchored Cross-Modal Transfer for Visual Counter-Commonsense Reasoning

    Aug 7, 2026Chen Ling, Hanqian Li, Dongnan Liu +9Multimodal Large Language ModelsVisual Evidence

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +2

  56. The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images

    Aug 6, 2026Zhiheng Wang, Bo Peng, Lai Wei +1Visual EvidenceIllusions

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 3Shanghai Innovation Institute

  57. Seeing Is Not Deciding: Can Multimodal LLMs Act as Effective CEOs?

    Aug 6, 2026Yuyang Dai, Xueqing Peng, Yuxia Wang +2Multimodal Large Language ModelsVisual Evidence

    INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria · Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  58. Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Yuta Kobayashi, Pradyun Ramesh, Muhammad Ahmed Chaudhry +5Radiology Report GenerationMedical Vision-Language Models

    Columbia University · Stanford University · Emory University

  59. Trace, Verify, and Correct: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

    Aug 5, 2026Yang Yang, Jiawei Chen, Tairan Chen +1Spatial ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multidimensional Information Processing, East China Normal University · Zhongguancun Academy · Stevens Institute of Technology

  60. Representing Visual Evidence for Item Difficulty Prediction: Visual Textualization and Image-Native Modeling

    Aug 5, 2026Han Chen, Ming Li, Hong Jiao +1Visual Evidence

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Maryland