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Sens-VisualNews: A Benchmark Dataset for Sensational Image Detection
May 11, 2026Andreas Goulas, Damianos Galanopoulos, Evlampios Apostolidis +1VLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
Information Technologies Institute (ITI), CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece · Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
May 10, 2026Weijia Liufu, Xiaoyu Guo, Ruiyi Chen +16VLM Robustness Robot Failure Recovery
1Sun Yat-sen University · 2South China University of Technology · 3Peng Cheng Laboratory +3
Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation
May 10, 2026Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Haolin Liu +6VLM Robustness Image Corruption Robustness
Tencent Hunyuan · University of Maryland, College Park · University of Virginia +1
KEPIL: Knowledge-Enhanced Prompt-Image Learning for Prompt-Robust Disease Detection
May 9, 2026Haozhe Luo, Shelley Zixin Shu, Ziyu Zhou +2VLM Robustness Radiology VLMs
ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern · Kaiko.AI, Zurich, Switzerland · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1
FragileFlow: Spectral Control of Correct-but-Fragile Predictions for Foundation Model Robustness
May 9, 2026Zhuoyun Li, Boxuan Wang, Jinwei Hu +2VLM Robustness Spectral Regularization
School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, UK
Illusion-Aware Visual Preprocessing and Anti-Illusion Prompting for Classic Illusion Understanding in Vision-Language Models
May 9, 2026Junli Zha, Jiahui Wang, Xinkai Lu +1VLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
1SF Technology Co., Ltd.
MedVIGIL: Evaluating Trustworthy Medical VLMs Under Broken Visual Evidence
May 8, 2026Hanqi Jiang, Junhao Chen, Mingyu Kang +12VLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
University of Georgia · Chungbuk National University · Chungnam National University Hospital +5
Sparse Autoencoders as Plug-and-Play Firewalls for Adversarial Attack Detection in VLMs
May 8, 2026Hao Wang, Yiqun Sun, Pengfei Wei +2VLM Robustness Adversarial Attacks on VLMs
2Waseda University · 1Magellan Technology Research Institute (MTRI)
Weather-Robust Scene Semantics with Vision-Aligned 4D Radar
May 8, 2026Kali Hamilton, Christoffer HeckmanCross-Modal Learning VLM Robustness
Autonomous Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Hard to Read, Easy to Jailbreak: How Visual Degradation Bypasses MLLM Safety Alignment
May 8, 2026Zhixue Song, Boyan Han, Yiwei Wang +1VLM Robustness Adversarial Attacks on VLMs
1AGI Lab, Westlake University, China · University of California, Merced, USA
When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and Noise
May 6, 2026Philip Wootaek Shin, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Sivani Devarapalli +3VLM Robustness VLM Hallucination
The Pennsylvania State University
Test-Time Training for Visual Foresight Vision-Language-Action Models
May 6, 2026Sangwu Park, Wonjoong Kim, Yeonjun In +3VLM Robustness Test-Time Training
KAIST, Seoul, South Korea.
Laundering AI Authority with Adversarial Examples
May 5, 2026Jie Zhang, Pura Peetathawatchai, Florian Tramèr +1VLM Robustness Adversarial Attacks on VLMs
ETH Zurich · Switzerland
Does it Really Count? Assessing Semantic Grounding in Text-Guided Class-Agnostic Counting
May 4, 2026Giacomo Pacini, Luca Ciampi, Nicola Messina +3VLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy · University of Pisa - Department of Information Engineering, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy
LAGO: Language-Guided Adaptive Object-Region Focus for Zero-Shot Visual-Text Alignment
May 4, 2026Junyi Hu, Qiji Zhou, Lei Zhang +1VLM Robustness Efficient VLM Inference
Beijing Jiaotong University · Westlake University · Rochester Institute of Technology
CBV: Clean-label Backdoor Attacks on Vision Language Models via Diffusion Models
May 4, 2026Ji Guo, Xiaolong Qin, Cencen Liu +3VLM Robustness Adversarial Attacks on VLMs
Laboratory of Intelligent Collaborative Computing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China · School of Software Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Self-Captioning Multimodal Interaction Tuning: Amplifying Exploitable Redundancies for Robust Vision Language Models
May 3, 2026Yuriel Ryan, Hei Man Ip, Adriel Kuek +2VLM Robustness Multimodal Hallucination
Singapore University of Technology and Design · DSO National Laboratories · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
VisInject: Disruption != Injection -- A Dual-Dimension Evaluation of Universal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Models
May 2, 2026Pang Liu, Yingjie LaoVLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University
Beyond Perceptual Shortcuts: Causal-Inspired Debiasing Optimization for Generalizable Video Reasoning in Lightweight MLLMs
May 2, 2026Jingze Wu, Quan Zhang, Hongfei Suo +2VLM Robustness Video Reasoning
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Exploring Prompt Alignment with Clinical Factors in Zero-Shot Segmentation VLMs for NSCLC Tumor Segmentation
May 2, 2026Suraj Pai, Thibault Heintz, Cosmin Ciausu +3VLM Robustness Image Segmentation
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, USA
Persistent Visual Memory: Sustaining Perception for Deep Generation in LVLMs
May 1, 2026Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +6Memory-Augmented VLMs VLM Robustness
Shanghai AI Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +3
Intrinsic Gradient Suppression for Label-Noise Prompt Tuning in Vision-Language Models
May 1, 2026Jiayu Li, Jiaxin Qi, Sheng Zhou +2VLM Robustness VLM Adaptation
Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
May 1, 2026Hanxin Zhang, Mingshuo Xu, Abdulqader Dhafer +3VLM Robustness VLM Interpretability
1DANiLab, University of Leicester, UK · School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK · School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK
The Effects of Visual Priming on Cooperative Behavior in Vision-Language Models
Apr 30, 2026Kenneth J. K. OngVLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
1ST Engineering, Singapore.
Delineating Knowledge Boundaries for Honest Large Vision-Language Models
Apr 29, 2026Junru Song, Yimeng Hu, Yijing Chen +4VLM Robustness Vision-Language Models
Shandong University
Beyond Shortcuts: Mitigating Visual Illusions in Frozen VLMs via Qualitative Reasoning
Apr 29, 2026Hao Guo, Fei Wang, Junjie Chen +4VLM Robustness Visual Reasoning
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China · Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, China · Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China +2
SIEVES: Selective Prediction Generalizes through Visual Evidence Scoring
Apr 28, 2026Hector G. Rodriguez, Marcus RohrbachVisual Question Answering VLM Robustness
TU Darmstadt & hessian.AI, Germany
FCMBench-Video: Benchmarking Document Video Intelligence
Apr 28, 2026Runze Cui, Fangxin Shang, Yehui Yang +3VLM Evaluation Document Understanding
AI Lab, Qifu Technology, Beijing, China · School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China · Pazhou Lab, Guangzhou, China +1
One Perturbation, Two Failure Modes: Probing VLM Safety via Embedding-Guided Typographic Perturbations
Apr 28, 2026Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Sanket MendaparaVLM Evaluation VLM Robustness
Cisco Systems
Majorization-Guided Test-Time Adaptation for Vision-Language Models under Modality-Specific Shift
Apr 27, 2026Lixian Chen, Yanhui Chen, Junyi LinVLM Robustness Test-Time Adaptation
Guangdong University of Technology · Guangzhou, China

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Sens-VisualNews: A Benchmark Dataset for Sensational Image Detection

Andreas Goulas, Damianos Galanopoulos, Evlampios Apostolidis, Vasileios Mezaris

Information Technologies Institute (ITI), CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece · Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

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The detection of sensational content in media items can be a critical filtering mechanism for identifying check-worthy content and flagging potential disinformation, since such content triggers physiological arousal that often bypasses critical evaluation and accelerates viral sharing. In this paper we introduce the task of sensational image detection, which aims to determine whether an image contains shocking, provocative, or emotionally charged features to grab attention and trigger strong emotional responses. To support research on this task, we create a new benchmark dataset (called Sens-VisualNews) that contains 9,576 images from news items, annotated based on the (in-)existence of various sensational concepts and events in their visual content. Finally, using Sens-VisualNews, we study the prompt sensitivity, performance and robustness of a wide range of open SotA Multimodal LLMs, across both zero-shot and fine-tuned settings.

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