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PublishedOctober 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Decodable but Misrouted: Sparse Features Uncover a Readout Gap in Vision-Language Models for Harmful Meme Detection
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arXiv:2609.18860v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When large vision-language models misclassify harmful memes, the failure may reflect missing internal evidence or an inability to route represented evidence to their outputs. We distinguish these cases in Gemma-3 and Qwen3.5 using sparse auto
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