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PublishedMay 27, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Real Images, Worse Judgments: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Concreteness and Imagery
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arXiv:2605.27315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual inputs are often assumed to improve language understanding in multimodal models. We examine this assumption by asking whether vision-language models (VLMs) can distinguish useful visual evidence from incidental image context in lexical judgments
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