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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Telling Is Not Seeing: Textual Personas Rarely Make Vision-Language Models Answer Like the People They Describe
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arXiv:2610.39331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly prompted with personas, such as "You have low vision", to stand in for people in user studies. We ask whether a persona makes a model see like the person it describes. We compare persona answers with mea
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