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PublishedOctober 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
When MLLMs miss what humans read: diagnosing and learning to read squint text
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arXiv:2610.13465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can fail to read text embedded in an image's coarse structure (text a human recovers by squinting) and report that no text is present. We name this class Squint Text and study it as a recognition deficiency, motivated by cases from a
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