What Keeps Vision-Language Models Looking at the Image?

arXiv:2607.12815 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-14

Updated: 2026-10-04

Terminology

• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Test-time Scaling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Visual Access Boundary — 1× in this paper

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