Taming Visual Neglect: A Variational Information Bottleneck Framework for Adaptive Attention in Multimodal In-Context Learning

arXiv:2608.23570 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-14 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-14

Updated: 2026-06-14

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cross-Modal Information Gain — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• In-Context Learning (ICL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information-Theoretic Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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