MC-CXR: A Multi-Context Chest X-ray Benchmark for Context-Induced Disruption in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.24118 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Comments: 15 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026

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

Terminology

• Benchmark — 41× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chest X-ray — 17× in this paper
• Alignment — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Sycophancy — 6× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abstention — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reliable Context Stability — 3× in this paper
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
• Image-only Recognition — 2× in this paper
• Misleading Context Resistance — 2× in this paper
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

Sources

• A Vision-Language Foundation Model to Enhance Efficiency of Chest X-ray Interpretation
• MIMIC-CXR-JPG, a large publicly available database of labeled chest radiographs
• Reasoning Visual Language Model for Chest X-Ray Analysis
• MedGemma 1.5 Technical Report
• Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report
• PMC-VQA: Visual Instruction Tuning for Medical Visual Question Answering
• InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models

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