The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.30210 · cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

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Alignment — 68× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Accuracy — 52× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment Scores — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Aggregation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Anisotropy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Linear probe — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Agentic Task — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agentic Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

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