Readout is not Recovery: Dissociating Coordinate Emission from Visual-Corruption Repair in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.32757 · cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Trace — 16× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decode — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 5× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Kimi-VL Technical Report
• Benchmarking Robustness in Object Detection: Autonomous Driving when Winter is Coming
• Kosmos-2: Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models to the World

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