How Murky Before a VLM Knows It Cannot See? Accuracy, Confidence and Abstention on a Physical Visibility Axis

arXiv:2610.22981 · cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-16 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-16

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: 16 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables

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

Terminology

• Abstention — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

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