VLM Errors: Blindness or Reasoning Failure?
VectorInst · x · 2026-07-09
The post poses an intriguing question: when vision-language models answer image-based questions incorrectly, do they fail to "see" or fail to "reason"? The author points out that these two failure modes are fundamentally different and require entirely different approaches to fix.
Related event: MoCA Paper Decouples Perception and Reasoning in VLMs(2 posts)→
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