RLVR Trains VLMs on Instruction Hierarchy with Just 7K Verifiable Examples
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-24
Researchers release an EMNLP 2026 Findings paper, "Seeing Through Conflicts: Improving Instruction Hierarchy Alignment in Vision-Language Models."
- Uses RLVR to train VLMs to reason over instruction hierarchies across text and images, with only 7K verifiable examples and zero safety training data.
- Shows substantial gains on vision-centric safety benchmarks and web agents, with improvements transferring to real image attacks.
- To be presented at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest.
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