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New framework evaluates causal influence on vision-language model generation

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Researchers have introduced a new framework called Temporal Causal Drive Evaluation to analyze how different information sources influence the generation process of vision-language models (VLMs). This framework uses causal and temporal metrics to track the evolving roles of visual input, question text, and generated prefixes during decoding. Experiments with models like Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct and InternVL2-8B demonstrated a shift from early reliance on question and visual guidance to increasing dependence on generated prefixes. The proposed causal-drive metrics showed significant improvements in reducing recovery error compared to observational baselines. AI

IMPACT Provides new diagnostic tools for understanding and improving VLM generation processes.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new evaluation framework for vision-language models. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New framework evaluates causal influence on vision-language model generation

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Shuyao Xiao, Shengling Wang, Haoyu Niu, Ke Chao, Changwei Xu, Xinran Duan, Chaoyong Jiang ·

    Who Drives the Probability Game of VLMs? A Temporal Causal Drive Evaluation Framework

    arXiv:2609.02000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly evaluated on complex image and video understanding tasks, yet conventional metrics primarily assess final-answer quality and reveal little about how different information sources shape …

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