VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs

NeurIPSSpotlight2025

Authors
Shmuel Berman, Jia Deng
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Spotlight

TL;DR

Vision Language Models (VLMs) excel at complex visual tasks such as VQA and chart understanding, yet recent work suggests they struggle with simple perceptual tests…

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Topics

language model reasoning

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