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Retinal implants are a promising treatment option for degenerative retinal disease. While numerous models have been developed to simulate the appearance of elicited visual percepts ("phosphenes"), these models often either focus solely on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yuchen Hou , Laya Pullela , Jiaxin Su , Sriya Aluru , Shivani Sista , Xiankun Lu , Michael Beyeler

Visual reasoning is critical for a wide range of computer vision tasks that go beyond surface-level object detection and classification. Despite notable advances in relational, symbolic, temporal, causal, and commonsense reasoning, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayushman Sarkar , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Zhenyu Yu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal reasoning; yet, they remain vulnerable to hallucinations, where outputs are not grounded in visual evidence. In this paper, we investigate a previously overlooked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sifan Li , Hongkai Chen , Yujun Cai , Qingwen Ye , Liyang Chen , Junsong Yuan , Yiwei Wang

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in multimodal mathematical reasoning. Yet, how much visual information truly contributes to reasoning remains unclear. Existing benchmarks report strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuandong Wang , Yao Cui , Yuxin Zhao , Zhen Yang , Yangfu Zhu , Zhenzhou Shao

We present a universal framework to model contextualized sentence representations with visual awareness that is motivated to overcome the shortcomings of the multimodal parallel data with manual annotations. For each sentence, we first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhuosheng Zhang , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao

In information visualization, the position of symbols often encodes associated data values. When visualizing data elements with both a numerical and a categorical dimension, positioning in the categorical axis admits some flexibility. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Bernd Gärtner , Vishwas Kalani , Meghana M. Reddy , Wouter Meulemans , Bettina Speckmann , Miloš Stojaković

Harnessing the statistical power of neural networks to perform language understanding and symbolic reasoning is difficult, when it requires executing efficient discrete operations against a large knowledge-base. In this work, we introduce a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Chen Liang , Jonathan Berant , Quoc Le , Kenneth D. Forbus , Ni Lao

We introduce \textsc{MathSticks}, a benchmark for Visual Symbolic Compositional Reasoning (VSCR), which unifies visual perception, symbolic manipulation, and arithmetic consistency. Each task presents an incorrect matchstick equation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yuheng Ji , Huajie Tan , Cheng Chi , Yijie Xu , Yuting Zhao , Enshen Zhou , Huaihai Lyu , Pengwei Wang , Zhongyuan Wang , Shanghang Zhang , Xiaolong Zheng

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis posits that learned representations from models trained on different modalities converge to a shared latent structure of the world. However, this hypothesis has largely been examined in vision and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pratham Yashwante , Rose Yu

Natural language provides a widely accessible and expressive interface for robotic agents. To understand language in complex environments, agents must reason about the full range of language inputs and their correspondence to the world.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Stephanie Zhou , Alane Suhr , Yoav Artzi

This paper attempts a more formal approach to the legibility of text based programming languages, presenting, with proof, minimum possible ways of representing structure in text interleaved with information. This presumes that a minimalist…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Brenton Chapin

In spite of great advancements of machine reading comprehension (RC), existing RC models are still vulnerable and not robust to different types of adversarial examples. Neural models over-confidently predict wrong answers to semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Mantong Zhou , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

Typographic prompt injection exploits vision language models' (VLMs) ability to read text rendered in images, posing a growing threat as VLMs power autonomous agents. Prior work typically focus on maximizing attack success rate (ASR) but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ravikumar Balakrishnan , Sanket Mendapara

Despite Video Large Language Models having rapidly advanced in recent years, perceptual hallucinations pose a substantial safety risk, which severely restricts their real-world applicability. While several methods for hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yiming Sun , Mi Zhang , Feifei Li , Geng Hong , Min Yang

Neuroprostheses show potential in restoring lost sensory function and enhancing human capabilities, but the sensations produced by current devices often seem unnatural or distorted. Exact placement of implants and differences in individual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-31 Jacob Granley , Tristan Fauvel , Matthew Chalk , Michael Beyeler

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years, the prevalent issue known as the `hallucination' problem has emerged as a significant bottleneck, hindering their real-world deployments. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Fushuo Huo , Wenchao Xu , Zhong Zhang , Haozhao Wang , Zhicheng Chen , Peilin Zhao

In recent years, neural systems have demonstrated highly effective learning ability and superior perception intelligence. However, they have been found to lack effective reasoning and cognitive ability. On the other hand, symbolic systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dongran Yu , Bo Yang , Dayou Liu , Hui Wang , Shirui Pan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a variety of real-world tasks. However, existing VLMs typically process visual information by serializing images, a method that diverges significantly from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yueyan Li , Chenggong Zhao , Zeyuan Zang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

The goal of neuro-symbolic AI is to integrate symbolic and subsymbolic AI approaches, to overcome the limitations of either. Prominent systems include Logic Tensor Networks (LTN) or DeepProbLog, which offer neural predicates and end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Stephen Roth , Lennart Baur , Derian Boer , Stefan Kramer

WebAssembly enables near-native execution in web applications and is increasingly adopted for tasks that demand high performance and robust security. However, its assembly-like syntax, implicit stack machine, and low-level data types make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Weike Fang , Zhejian Zhou , Junzhou He , Weihang Wang