VLind-Bench: Measuring Language Priors in Large Vision-Language Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Large Vision-Language Models suffer from a problem known as language prior . such language priors can lead to undesirable biases and hallucinations when dealing with images that are out of distribution. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to measure the language priors of Large Vision-Language Models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark is the first specifically designed to measure the language priors, or blindness, of LVLMs. |
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