Papers by Anisha Saha
System-Mediated Attention Imbalances Make Vision-Language Models Say Yes (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing mitigation strategies tend towards an image-centric interpretation of these imbalances, prioritising increased image attention while giving less consideration to the roles of the other modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a more holistic, system-mediated account which attributes imbalances to functionally redundant system weights that reduce attention to image and textual inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework offers a useful empirical perspective on the yes-bias, a common form of hallucination in which VLMs indiscriminately respond ‘yes’. |