cs.MM · 2026-05-30 · No. 12

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    Unveiling the Visual Counting Bottleneck in Vision-Language Models

    Xingzhou Pang, Yifan Hou, Junling Wang, Mrinmaya Sachan

    cs.MM · cs.CV · cs.LG

    While Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at interpolation, they suffer catastrophic failures in systematic generalization, most notably in visual counting. In this work, we investigate this extrapolation bottleneck by deconstructing visual counting into three cognitive stages: visual individuation, magnitude awareness, and symbolic mapping. Using synthetic Go boards and linear probes, we demonstrate that visual backbones maintain...

    arxiv.org/abs/2605.30170 · PDF

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