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On Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs

Researchers have introduced a new reinforcement learning framework called Be Faithful When Responding, designed to improve the reliability of vision-language models during multimodal reasoning tasks. This approach addresses common instability issues by preventing models from exploiting language patterns rather than accurately interpreting visual information.

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  • AApple Machine Learning BlogJul 2
  • AarXiv CS.AIXin Zou, Haolin Deng, Yibo Yan, Shuliang Liu, Kening Zheng, Zhiwei Jin, Chen Chen, Haonan Lu, Xuming HuJun 30
  • AarXiv CS.AIEric Peh, Debaditya Roy, Basura FernandoJun 30
  • AarXiv CS.AIShuimu Chen, Yuteng Chen, Yuanshen Guan, Zebang Cheng, Zeyu Zhang, Shengqian Qin, Bin Xia, Jiaran Li, Wenming Yang, Fei MaJun 29
  • AarXiv CS.AITao Cheng, Shi-Zhe Chen, Hao Zhang, Yixin Qin, Jinwen Luo, Zheng WeiJun 29
  • AarXiv CS.AIKaitao Chen, Weiqian Zhao, Jiamin Wu, Qihao Zheng, Shangquan Sun, Chunfeng Song, Xiaosong Wang, Mu Zhou, Mianxin LiuJul 1
  • AarXiv CS.AIJunha Jung, Minbyul Jeong, Suhyeon Lim, Sungwook Jung, Jaehoon Yun, Taeyun Roh, Mujeen Sung, Jaewoo KangJul 1
  • AarXiv CS.AIWeixin Chen, Antonio Vergari, Han ZhaoJul 1
  • AarXiv CS.AIYutao Sun, Yanting Miao, Hao-Xuan Ma, Mengyu Zhou, Mingshuai Chen, Tiancheng Zhao, Dexin Wang, Lei Lv, Li Xu, Xiaoxi Jiang, Guanjun JiangJun 30
  • AarXiv CS.AIPeng, Lee, Yin Zhang, Yanglin Zhang, Haonan Wu, Zishan Liu, Ruoxi Zang, Xin Zhu, Jiayin Zheng, Jian Yao, Zefeng Ji, Fei MaJun 30
  • AarXiv CS.AIWenhao Zhang, Kuanwei Lin, Xuyi Yang, Wei Gao, Ge LiJul 2
  • AarXiv CS.AILingxiao Li, Yifan Wang, Xinyan Gao, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Chenyu YouJul 2
  • AarXiv CS.AIHongxing Li, Xiufeng Huang, Dingming Li, Wenjing Jiang, Zixuan Wang, Haolei Xu, Hanrong Zhang, Haiwen Hong, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang, Yongliang ShenJul 2

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