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Mohammad Reza Taesiri

7 accepted papers

2026

Vision Language Models are Biased

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) memorize a vast amount of prior knowledge from the Internet that helps them on downstream tasks but also may notoriously sway their outputs towards wrong or biased answers. In this work, we test how the knowledge about popular subjects hurt the accuracy of vision languag…

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2026

ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models

ICML 2026poster

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit shortfalls when interpreting images and, by some measures, have poorer spatial cognition than young children or animals. Despite this, they attain high scores on many popular visual benchmarks, with headroom rapidly eroded by surging model progress. To address …

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2025

B-score: Detecting biases in large language models using response history

ICML 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit strong biases, e.g, against women or in favor of the number 7. We investigate whether LLMs would be able to output less biased answers when allowed to observe their prior answers to the same question in a multi-turn conversation. To understand which types o…

2025

VideoGameQA-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models for Video Game Quality Assurance

NeurIPS 2025poster

With video games leading in entertainment revenues, optimizing game development workflows is critical to the industry’s long-term success. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) hold significant potential to automate and enhance various aspects of game development—particularly video game q…

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2024

GlitchBench: Can Large Multimodal Models Detect Video Game Glitches?

CVPR 2024poster

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have evolved from large language models (LLMs) to integrate multiple input modalities such as visual inputs. This integration augments the capacity of LLMs for tasks requiring visual comprehension and reasoning. However the extent and limitations of their enhanced abil…

2023

ImageNet-Hard: The Hardest Images Remaining from a Study of the Power of Zoom and Spatial Biases in Image Classification

NeurIPS 2023poster

Image classifiers are information-discarding machines, by design. Yet, how these models discard information remains mysterious. We hypothesize that one way for image classifiers to reach high accuracy is to first zoom to the most discriminative region in the image and then extract features from ther…

2022

Visual correspondence-based explanations improve AI robustness and human-AI team accuracy

NeurIPS 2022accept

Explaining artificial intelligence (AI) predictions is increasingly important and even imperative in many high-stake applications where humans are the ultimate decision-makers. In this work, we propose two novel architectures of explainable image classifiers that first explain, and then predict (as…