2026
Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination
ICML 2026oral
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) frequently generate self-reflective statements during reasoning, such as ``let me check the figure again.'' Do such statements trigger genuine visual re-examination, or merely represent learned textual patterns? We investigate this question through VisualSwap, an image-…