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How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding

As of 23 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 23 of 23 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.20279.

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This paper cites Wenliang Dai, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Anthony Tiong, Junqi Zhao, Weisheng Wang, Boyang Li, Pascale N Fung, and Steven Hoi.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Wenliang Dai, Junnan Li, Dongxu Li, Anthony Tiong, Junqi Zhao, Weisheng Wang, Boyang Li, Pascale N Fung, and Steven Hoi

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 6

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Observation 7dfd39f7-2da9-4227-b077-c9105219996a · outbound

This paper cites Transcoders Find Interpretable LLM Feature Circuits.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Transcoders Find Interpretable LLM Feature Circuits

Reference 7

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Observation e033c343-9192-40e3-ad5e-00400c0a5741 · outbound

This paper cites Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders

Reference 8

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Observation b2656b8f-2356-46a8-8b2d-f17385bd7e63 · outbound

This paper cites What Do VLMs NOTICE? A Mechanistic Interpretability Pipeline for Gaussian-Noise-free Text-Image Corruption and Evaluation.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding What Do VLMs NOTICE? A Mechanistic Interpretability Pipeline for Gaussian-Noise-free Text-Image Corruption and Evaluation

Reference 9

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Observation 2f1d0792-cf1a-4ede-bc7a-fb26795b264d · outbound

This paper cites How to use and interpret activation patching.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding How to use and interpret activation patching

Reference 11

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Observation aa626305-c01b-4707-b1a9-4c551602a5c9 · outbound

This paper cites MMNeuron: Discovering Neuron-Level Domain-Specific Interpretation in Multimodal Large Language Model.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding MMNeuron: Discovering Neuron-Level Domain-Specific Interpretation in Multimodal Large Language Model

Reference 13

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Observation 315330f3-a536-4e49-b825-6dab7b2bf359 · outbound

This paper cites Quantifying Feature Space Universality Across Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Quantifying Feature Space Universality Across Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders

Reference 14

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Observation de0f6f12-f9dd-4b7b-ad90-f5d2b918a6d3 · outbound

This paper cites Llava-next: Improved reasoning, ocr, and world knowledge, January 2024a.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Llava-next: Improved reasoning, ocr, and world knowledge, January 2024a

Reference 15

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Observation d7f5f1c2-47ec-4ea0-acd2-ece3ba25cc58 · outbound

This paper cites Towards Interpreting Visual Information Processing in Vision-Language Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Towards Interpreting Visual Information Processing in Vision-Language Models

Reference 16

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Observation 21e32dec-0b15-41cc-b523-251b9567f762 · outbound

This paper cites LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

Reference 17

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Observation 8bf32ff1-16ac-4f5e-80d4-9b39ba6113a3 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Qwen2-VL: Enhancing Vision-Language Model's Perception of the World at Any Resolution

Reference 18

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Observation 18fb96d7-d4d9-42c1-b8ab-86104187e19a · outbound

This paper cites Probing Large Language Models from A Human Behavioral Perspective.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Probing Large Language Models from A Human Behavioral Perspective

Reference 19

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Observation 943f7d77-626a-4680-ac2d-994b9cd7e972 · outbound

This paper cites How Interpretable are Reasoning Explanations from Prompting Large Language Models?.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding How Interpretable are Reasoning Explanations from Prompting Large Language Models?

Reference 20

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Observation 28f9fed7-a112-4e81-b7ec-e4fa5bb813b0 · outbound

This paper cites OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models

Reference 21

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Observation 49d9567f-a6ef-4923-90d6-94a88b39e795 · outbound

This paper cites MiniGPT-4: Enhancing Vision-Language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding MiniGPT-4: Enhancing Vision-Language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Models

Reference 23

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Observation 7039e817-5b59-4788-9ce7-54c877c062e8 · outbound

This paper cites Llama Scope: Extracting Millions of Features from Llama-3.1-8B with Sparse Autoencoders.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Llama Scope: Extracting Millions of Features from Llama-3.1-8B with Sparse Autoencoders

Reference 2017

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Observation 6399d9f2-939c-4928-a073-41faf76a7ee8 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen Technical Report.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Qwen Technical Report

Reference 2019

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Observation ec95d0d9-3213-41fb-bdc4-79c81d0e13ce · outbound

This paper cites Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Chameleon: Mixed-Modal Early-Fusion Foundation Models

Reference 2020

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This paper cites A structural probe for finding syntax in word representations.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding A structural probe for finding syntax in word representations

Reference 2021

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Observation 19697ec8-1d39-4cfa-9c0f-2a9f8313185c · outbound

This paper cites AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models

Reference 2022

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Observation 7a797298-bb6d-4bbe-a6d1-86b7ea7bc952 · outbound

This paper cites Understanding Information Storage and Transfer in Multi-modal Large Language Models.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Understanding Information Storage and Transfer in Multi-modal Large Language Models

Reference 2023

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This paper cites Language models are few-shot learners.

How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding Language models are few-shot learners

Reference 2024

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Pith citing papers

Observation 325c9e4d-786b-4d8f-8499-f721c7ce50e8 · inbound

From Heads to Neurons: Causal Attribution and Steering in Multi-Task Vision-Language Models cites this paper.

From Heads to Neurons: Causal Attribution and Steering in Multi-Task Vision-Language Models How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding

Reference 110

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The Hidden Evolution of Disguised Visual Context inside the VLM cites this paper.

The Hidden Evolution of Disguised Visual Context inside the VLM How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding

Reference 75

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Observation c976d48f-b72b-45db-a734-c8aebcdc54a5 · inbound

From Execution to Education: A Bloom-Aligned Framework for Measuring Educational Control in LLMs cites this paper.

From Execution to Education: A Bloom-Aligned Framework for Measuring Educational Control in LLMs How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding

Reference 198

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