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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading

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This paper cites Consistency and uncertainty: Identifying unreliable responses from black- box vision-language models for selective visual question answering.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Consistency and uncertainty: Identifying unreliable responses from black- box vision-language models for selective visual question answering

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This paper cites Decompose and Compare Consistency: Measuring VLMs' Answer Reliability via Task-Decomposition Consistency Comparison.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Decompose and Compare Consistency: Measuring VLMs' Answer Reliability via Task-Decomposition Consistency Comparison

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This paper cites Zoom Consistency: A Free Confidence Signal in Multi-Step Visual Grounding Pipelines.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Zoom Consistency: A Free Confidence Signal in Multi-Step Visual Grounding Pipelines

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This paper cites When Does Consensus Mean Correctness? Measuring the Agreement-Accuracy Coupling with Semantics-Preserving Re-Rendering.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading When Does Consensus Mean Correctness? Measuring the Agreement-Accuracy Coupling with Semantics-Preserving Re-Rendering

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This paper cites VL-Uncertainty: Detecting Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Model via Uncertainty Estimation.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading VL-Uncertainty: Detecting Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Model via Uncertainty Estimation

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This paper cites MetaRA: Metamorphic Robustness Assessment for Multimodal Large Language Model-based Visual Question Answering Systems.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading MetaRA: Metamorphic Robustness Assessment for Multimodal Large Language Model-based Visual Question Answering Systems

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This paper cites Bidirectional Empowerment of Metamorphic Testing and Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Bidirectional Empowerment of Metamorphic Testing and Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey

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This paper cites Minimum Complete MR Subsets under Semantic-Mutation Fault Models: A Support-Set Domination Boundary.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Minimum Complete MR Subsets under Semantic-Mutation Fault Models: A Support-Set Domination Boundary

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This paper cites Learning more from less: Exploiting counterfactuals for data-efficient chart understanding.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Learning more from less: Exploiting counterfactuals for data-efficient chart understanding

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This paper cites What if the tv was off? examining counterfactual reasoning abilities of multi-modal language models.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading What if the tv was off? examining counterfactual reasoning abilities of multi-modal language models

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This paper cites Pixels versus priors: Controlling knowledge priors in vision-language models through visual counterfacts.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Pixels versus priors: Controlling knowledge priors in vision-language models through visual counterfacts

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This paper cites Unraveling the truth: Do vlms really understand charts? a deep dive into consistency and robustness,.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Unraveling the truth: Do vlms really understand charts? a deep dive into consistency and robustness,

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This paper cites Losing the plot: How vlm responses degrade on imperfect charts.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18425, 2025.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Losing the plot: How vlm responses degrade on imperfect charts.arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18425, 2025

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This paper cites Chart-rvr: Re- inforcement learning with verifiable rewards for explainable chart reasoning, 2025.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Chart-rvr: Re- inforcement learning with verifiable rewards for explainable chart reasoning, 2025

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This paper cites On Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs.

Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading On Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Metamorphic testing of large language models for natural language processing

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Test Adequacy for Metamorphic Testing: Criteria, Measurement, and Implication

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Hallusionbench: an advanced diagnostic suite for entangled language hallucination and visual illusion in large vision-language models

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Counterfactual Segmentation Reasoning: Diagnosing and Mitigating Pixel-Grounding Hallucination

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Charthal: A fine- grained framework evaluating hallucination of large vision language models in chart understanding,

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading VL-Calibration: Decoupled Confidence Calibration for Large Vision-Language Models Reasoning

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading On the foundations of noise-free selective classification.Journal of Machine Learning Research, 11(5), 2010

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading On calibration of modern neural networks

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading selective prediction

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Chart-coca: Self-improving chart understanding of vision lms via code-driven synthesis and candidate-conditioned answering, 2025

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading How far are we to gpt-4v? closing the gap to commercial multimodal models with open-source suites.Science China Information Sciences, 67(12):220101, 2024

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Chartqa: A benchmark for question answering about charts with visual and logical reasoning

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Testing and validating machine learning classifiers by metamorphic testing.Journal of Systems and Software, 84(4):544–558, 2011

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading how many countries have the same value

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Consistency Has a Computable Blind Spot: A Commutation Theory of Label-Free Reliability for Vision-Language Figure Reading Unraveling the Truth: Do VLMs really Understand Charts? A Deep Dive into Consistency and Robustness

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