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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References?

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 26 of 26 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.18297.

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Observation 5a825c22-ff2a-4b06-997f-63df57fcac5b · outbound

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

Reference 2

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

Reference 3

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This paper cites The questions then undergo multiple rounds of data cleaning:.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? The questions then undergo multiple rounds of data cleaning:

Reference 4

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.136277Z

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Observation db1e8628-3c93-4dd3-9e50-0a7e84dd781e · outbound

This paper cites Finally, the QA pairs are deduplicated using both exact match and Llama-3.1-8B.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Finally, the QA pairs are deduplicated using both exact match and Llama-3.1-8B

Reference 5

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

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Observation 62e57388-0a7b-4d29-a68d-92315495ea3f · outbound

This paper cites This is because we want to measure factual recall, not the ability to state the object in the image.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? This is because we want to measure factual recall, not the ability to state the object in the image

Reference 12

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Observation 0d2599bd-5511-4020-ae61-105432f8f82f · outbound

This paper cites This is to ensure the text alone can identify the entity.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? This is to ensure the text alone can identify the entity

Reference 13

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.110310Z

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This paper cites This helps reduce the number of ambiguous, unclear or subjective questions that are not fact-based.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? This helps reduce the number of ambiguous, unclear or subjective questions that are not fact-based

Reference 14

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

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Observation 709c9dd2-4aa5-4ba9-b32a-3726cb524fd4 · outbound

This paper cites This ensures the VLM being tested contains the relevant internal knowledge.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? This ensures the VLM being tested contains the relevant internal knowledge

Reference 17

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.074957Z

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Observation 9050b686-e2f3-4a1f-b493-db246e3f4daa · outbound

This paper cites This filters questions that are trivially easy to answer using language priors from the sentence.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? This filters questions that are trivially easy to answer using language priors from the sentence

Reference 18

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Observation 04ea4ef9-13a4-45f9-8ac3-0b11cb82ba0e · outbound

This paper cites The standard for Correctness is whether or not the answer provided an acceptable answer for the given question.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? The standard for Correctness is whether or not the answer provided an acceptable answer for the given question

Reference 19

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.056437Z

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites InstructBLIP), we do only a for- ward pass through the LM.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? InstructBLIP), we do only a for- ward pass through the LM

Reference 23

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.016383Z

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Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Unresolved cited work

Reference 24

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This paper cites 800GB of RAM and 256 AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core Processor.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? 800GB of RAM and 256 AMD EPYC 9554 64-Core Processor

Reference 25

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:09.997482Z

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This paper cites The time taken to run each part of the experiment varies with the hardware used.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? The time taken to run each part of the experiment varies with the hardware used

Reference 26

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:09.987798Z

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This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 2000

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Observation 55d9847c-52fc-478c-9e41-4248092e9554 · outbound

This paper cites Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

Reference 2014

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This paper cites selective predic- tion.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? selective predic- tion

Reference 2021

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.170760Z

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Observation 7cc3317f-0044-4f5b-8930-7c461e447166 · outbound

This paper cites Large Multimodal Agents: A Survey.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Large Multimodal Agents: A Survey

Reference 2023

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This paper cites Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, 16(1- 2):1–214.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, 16(1- 2):1–214

Reference 2024

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-05T17:20:10.180968Z

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Observation 8a18a8b4-45b6-4976-adf4-3f93ccde6e89 · outbound

This paper cites SimpleVQA: Multimodal Factuality Evaluation for Multimodal Large Language Models.

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References? SimpleVQA: Multimodal Factuality Evaluation for Multimodal Large Language Models

Reference 2025

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