A systematic evaluation of vision-language models for observational astronomical reasoning tasks

arXiv:2604.24589 · cs.AI, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-04-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-04-27

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Vision-language models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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