VLMs Trace Without Tracking: Diagnosing Failures in Visual Path Following

arXiv:2605.15672 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-05-15

Updated: 2026-10-23

Terminology

• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Models (VLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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