Cross-Task Dissociation in Frontier Vision-Language Model Theory of Mind

arXiv:2608.00261 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.MA, q-bio.NC · Submitted 2026-07-31 · Read on arXiv

Kejia Zhang, Youran Sun, Chugang Yi, Haizhao Yang

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.MA, q-bio.NC

Submitted: 2026-07-31

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Benchmark — 36× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ablation — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Harness — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
LLM judge — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Vision-language models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Coherence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Papers — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Vision-Language Model (VLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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