arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-22
ENTRAP-VL: A Taxonomic Probe for Dual Contextual Entrainment in Vision-Language Models
Karan Goyal, Afreen Hossain, Debojyoti Das, Vishal Bhutani
Contextual entrainment is the tendency of a model to let auxiliary context in its input pull its output, independently of whether that context is relevant, true, or even meaningful. Recently, it has been identified and given a mechanistic account in unimodal language models. Whet…