Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti

The Count Is There, but Misaligned: Understanding and Correcting Counting Failures in VLMs

Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Abzal Nurgazy, Hilal AlQuabeh, Nikolai Rozanov, Kentaro Inui

Despite strong performance on many multimodal tasks, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with basic object counting. We investigate whether this reflects missing internal knowledge or a gap between internal representations and verbalized outputs. Training simple probes o…Read more