arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.LG2026-07-08
When Prompts Ignore Structure: Graph-Based Attribute Reasoning for Calibrated VLMs
Tanay Sodha, Aditya Sharma, Ramya Hebbalaguppe, Vinti Agarwal, Pranav Murthy Yeluripaty
Reliable confidence estimation remains a key limitation of test-time adaptation in vision-language models (VLMs), where prompt tuning improves zero-shot accuracy but often degrades calibration due to entropy-driven overconfidence. Prior approaches mitigate this using LLM-derived…