Rakshanda Hassan Abhinandan

Ask Twice, Look Twice: Prompt Echoing Resolves the Question-First Paradox in Vision-Language Models

Rakshanda Hassan Abhinandan, John Galeotti, Deva Ramanan, Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare

Where should the question go in a vision-language model (VLM) prompt: before the image or after it? Intuition says before: knowing what is asked should tell the model where to look. Yet across visual question answering benchmarks, question-first prompting consistently underperfor…Read more