arxivcs.CVcs.SE2026-07-03
Prior Bias in Vision Language Models on UML Diagram Interpretation
Zaiyu Cheng, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen, Antonio Mastropaolo
Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to software engineering artifacts, especially UML class diagrams whose meaning depends on visual notation. Yet, it is unclear whether VLMs actually read such diagrams or instead answer from pretrained priors about how classes…