Do Multimodal LLMs See Before They Read? Diagnosing Contextual Sycophancy
arXiv:2609.00067v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: External text can override conflicting image evidence in multimodal large language models, a failure we call multimodal contextual sycophancy. We introduce a 998-case diagnostic that…
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Published1 d ago (Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT)
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AuthorYi-Cheng Lai, Hen-Hsen Huang