Uncovering Grounding IDs: How External Cues Shape Multi-Modal Binding
arXiv:2509.24072v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) perform well on multimodal tasks, but their ability to reason and precisely align visual and textual information still has room for improvement. In this study, we show that external visual cues, such as symbols or grid lines, help LVLMs form more accurate connections between visual components, such as objects, and their corresponding textual descriptions, improving their grounding and reasoning abilit…