Probing Negation Understanding in Vision-Language Models With Object Attention
arXiv:2610.20852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Negation is a fundamental aspect of language understanding and it is important vision-language models (VLMs) are able to process it effectively. We investigate how VLMs process negation by analysing attention patterns of different models. We draw comparisons between human gaze and attention in models when processing affirmative vs negated statements. We compare object level model attention to human eye-fixations in both binary and multary settin…