Semantic Richness or Geometric Reasoning? The Fragility of VLM's Visual Invariance

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Claims: 7

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Source paper: Semantic Richness or Geometric Reasoning? The Fragility of VLM's Visual Invariance

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.01848v1

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Coverage: 33%

Last proof check: 2026-04-03T20:50:40.576Z

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they exhibit systematic failures at a more fundamental level: lack of robust spatial invariance and equivariance required to reliably determine object identity under simple rotations, scaling, and identity transformations
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Performance drops sharply as semantic content becomes sparse
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We demonstrate this limitation through a systematic evaluation across diverse visual domains, including symbolic sketches, natural photographs, and abstract art
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this behavior is observed across architectures, model capacities, and prompting strategies
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Overall, our results reveal a systematic gap between semantic understanding and spatial reasoning in current VLMs
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While modern VLMs excel at semantic tasks such as recognizing objects in canonical orientations and describing complex scenes
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highlighting the need for stronger geometric grounding in future multimodal systems
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