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OccludeBench: Can VLMs Find What's Missing?
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- OccludeBench is a benchmark testing whether vision-language models can reason about fully hidden objects using visual cues like shadows, reflections, or scene context.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building or evaluating VLMs, especially those handling incomplete visual information in robotics, surveillance, or scene understanding applications.
- Watch out
- VLMs show a 20-point accuracy gap between direct physical cues and inferential reasoning, and standard prompting techniques do not reliably close this gap.
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- benchmark
The patterns behind this
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Context Engineering Frameworks
- MMAU: Massive Multitask Agent Understanding
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