Eason Lai

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Vision and language · 33% Trustworthy machine learning · 33% Language models and text generation · 33%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › natural language understanding
ambiguity handling
0.912025
FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning · ACL (1) 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
robustness
0.912025
FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning · ACL (1) 2025
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language model
0.912025
FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning · ACL (1) 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

probing dataset · 0.9benchmark evaluation · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning
abstract
Humans possess a remarkable ability to interpret underspecified ambiguous statements by inferring their meanings from contexts such as visual inputs.This ability, however, may not be as developed in recent pre-trained visionlanguage models (VLMs).In this paper, we introduce a novel probing dataset called FO-CUS to evaluate whether state-of-the-art VLMs have this ability.FOCUS consists of underspecified sentences paired with image contexts and carefully designed probing questions.Our experiments reveal that VLMs still fall short in handling underspecification even when visual inputs that can help resolve the ambiguities are available.To further support research in underspecification, FOCUS will be released for public use.We hope this dataset will inspire further research on the reasoning and contextual understanding capabilities of VLMs.
Kankan Zhou, Eason Lai, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Jing Jiang 0001
ACL (1)2