MedQA-MM: Shortcuts Behind Medical Visual Reasoning
A benchmark score credits final answers, but not the route by which an item can be answered. In medical multimodal multiple-choice questions (MCQs), this distinction matters because a correct answer can be supported by the intended image finding or by benchmark-preserved cues in the wording of answers, non-visual clinical text, visible image text, artificial annotations, or device/context artifacts. We call the resulting score-level overinterpretation reasoning inflation. Here, a route is an observable input path that can support answer selection, not a claim about the model's hidden cognition. Across six medical multimodal MCQ datasets, we separate candidate cues from behavioral evidence...
| Authors | Benlu Wang, Yifan Zhang, Jiaqing Yu et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 3 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 8 September 2026 |
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