Same evidence, different judgments: Evidence noncommutative in vision/speech-text conflicts
For multimodal large language models, when images or speech conflict with accompanying text, measured text reliance can entangle modality preference with evidence position. Earlier studies of text bias often used a fixed evidence order or moved task instructions with the evidence, leaving the contribution of order unclear. In this paper, we use a paired comparison that keeps the instructions and evidence content fixed and swaps only the positions of the two sources to quantify this potential influence. Across vision and speech models, placing an image or recording after conflicting text consistently shifts answers toward its content. We also revisit previous studies and analyze why their ...
| Authors | Zhuoyun Li, Boxuan Wang, Xiaowei Huang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 22 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 22 September 2026 |
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