Xiang Ren

When people query Vision-Language Models (VLMs) but cannot see the accompanying visual context (e.g. for blind and low-vision users), augmenting VLM predictions with natural language explanations can signal which model predictions are reliable. However, prior work has found that explanations can...

Human conversation relies heavily on conversational implicature , in which speakers convey meanings that are suggested rather than explicitly stated. Although recent large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong conversational fluency, they remain unreliable when interpretation depends on reasoning...