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How Multimodal LLMs Solve Image Tasks: A Lens on Visual Grounding, Task Reasoning, and Answer Decoding

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Main Authors:	Yu, Zhuoran, Lee, Yong Jae
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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