Semantic Richness or Geometric Reasoning? The Fragility of VLM's Visual Invariance

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Main Authors:	Qiu, Jason, Meurer, Zachary, Thomas, Xavier, Ghadiyaram, Deepti
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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