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Oct 2026
DecoyCount: Evaluating Visual-Reasoning Misalignment in Counting
Visual counting benchmarks report whether vision-language models produce the correct number, but not whether errors arise from perception or reasoning. We introduce DecoyCount, a benchmark built from 1,660 real-world images with designed decoys across seven mechanisms, along with paired prompts: a neutral question, a m...
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