If I had to summarize this paper in one philosophical question:
Why do we call some things by the same name and others by different names?
Related to old philosophy of logic/language is Quine's work (1960):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inscrut...
My first last-author paper is out!
If you saw this dog below and someone showed you the second image, would you consider them the same word/concept?
(more examples in Ada's thread)
We study if VLMs agree with humans on this and revisit old questions around shape vs. texture bias in vision
Benno Krojer
Super excited to finally announce my latest research “Would you still call this Dax? Novel Visual References in VLMs and Humans”!
We studied how vision-language models (VLMs) adopt new visual concepts and map them to language compared to humans, and found that…
