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Pay More Attention To Text In High-Resolution MLLMs

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 20, 2026 · UTC

Failures of high-resolution MLLMs are commonly attributed to a visual problem, motivating zooming, cropping, and related visual interventions to recover fine-grained evidence or suppress interference. Yet recent studies suggest that relevant visual evidence is already encoded in intermediate representations, indicating that visual-side improvements alone insufficient. This raises a natural question: does the remaining bottleneck lie in the text that guides visual search? We identify a previously overlooked linguistic bottleneck: questions formulated for answering do not necessarily specify the

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