Investigating Relational Reasoning in VLMs

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong performance in visual reasoning tasks, but it remains unclear whether they understand visual relations, or simply employ shortcuts such as language cues or priors.

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong performance in visual reasoning tasks, but it remains unclear whether they understand visual relations, or simply employ shortcuts such as language cues or priors. To investigate this, we use the Qwen3-VL-4B (Bai et al., 2025), a…