probe-failure-structure-before-scoring-abstention TEC-0284 · proposedProbe failure structure before scoring abstention
Re-run an answer under visual degradation, blank-image replacement, and grounding/relation swaps to produce a three-coordinate signature used for failure-family diagnosis and to pick a matched correction prompt, rather than as an abstention
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Re-run an answer under visual degradation, blank-image replacement, and grounding/relation swaps to produce a three-coordinate signature used for failure-family diagnosis and to pick a matched correction prompt, rather than as an abstention Filed by the drafting stage from HalluPrism: When Multimodal Uncertainty Should Diagnose, Not Decide (2608.29193) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Pooled XGBoost failure-family AUROC over 58,440 examples rose from 0.78 with scalar confidence to 0.95 with the signature and 0.97 with confidence added; per-dataset gains 0.634 to 0.769 on HallusionBench and 0.707 to 0.817 on VizWiz, near-neutral on VSR. Abstention AUROC fell under all three scalarizations (e.g. Qwen3-VL 0.81 to 0.73). Matched correction routing beat a generic prompt in 10 of 16 settings and cut break rate 15.5% to 2.7% on Qwen3-VL/VSR.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.
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