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Part Grounding, Not Action Knowledge: Locating the Bottleneck in VLM Affordance Prediction

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arXiv:2609.13225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks agree that vision-language models reason poorly about low-level manipulation, but an aggregate accuracy score does not say which step fails. We separate two steps that affordance questions conflate: identifying which part of an object to ac…

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  1. 2026-09-15 04:00 · arXiv cs.CV
    Part Grounding, Not Action Knowledge: Locating the Bottleneck in VLM Affordance Prediction

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