Large Language Models Facilitate Vision Reflection in Image Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06525v1
• Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 03:34:42 GMT
• Title: Large Language Models Facilitate Vision Reflection in Image Classification
• Authors: Guoyuan An, JaeYoon Kim, SungEui Yoon,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents novel findings on the explainability of vision reflection in large multimodal models (LMMs)<n>We show that prompting an LMM to verify the prediction of a specialized vision model can improve recognition accuracy, even on benchmarks like ImageNet.<n>Third, we show that a training-free connector can enhance LMM performance in fine-grained recognition tasks, without extensive feature-alignment training.
• Score: 17.41675650968567
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents several novel findings on the explainability of vision reflection in large multimodal models (LMMs). First, we show that prompting an LMM to verify the prediction of a specialized vision model can improve recognition accuracy, even on benchmarks like ImageNet, despite prior evidence that LMMs typically underperform dedicated vision encoders. Second, we analyze the internal behavior of vision reflection and find that the vision-language connector maps visual features into explicit textual concepts, allowing the language model to reason about prediction plausibility using commonsense knowledge. We further observe that replacing a large number of vision tokens with only a few text tokens still enables LLaVA to generate similar answers, suggesting that LMMs may rely primarily on a compact set of distilled textual representations rather than raw vision features. Third, we show that a training-free connector can enhance LMM performance in fine-grained recognition tasks, without extensive feature-alignment training. Together, these findings offer new insights into the explainability of vision-language models and suggest that vision reflection is a promising strategy for achieving robust and interpretable visual recognition.

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