VLMs frequently switch away from a target visual path to nearby similar distractors in controlled tracing tasks, with standard scaling, reasoning, and instruction interventions providing only partial mitigation.
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VLMs Trace Without Tracking: Diagnosing Failures in Visual Path Following
VLMs frequently switch away from a target visual path to nearby similar distractors in controlled tracing tasks, with standard scaling, reasoning, and instruction interventions providing only partial mitigation.