VLMs use Hungarian word order to mark Topic and Focus but drastically underproduce the variable strategies humans show under conflicting discourse pressures, resembling mode collapse.
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When Discourse Pressures Conflict: Information Structure in Vision-Language Model Outputs
VLMs use Hungarian word order to mark Topic and Focus but drastically underproduce the variable strategies humans show under conflicting discourse pressures, resembling mode collapse.