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arxiv: 2606.05409 · v3 · pith:WVDQEUGYnew · submitted 2026-06-03 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.CL

Would you still call this Dax? Novel Visual References in VLMs and Humans

Ada Defne T\"ur , Gaurav Kamath , Joyce Chai , Siva Reddy , Benno Krojer This is my paper

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The pith

Vision-language models struggle to acquire novel visual concepts in context when they contradict prior knowledge and overgeneralize more than humans.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces the Novel Visual References Dataset (NVRD) with 19,176 images across 90 new visual concepts and up to 20 perturbed versions each, all built from scratch to test in-context mapping of novel visuals to language. It evaluates several VLMs against 2,400 human judgments and finds that models have trouble learning these concepts when they clash with pre-training, even as both models and humans track visual changes in similar ways. Models extend the new labels to many more perturbed images than humans accept. This setup matters because it isolates how current systems handle genuinely new visual information that conflicts with what they already know, unlike tests on familiar objects.

Core claim

The authors claim that vision-language models struggle to acquire novel concepts in-context when they contradict prior knowledge, and while models and humans show correlated sensitivity to visual perturbations, models significantly overgeneralize, extending learned labels to stimuli that humans reject, as shown through evaluations on the NVRD dataset.

What carries the argument

The Novel Visual References Dataset (NVRD), a set of entirely novel visual concepts constructed from scratch with increasing perturbations to measure in-context acquisition and generalization boundaries.

If this is right

  • Models will underperform on acquiring labels for new objects that clash with pre-trained knowledge.
  • Sensitivity to visual perturbations will correlate between models and humans, yet models will accept a wider range of variants.
  • NVRD provides a benchmark for testing visual concept learning that avoids familiar objects.
  • In-context adaptation in VLMs faces limits when new information directly conflicts with existing representations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Training methods may need explicit ways to override or compartmentalize conflicting prior knowledge during in-context updates.
  • Real-world uses like robotics or interactive systems could face repeated failures when encountering truly new objects.
  • The gap might narrow if models incorporate uncertainty estimates that better match human rejection thresholds.
  • Extending the approach to video or multimodal sequences could reveal whether the overgeneralization pattern holds over time.

Load-bearing premise

The constructed concepts in NVRD genuinely contradict models' pre-training and the human judgments form a reliable baseline for comparison.

What would settle it

A test where models acquire the novel labels in context and restrict them to exactly the same perturbed images that humans accept would falsify the overgeneralization claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.05409 by Ada Defne T\"ur, Benno Krojer, Gaurav Kamath, Joyce Chai, Siva Reddy.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Task setup overview: On the left-hand side are examples of visual comparisons and nonce references [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the creation pipeline for NVRD. On the left-most column, we present examples of the four [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Nonce vs. vanilla label responses across models and object categories. We find: Models adopt a nonce [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Model results on both the multi-image name generation and log probability settings across object [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Human and model ratings on the subset of perturbation types that show a clear degradation at strong [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Example base images from each of the four entity categories in NVRD. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Example perturbation sequences from NVRD. Each row shows an original base image and four increas [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Example prompt compositions used to generate novel entities. Each row shows a unique design [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Example trial human participants observed during our study. Participants see the original image (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Sample of objects and perturbations from NVRD across the four object categories (Known, Shape [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Nonce vs. vanilla label responses across models and perturbation levels. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Nonce vs. vanilla label responses across models and perturbation types. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Model nonce reference usage across perturbation types and levels. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Model nonce z-scored log probabilities across perturbation types and levels. 5 10 15 20 Perturbation Level 0.2 0.0 0.2 Z-Scored Log-Prob Known 5 10 15 20 Perturbation Level Shape-Texture 5 10 15 20 Perturbation Level Shape-Shape 5 10 15 20 Perturbation Level Novel Idefics3 8B Molmo2 8B Qwen2-VL 7B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Model nonce reference z-scored log probabilities across object categories and perturbation levels. F.3 Likert Rating Results Figures 16 and 17 show model Likert-scale ratings broken down by perturbation type and object cate￾gory, respectively. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Model ratings across perturbation types and levels. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Model ratings across object categories and perturbation levels. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Human–model rating comparison across object categories and perturbation types. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Human–model rating comparison across perturbation types. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Scatterplot of human vs. model mean ratings across perturbation types and levels. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Scatterplot of human vs. model mean ratings across object categories and perturbation types. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Human–model rating bar plot comparison across object categories, perturbation types, and perturbation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Model performance and ratings as a function of visual similarity between each original and perturbed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Qwen-2 VL 7B performance across pool composition strategies: random, color similarity, and visual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_24.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Qwen-2 VL 7B responses on the ablated “failure case” trials, by object category. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Heatmap of Qwen-2 VL 7B responses on the ablated “failure case” trials, by object category. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_26.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Vision-language models (VLMs), like human learners, are frequently exposed to new visual concepts, but how they map novel visual references to language after exposure remains largely underexplored, particularly when those references contradict prior knowledge from pre-training. To study this, we present the Novel Visual References Dataset (NVRD): 19,176 images spanning 90 visual concepts across different levels of visual novelty, each with up to 20 increasingly perturbed versions of the original object to probe generalization. Unlike prior work on visual augmentations of familiar concepts, NVRD comprises entirely novel, open-ended stimuli constructed from scratch, mirroring how humans encounter genuinely new concepts. We evaluate 3 open- and 2 closed-source models alongside 2,400 human judgments for direct human-model comparison, and find that (i) models struggle to acquire novel concepts in-context when they contradict prior knowledge, and (ii) while models and humans show correlated sensitivity to visual perturbations, models significantly overgeneralize, extending learned labels to stimuli that humans reject. We contribute NVRD as a corpus and benchmark for research on visual concept learning in both humans and machines.

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces the Novel Visual References Dataset (NVRD) comprising 19,176 images across 90 visual concepts, each with up to 20 perturbed versions, constructed as entirely novel stimuli. It evaluates three open-source and two closed-source VLMs against 2,400 human judgments on in-context learning of these concepts, reporting that models struggle to acquire novel concepts contradicting prior knowledge and that models overgeneralize relative to humans despite correlated sensitivity to visual perturbations.

Significance. If the results hold after verification that the concepts lie outside pre-training distributions, the contribution of NVRD as a benchmark would be useful for studying differences in visual concept acquisition between VLMs and humans.

major comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that models 'struggle to acquire novel concepts in-context when they contradict prior knowledge' requires that the 90 base concepts are outside the models' pre-training distribution. No verification is reported (zero-shot accuracy on unperturbed base images, nearest-neighbor distances in embedding space to LAION/ImageNet classes, or human-model agreement rates on the originals). Without this check, the observed effects cannot be distinguished from ordinary recognition failure.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract states 'up to 20 increasingly perturbed versions' per concept but provides no details on the perturbation generation process, the exact number of versions per concept, or how perturbation levels were calibrated.
  2. The number of human participants and the exact protocol for collecting the 2,400 judgments (e.g., trial structure, exclusion criteria) are not summarized.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed review and for highlighting an important point regarding verification of concept novelty. We address the major comment below and commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that models 'struggle to acquire novel concepts in-context when they contradict prior knowledge' requires that the 90 base concepts are outside the models' pre-training distribution. No verification is reported (zero-shot accuracy on unperturbed base images, nearest-neighbor distances in embedding space to LAION/ImageNet classes, or human-model agreement rates on the originals). Without this check, the observed effects cannot be distinguished from ordinary recognition failure.

    Authors: We agree that explicit verification is necessary to distinguish in-context acquisition difficulties from simple recognition failures on the base concepts. The manuscript describes the 90 concepts as 'entirely novel stimuli constructed from scratch' and contrasts them with prior work on augmentations of familiar concepts, but does not report the specific checks suggested (zero-shot accuracy on unperturbed images, embedding distances to LAION/ImageNet, or human-model agreement on the originals). We will add these analyses to the revised version, including zero-shot VLM performance on the base images and nearest-neighbor analyses where computationally feasible, to directly support the central claim. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical dataset construction and evaluation with no derivations or self-referential fits

full rationale

The paper presents an empirical benchmark (NVRD) consisting of 90 novel visual concepts and perturbed images, evaluated via model inference and 2400 human judgments. No equations, parameter fits, uniqueness theorems, or derivations appear in the provided text. Claims of novelty rest on construction statements rather than any self-referential reduction (e.g., no fitted parameter is relabeled as a prediction, and no self-citation chain supports a load-bearing premise). The central findings on model overgeneralization are direct experimental outcomes, not tautological restatements of inputs. This is a standard non-circular empirical study.

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