A VLM that reads an invoice wrong and a VLM that reads it right and reasons wrong produce the same end-to-end score, and they need opposite fixes. Here is how to decompose a multimodal eval, build the set from real traffic, and probe for the hallucinations that accuracy never catches.
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A VLM that reads an invoice wrong and a VLM that reads it right and reasons wrong produce the same end-to-end score, and they need opposite fixes. Here is how to decompose a multimodal eval, build the set from real traffic, and probe for the hallucinations that accuracy never catches.
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