VIS Short Papers: Is the Model Even Thinking?

Session chair:Yong Wang

Room:Hall America south

Time:Thursday, Nov 12 @ 08:00 - 09:30 (US/Eastern)

Presentations in this session

08:00 - 08:09

Evaluating a Visual Query Tracer and Builder for Learning Declarative Logic Programming

Authors: Julián Méndez, Lukas Gerlach, Tobias Wieland, Alex Ivliev, Markus Krötzsch, Raimund Dachselt

08:09 - 08:18

Attention Dynamics in Diffusion Models: A Visual Analytics Framework for Human–AI Collaboration

Authors: Yiran Xiao, George Legrady

08:18 - 08:27

VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models

Authors: Suranjana Sooraj, Xuyang Chen, Madhumitha Venkatesan, Dongyu Liu

08:27 - 08:36

Exploring Text Classification Models with Sparse Autoencoders

Authors: Daniel Kerrigan, Brian Barr, Enrico Bertini

08:36 - 08:45

UNIPO: Unified Interactive Visual Explanation for RL Fine-Tuning Policy Optimization

Authors: Aeree Cho, Alexander D Greenhalgh, Jonathan Bodea, ShengYun Peng, Duen Horng Chau

08:45 - 08:54

MLLM Perception of Color-Encoded Scalar Fields Reveals Model-Dependent Inversion of Chain-of-Thought

Authors: Minyi Liu, Yue Zhao, Xiaoyang Song, Shufan Qian, Yulong Bian, Qiong Zeng

08:54 - 09:03

AttentionRadViz: Token-Anchored Attention Profile Visualization for Transformer Head Analysis

Authors: Jared Wilber

09:03 - 09:12

Attention-Guided Saliency Maps for Interpreting Visualization Literacy in VLMs

Authors: Maeve Hutchinson, Abderrahmane Wassim Mehdaoui, Pranava Madhyastha