ACL2026
How Do LLMs and VLMs Understand Viewpoint Rotation Without Vision? An Interpretability Study
Zhen Yang, Ping Jian, Zhongbin Guo, Zuming Zhang, Chengzhi Li, Yonghong Deng, Xinyue Zhang, Wenpeng Lu
Abstract
Table!! Unknown Figure 1 : For textual viewpoint rotation understanding, human can easily imagine the spatial scenario and achieve 100% accuracy, while LLMs and VLMs struggle to output the correct answer.