The Expense of Seeing: Attaining Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning Within the Monolithic Paradigm

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The rapid proliferation of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is often framed as enabling unified multimodal knowledge discovery but rests on an under-examined assumption: that current VLMs faithfully synthesise multimodal data. We argue they often do not, and this gap reflects a trustworthiness probl...