Excited to share that our work on Visual Symbolic Mechanisms has been accepted to ICLR! 🌴🇧🇷

Declan Campbell@thisisadax.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The visual world is composed of objects, and those objects are composed of features. But do VLMs exploit this compositional structure when processing multi-object scenes? In our 🆒🆕 #ICLR2026 paper, we find they do – via emergent symbolic mechanisms for visual binding. 🧵👇