AnswerMap provides black-box spatial interpretability for VLMs
September 27, 2026
AnswerMap is a training-free, task-agnostic method for generating spatial rationales from VLM output heads. By analyzing yes/no posteriors across image bands, it creates continuous spatial maps without requiring white-box access or text-based rationales.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can implement visual grounding and interpretability for frozen VLMs without retraining.
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designerThis allows for better visualization of why a model is focusing on specific image regions.