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Do Multimodal Models Decide Consistently on Equivalent Optical Spectra?
arXiv paper testing representation invariance and abstention on measured optical spectra of silicon metasurfaces and gold nanoparticles, evaluating d3-nano, Jev 1.13, three GPT-6 Luna configurations, and Qwen3.5-2B.
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- Each spectrum is shown as four tables (nm, µm, scientific notation, eV) and two plots (nm, eV).
- Changing only the representation moves accuracy by up to 41 percentage points within one model.
- Asking in photon energy instead of wavelength helps some model-view pairs by 16-50 points and hurts others by up to 25.
- LoRA fine-tuning of d3-nano abstains whenever input is truncated; training with answerable truncations avoids that shortcut in all six seeds.
- The tasks, per-response results, and analysis code are released.
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The decision models d3-nano and Jev 1.13, three GPT-6 Luna configurations, and the Qwen3.5-2B base model, tested on measured optical spectra of silicon metasurfaces (MOCLIP) and gold nanoparticles with labels computed from the data.
The same spectrum is presented as four tables (nm, µm, scientific notation, eV) and two plots (nm, eV), and the decision should not depend on which representation the model sees.
Changing only the representation moves accuracy by up to 41 percentage points within one model, mostly on photon-energy tables and plots.
Partial spectra remove data inside or outside the queried range. When the relevant extremum is removed, unadapted models rarely answer "undetermined".
Much of its gain on unanswerable questions came from abstaining whenever the input is truncated. Training with answerable truncations avoided the shortcut in all six seeds.
A 90-100 point gap between abstention after inside and outside cuts on held-out structures. With the same amount of extra original-task data, five of six seeds kept the shortcut.
Yes. The authors release the tasks, the per-response results, and the analysis code.
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