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Aug 2026
What Do Medical Vision-Language Models Learn in Radiology? Transfer, Alignment, and Source-Proxy Leakage Under Distribution Shift
The study shows that apparent competence under a single protocol can conceal transfer, alignment, and shortcut-related failure modes, motivating stress-tested evaluation of medical VLMs under distribution shift.
A. Bouaziz, Lokmane Chebouba, Yassine Himeur
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