Xiaoxu Cai

CAER: Conflict-Aware Evidence Routing with Dual Prefix Experts for Multimodal Large Language Models

CAER introduces a span-grounded evidence router that transforms claim representations into soft textual queries and retrieves corresponding evidence from frozen visual tokens, enabling fine-grained conflict estimation and design a dual-prefix expert routing mechanism that learns separate experts for visually supported and contradicted inputs, enabling conflict-aware generation through explicit expert selection.