Open-Vocabulary Vision Models as Agentic Infrastructure: What Breaks When Grounding Fails
How open-vocabulary detection and segmentation models become grounding infrastructure for AI agents — and where that grounding silently fails.
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Computing Research · Est. 2007
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