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2026-08-03
arxiv.org
artificial-intelligence
Adjudicated Captioning: Multi-Agent Alignment Scoring and Consensus-Distilled Beam Arbitration for Strict Zero-Shot Image Captioning
A new inference-time framework, Adjudicated Captioning, achieves CIDEr 117.6 and SPICE 21.9 on the COCO Karpathy test split for zero-shot image captioning, up from 108.0 and 20.3 for the baseline IFCa…