Does Language Shift Break Medical Vision-Language Models? An Indonesian Radiology VQA Case Study
Built an Indonesian version of VQA-RAD and benchmarked general, multilingual and medical VLMs on English vs. Bahasa Indonesia prompts. Accuracy drops 8–25% in Indonesian, with systematic errors such as yes/no flips, left/right mix-ups and answers in the wrong language. Accepted at the CVPR 2026 MMFM-BIOMED Workshop. [paper]
