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  "citation": "Bhat, Z. P., Nayyar, N., Jain, A., Chan, L. F., Suchanek, J., Wang, Y., Praveen, V., Kornuta, T., & Murali, V. N. (2026). VANTAGE-Bench: Evaluating the Infrastructure AI Gap in Vision-Language Models. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Evaluations & Datasets Track.",
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