diff --git a/src/supervision/detection/vlm.py b/src/supervision/detection/vlm.py
index 1aa0fb5182..e287dcc1c7 100644
--- a/src/supervision/detection/vlm.py
+++ b/src/supervision/detection/vlm.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def from_paligemma(
     matches = np.array(matches) if matches else np.empty((0, 5))
 
     if matches.shape[0] == 0:
-        return np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0, dtype=str)
+        return np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0, dtype=str)
 
     xyxy, class_name = matches[:, [1, 0, 3, 2]], matches[:, 4]
     xyxy = xyxy.astype(int) / 1024 * np.array([w, h, w, h])
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ def from_google_gemini_2_0(
     try:
         data = json.loads(result)
     except json.JSONDecodeError:
-        return np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty((0,), dtype=str)
+        return np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty((0,), dtype=str)
 
     labels = []
     xyxy = []
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ def from_google_gemini_2_0(
         xyxy.append([box[1], box[0], box[3], box[2]])
 
     if len(xyxy) == 0:
-        return np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty((0,), dtype=str)
+        return np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty((0,), dtype=str)
 
     xyxy = denormalize_boxes(
         np.array(xyxy, dtype=np.float64),
diff --git a/tests/detection/test_vlm.py b/tests/detection/test_vlm.py
index c21679b820..b5d035b065 100644
--- a/tests/detection/test_vlm.py
+++ b/tests/detection/test_vlm.py
@@ -27,49 +27,49 @@
             "",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # empty text
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "",
             (1000, 1000),
             ["cat", "dog"],
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # empty text, classes
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "\n",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # newline only
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # random text, no location
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "<loc0256><loc0768><loc0768> cat",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # partial location
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "<loc0256><loc0256><loc0768><loc0768><loc0768> cat",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # extra loc
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "<loc0256><loc0256><loc0768><loc0768>",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0).astype(str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0).astype(str)),
         ),  # no class
         (
             does_not_raise(),
@@ -436,21 +436,21 @@ def test_from_qwen_2_5_vl(
             "random text",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0, dtype=str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0, dtype=str)),
         ),  # random text without JSON format
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "```json\ninvalid json\n```",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0, dtype=str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0, dtype=str)),
         ),  # invalid JSON within code blocks
         (
             does_not_raise(),
             "```json\n[]\n```",
             (1000, 1000),
             None,
-            (np.empty((0, 4)), None, np.empty(0, dtype=str)),
+            (np.empty((0, 4)), np.empty((0,), dtype=int), np.empty(0, dtype=str)),
         ),  # empty JSON array
         (
             does_not_raise(),