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Publications (55)

cs.CL2024

MIKO: Multimodal Intention Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models for Social-Media Commonsense Discovery

Feihong Lu, Weiqi Wang, Yangyifei Luo +8

Social media has become a ubiquitous tool for connecting with others, staying updated with news, expressing opinions, and finding entertainment. However, understanding the intentio…

cs.LG2026

RLPF: Reinforcement Learning from Performance Feedback for Code Generation

Huihao Jing, Haozhe Cui, Wenbin Hu +9

The paper introduces RLPF, a reinforcement‑learning approach that uses staged performance feedback to train code‑generation models to produce not only correct programs but also fas…

#reinforcement learning#code generation#performance optimization#execution feedback
cs.CL2025

The Curse of CoT: On the Limitations of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning

Tianshi Zheng, Yixiang Chen, Chengxi Li +7

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has been widely recognized for its ability to enhance reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). However, our study reveals a surprisi…

cs.AI2025

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems

Bang Liu, Xinfeng Li, Jiayi Zhang +45

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has catalyzed a transformative shift in artificial intelligence, paving the way for advanced intelligent agents capable of sophisticated…

cs.AI2022

BOSS: Bottom-up Cross-modal Semantic Composition with Hybrid Counterfactual Training for Robust Content-based Image Retrieval

Wenqiao Zhang, Jiannan Guo, Mengze Li +5

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search for a target image by concurrently comprehending the composition of an example image and a complementary text, which potentially…

cs.LG2025

A Pre-trained Data Deduplication Model based on Active Learning

Haochen Shi, Xinyao Liu, Fengmao Lv +4

In the era of big data, the issue of data quality has become increasingly prominent. One of the main challenges is the problem of duplicate data, which can arise from repeated entr…

cs.CL2025

On the Role of Entity and Event Level Conceptualization in Generalizable Reasoning: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, Applications, and Future Directions

Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Haochen Shi +8

Conceptualization, a fundamental element of human cognition, plays a pivotal role in human generalizable reasoning. Generally speaking, it refers to the process of sequentially abs…

cs.RO2022

RoboCraft: Learning to See, Simulate, and Shape Elasto-Plastic Objects with Graph Networks

Haochen Shi, Huazhe Xu, Zhiao Huang +2

Modeling and manipulating elasto-plastic objects are essential capabilities for robots to perform complex industrial and household interaction tasks (e.g., stuffing dumplings, roll…

cs.CL2021

Empower Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction with Collaborative Adversarial Training

Tao Chen, Haochen Shi, Liyuan Liu +4

With recent advances in distantly supervised (DS) relation extraction (RE), considerable attention is attracted to leverage multi-instance learning (MIL) to distill high-quality su…

cs.RO2025

ToddlerBot: Open-Source ML-Compatible Humanoid Platform for Loco-Manipulation

Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang, Shuran Song +1

Learning-based robotics research driven by data demands a new approach to robot hardware design-one that serves as both a platform for policy execution and a tool for embodied data…

cs.AI2024

Enhancing Agent Learning through World Dynamics Modeling

Zhiyuan Sun, Haochen Shi, Marc-Alexandre Côté +3

Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly applied to tasks in language understanding and interactive decision-making, with their impressive performance largely attributed…

cs.RO2024

DexCap: Scalable and Portable Mocap Data Collection System for Dexterous Manipulation

Chen Wang, Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang +3

Imitation learning from human hand motion data presents a promising avenue for imbuing robots with human-like dexterity in real-world manipulation tasks. Despite this potential, su…

cs.AI2024

OPEx: A Component-Wise Analysis of LLM-Centric Agents in Embodied Instruction Following

Haochen Shi, Zhiyuan Sun, Xingdi Yuan +2

Embodied Instruction Following (EIF) is a crucial task in embodied learning, requiring agents to interact with their environment through egocentric observations to fulfill natural…

cs.CV2022

Consensus Graph Representation Learning for Better Grounded Image Captioning

Wenqiao Zhang, Haochen Shi, Siliang Tang +3

The contemporary visual captioning models frequently hallucinate objects that are not actually in a scene, due to the visual misclassification or over-reliance on priors that resul…

cs.RO2025

Robot Trains Robot: Automatic Real-World Policy Adaptation and Learning for Humanoids

Kaizhe Hu, Haochen Shi, Yao He +3

Simulation-based reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly advanced humanoid locomotion tasks, yet direct real-world RL from scratch or adapting from pretrained policies remain…

cs.CL2026

History-Guided Iterative Visual Reasoning with Self-Correction

Xinglong Yang, Zhilin Peng, Zhanzhan Liu +2

Self-consistency methods are the core technique for improving the reasoning reliability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). By generating multiple reasoning results throug…

cs.AI2026

MultivationBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Sequential Motivation Reasoning

Kawai Chung, Chunkit Chan, Yauwai Yim +12

The paper introduces MultivationBench, a benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on their ability to reason about evolving human motivations across sequential visual…

#multimodal reasoning#motivation inference#sequential reasoning#visual narratives
cs.CL2025

Safety Compliance: Rethinking LLM Safety Reasoning through the Lens of Compliance

Wenbin Hu, Huihao Jing, Haochen Shi +2

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities, elevating the critical importance of LLM safety. However, existing safety methods rely o…

cs.CL2025

INFERENCEDYNAMICS: Efficient Routing Across LLMs through Structured Capability and Knowledge Profiling

Haochen Shi, Tianshi Zheng, Weiqi Wang +6

Large Language Model (LLM) routing is a pivotal technique for navigating a diverse landscape of LLMs, aiming to select the best-performing LLMs tailored to the domains of user quer…

cs.CL2025

LogiDynamics: Unraveling the Dynamics of Inductive, Abductive and Deductive Logical Inferences in LLM Reasoning

Tianshi Zheng, Jiayang Cheng, Chunyang Li +6

Modern large language models (LLMs) employ diverse logical inference mechanisms for reasoning, making the strategic optimization of these approaches critical for advancing their ca…

cs.CL2025

Towards Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems for Collaborative Expertise Delegation: An Exploratory Design Study

Baixuan Xu, Chunyang Li, Weiqi Wang +6

Designing effective collaboration structure for multi-agent LLM systems to enhance collective reasoning is crucial yet remains under-explored. In this paper, we systematically inve…

cs.RO2024

RoboPack: Learning Tactile-Informed Dynamics Models for Dense Packing

Bo Ai, Stephen Tian, Haochen Shi +4

Tactile feedback is critical for understanding the dynamics of both rigid and deformable objects in many manipulation tasks, such as non-prehensile manipulation and dense packing.…

cs.RO2026

Locomotion Beyond Feet

Tae Hoon Yang, Haochen Shi, Jiacheng Hu +10

Most locomotion methods for humanoid robots focus on leg-based gaits, yet natural bipeds frequently rely on hands, knees, and elbows to establish additional contacts for stability…

cs.RO2023

RoboCook: Long-Horizon Elasto-Plastic Object Manipulation with Diverse Tools

Haochen Shi, Huazhe Xu, Samuel Clarke +2

Humans excel in complex long-horizon soft body manipulation tasks via flexible tool use: bread baking requires a knife to slice the dough and a rolling pin to flatten it. Often reg…

cs.CV2021

Adaptive Hierarchical Graph Reasoning with Semantic Coherence for Video-and-Language Inference

Juncheng Li, Siliang Tang, Linchao Zhu +5

Video-and-Language Inference is a recently proposed task for joint video-and-language understanding. This new task requires a model to draw inference on whether a natural language…

cs.CL2026

OmniCompliance-100K: A Multi-Domain, Rule-Grounded, Real-World Safety Compliance Dataset

Wenbin Hu, Huihao Jing, Haochen Shi +3

Ensuring the safety and compliance of large language models (LLMs) is of paramount importance. However, existing LLM safety datasets often rely on ad-hoc taxonomies for data genera…

cs.CL2024

CANDLE: Iterative Conceptualization and Instantiation Distillation from Large Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning

Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Chunyang Li +9

The sequential process of conceptualization and instantiation is essential to generalizable commonsense reasoning as it allows the application of existing knowledge to unfamiliar s…

cs.SE2026

PerfCodeBench: Benchmarking LLMs for System-Level High-Performance Code Optimization

Huihao Jing, Wenbin Hu, Shaojin Chen +5

The paper introduces PerfCodeBench, an executable benchmark that evaluates how well large language models can generate system-level code that is not only correct but also optimized…

#code generation#performance optimization#benchmarking#parallel computing
cs.RO2021

CollisionIK: A Per-Instant Pose Optimization Method for Generating Robot Motions with Environment Collision Avoidance

Daniel Rakita, Haochen Shi, Bilge Mutlu +1

In this work, we present a per-instant pose optimization method that can generate configurations that achieve specified pose or motion objectives as best as possible over a sequenc…

cs.MA2026

PersonalPlan: Planning Multi-Agent Systems for Personalized Programming Learning

Zhiyuan Wen, Jiannong Cao, Peng Gao +4

Effective programming education requires personalized instruction adapted to diverse learner backgrounds. However, while LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) excel at complex planni…

cs.AI2026

Isolation as a First-Class Principle for LLM-Agent System Safety: Concepts, Taxonomy, Challenges and Future Directions

Huihao Jing, Wenbin Hu, Shaojin Chen +10

The paper surveys how isolating components such as user inputs, tools, execution, inter‑agent communication, and environment can improve safety of LLM‑agent systems, presenting a b…

#llm agents#system safety#isolation#boundary taxonomy
cs.RO2026

Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid

Ruogu Li, Chenyang Ma, Sikai Li +6

Dexterous hands and humanoid robots are typically developed as distinct embodiments: the former enable contact-rich manipulation at the object scale, whereas the latter provide mob…

cs.CL2024

EcomEdit: An Automated E-commerce Knowledge Editing Framework for Enhanced Product and Purchase Intention Understanding

Ching Ming Samuel Lau, Weiqi Wang, Haochen Shi +3

Knowledge Editing (KE) aims to correct and update factual information in Large Language Models (LLMs) to ensure accuracy and relevance without computationally expensive fine-tuning…

cs.CL2024

ActPlan-1K: Benchmarking the Procedural Planning Ability of Visual Language Models in Household Activities

Ying Su, Zhan Ling, Haochen Shi +3

Large language models~(LLMs) have been adopted to process textual task description and accomplish procedural planning in embodied AI tasks because of their powerful reasoning abili…

cs.AI2024

Deciphering Digital Detectives: Understanding LLM Behaviors and Capabilities in Multi-Agent Mystery Games

Dekun Wu, Haochen Shi, Zhiyuan Sun +1

In this study, we explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in \textit{Jubensha}, a Chinese detective role-playing game and a novel area in Artificial Intelligence (A…

cs.CL2026

SurveyLens: A Discipline-Aware Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation

Beichen Guo, Zhiyuan Wen, Jia Gu +6

Automatic Survey Generation (ASG) aims to produce comprehensive literature surveys by retrieving, organizing, and synthesizing academic papers. Despite rapid progress in specialize…

cs.RO2026

Minimalist Compliance Control

Haochen Shi, Songbo Hu, Yifan Hou +3

Compliance control is essential for safe physical interaction, yet its adoption is limited by hardware requirements such as force torque sensors. While recent reinforcement learnin…

cs.CL2025

CritiCal: Can Critique Help LLM Uncertainty or Confidence Calibration?

Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Tianshi Zheng +7

Accurate confidence calibration in Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for safe use in high-stakes domains, where clear verbalized confidence enhances user trust. Traditional…

cs.GR2024

FürElise: Capturing and Physically Synthesizing Hand Motions of Piano Performance

Ruocheng Wang, Pei Xu, Haochen Shi +2

Piano playing requires agile, precise, and coordinated hand control that stretches the limits of dexterity. Hand motion models with the sophistication to accurately recreate piano…

cs.CV2026

DishSeg24k: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Food Segmentation with Stochastic Expert Decoding

Yilin Wang, Haochen Shi, Guanyu Chen +4

Food segmentation is essential for applications such as intelligent catering, dietary assessment, and recommendation. However, existing benchmarks fail to capture the complexity of…

cs.CV2022

Dilated Context Integrated Network with Cross-Modal Consensus for Temporal Emotion Localization in Videos

Juncheng Li, Junlin Xie, Linchao Zhu +8

Understanding human emotions is a crucial ability for intelligent robots to provide better human-robot interactions. The existing works are limited to trimmed video-level emotion c…

cs.CV2025

Robust Modality-incomplete Anomaly Detection: A Modality-instructive Framework with Benchmark

Bingchen Miao, Wenqiao Zhang, Juncheng Li +6

Multimodal Industrial Anomaly Detection (MIAD), which utilizes 3D point clouds and 2D RGB images to identify abnormal regions in products, plays a crucial role in industrial qualit…

cs.CL2024

AbsPyramid: Benchmarking the Abstraction Ability of Language Models with a Unified Entailment Graph

Zhaowei Wang, Haochen Shi, Weiqi Wang +5

Cognitive research indicates that abstraction ability is essential in human intelligence, which remains under-explored in language models. In this paper, we present AbsPyramid, a u…

cs.CL2023

QADYNAMICS: Training Dynamics-Driven Synthetic QA Diagnostic for Zero-Shot Commonsense Question Answering

Haochen Shi, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang +4

Zero-shot commonsense Question-Answering (QA) requires models to reason about general situations beyond specific benchmarks. State-of-the-art approaches fine-tune language models o…

cs.AI2026

Rethinking Prospect Theory for LLMs: Revealing the Instability of Decision-Making under Epistemic Uncertainty

Rui Wang, Qihan Lin, Jiayu Liu +7

Real-world decision-making often involves uncertainty expressed in linguistic rather than numerical terms, and Prospect Theory (PT) provides a classic framework for modeling human…

cs.RO2025

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models

Embodiment Collaboration, Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman +291

Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, thi…

cs.AI2025

TradExpert: Revolutionizing Trading with Mixture of Expert LLMs

Qianggang Ding, Haochen Shi, Jiadong Guo +1

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the financial domain has opened new avenues for quantitative trading, particularly through the use of Large Language Models (LLMs…

cs.AI2023

TILFA: A Unified Framework for Text, Image, and Layout Fusion in Argument Mining

Qing Zong, Zhaowei Wang, Baixuan Xu +6

A main goal of Argument Mining (AM) is to analyze an author's stance. Unlike previous AM datasets focusing only on text, the shared task at the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining int…

cs.CL2026

NOVA: NOise-aware Verbal Confidence CAlibration for Robust Large Language Models in RAG Systems

Jiayu Liu, Rui Wang, Qing Zong +9

Accurately assessing model confidence is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) in mission-critical factual domains. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is wid…

cs.CE2026

TRACE: Temporal Rule-Anchored Chain-of-Evidence on Knowledge Graphs for Interpretable Stock Movement Prediction

Qianggang Ding, Haochen Shi, Luis Castejón Lozano +7

We present a Temporal Rule-Anchored Chain-of-Evidence (TRACE) on knowledge graphs for interpretable stock movement prediction that unifies symbolic relational priors, dynamic graph…

cs.CV2022

MAGIC: Multimodal relAtional Graph adversarIal inferenCe for Diverse and Unpaired Text-based Image Captioning

Wenqiao Zhang, Haochen Shi, Jiannan Guo +5

Text-based image captioning (TextCap) requires simultaneous comprehension of visual content and reading the text of images to generate a natural language description. Although a ta…

cs.AI2026

Evolving Programmatic Skill Networks

Haochen Shi, Xingdi Yuan, Bang Liu

We study continual skill acquisition in open-ended embodied environments where an agent must construct, refine, and reuse an expanding library of executable skills. We introduce th…

cs.CV2023

Phase-Specific Augmented Reality Guidance for Microscopic Cataract Surgery Using Long-Short Spatiotemporal Aggregation Transformer

Puxun Tu, Hongfei Ye, Haochen Shi +6

Phacoemulsification cataract surgery (PCS) is a routine procedure conducted using a surgical microscope, heavily reliant on the skill of the ophthalmologist. While existing PCS gui…

cs.CL2026

SING: Synthetic Intention Graph for Scalable Active Tool Discovery in LLM Agents

Qiao Xiao, Haochen Shi, Yisen Gao +9

Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on agent harnesses that manage context, tools, and multi-turn execution, making tools a central interface for acting in realisti…

cs.CL2024

MIND: Multimodal Shopping Intention Distillation from Large Vision-language Models for E-commerce Purchase Understanding

Baixuan Xu, Weiqi Wang, Haochen Shi +12

Improving user experience and providing personalized search results in E-commerce platforms heavily rely on understanding purchase intention. However, existing methods for acquirin…