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Publications (31)

cs.DS2024

A Threshold Greedy Algorithm for Noisy Submodular Maximization

Wenjing Chen, Shuo Xing, Victoria G. Crawford

We consider the maximization of a submodular objective function , where the objective is not accessed as a value oracle but instead subject to nois…

cs.CV2025

Q-Router: Agentic Video Quality Assessment with Expert Model Routing and Artifact Localization

Shuo Xing, Soumik Dey, Mingyang Wu +5

Video quality assessment (VQA) is a fundamental computer vision task that aims to predict the perceptual quality of a given video in alignment with human judgments. Existing perfor…

cs.LG2026

KANMixer: a minimal KAN-centered mixer for long-term time series forecasting

Lingyu Jiang, Dengzhe Hou, Yuping Wang +9

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) underpins critical applications from energy management to weather prediction, yet achieving reliable multi-step-ahead accuracy remains chal…

cs.LG2026

TimePre: Bridging Accuracy, Efficiency, and Stability in Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting

Lingyu Jiang, Lingyu Xu, Peiran Li +14

We propose TimePre, a simple framework that unifies the efficiency of Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)-based models with the distributional flexibility of Multiple Choice Learning (MCL)…

cs.AI2025

V2X-UniPool: Unifying Multimodal Perception and Knowledge Reasoning for Autonomous Driving

Xuewen Luo, Fengze Yang, Fan Ding +5

Autonomous driving (AD) has achieved significant progress, yet single-vehicle perception remains constrained by sensing range and occlusions. Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communicat…

cs.CV2025

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment: Methods and Results

Yixiao Li, Xin Li, Chris Wei Zhou +28

This paper presents the ISRGC-Q Challenge, built upon the Image Super-Resolution Generated Content Quality Assessment (ISRGen-QA) dataset, and organized as part of the Visual Quali…

cs.CV2026

AutoTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness in Large Vision Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Shuo Xing, Hongyuan Hua, Xiangbo Gao +10

Recent advancements in large vision language models (VLMs) tailored for autonomous driving (AD) have shown strong scene understanding and reasoning capabilities, making them undeni…

cs.LG2024

Fair Submodular Cover

Wenjing Chen, Shuo Xing, Samson Zhou +1

Submodular optimization is a fundamental problem with many applications in machine learning, often involving decision-making over datasets with sensitive attributes such as gender…

eess.IV2024

Video Quality Assessment: A Comprehensive Survey

Qi Zheng, Yibo Fan, Leilei Huang +8

Video quality assessment (VQA) is an important processing task, aiming at predicting the quality of videos in a manner highly consistent with human judgments of perceived quality.…

cs.CL2026

AdaptFuse: Training-Free Sequential Preference Learning via Externalized Bayesian Inference

Fangzhou Lin, Peiran Li, Shuo Xing +6

Large language models struggle to accumulate evidence across multiple rounds of user interaction, failing to update their beliefs in a manner consistent with Bayesian inference. Ex…

cs.CV2025

Demystifying the Visual Quality Paradox in Multimodal Large Language Models

Shuo Xing, Lanqing Guo, Hongyuan Hua +5

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel on benchmark vision-language tasks, yet little is known about how input visual quality shapes their responses. Does higher per…

cs.CV2026

Let the Abyss Stare Back Adaptive Falsification for Autonomous Scientific Discovery

Peiran Li, Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing +5

Autonomous scientific discovery is entering a more dangerous regime: once the evaluator is frozen, a sufficiently strong search process can learn to win the exam without learning t…

cs.CV2025

OpenEMMA: Open-Source Multimodal Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Shuo Xing, Chengyuan Qian, Yuping Wang +4

Since the advent of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), they have made a significant impact across a wide range of real-world applications, particularly in Autonomous Driving…

cs.LG2024

Plum: Prompt Learning using Metaheuristic

Rui Pan, Shuo Xing, Shizhe Diao +6

Since the emergence of large language models, prompt learning has become a popular method for optimizing and customizing these models. Special prompts, such as Chain-of-Thought, ha…

cs.AI2026

CAPS: Cascaded Adaptive Pairwise Selection for Efficient Parallel Reasoning

Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing, Peiran Li +6

Parallel reasoning, where a generator samples many candidate solutions and an aggregator selects the best, is one of the most effective forms of test-time scaling in large language…

cs.AI2026

Does RLVR Extend Reasoning Boundaries? Investigating Capability Expansion in Vision-Language Models

Minghe Shen, Zhuo Zhi, Chonghan Liu +3

Recent studies posit that Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) primarily amplifies behaviors inherent to the pre-training distribution rather than inducing new cap…

cs.CV2026

ConsID-Gen: View-Consistent and Identity-Preserving Image-to-Video Generation

Mingyang Wu, Ashirbad Mishra, Soumik Dey +5

Image-to-Video generation (I2V) animates a static image into a temporally coherent video sequence following textual instructions, yet preserving fine-grained object identity under…

cs.CV2025

Re-Align: Aligning Vision Language Models via Retrieval-Augmented Direct Preference Optimization

Shuo Xing, Peiran Li, Yuping Wang +6

The emergence of large Vision Language Models (VLMs) has broadened the scope and capabilities of single-modal Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating visual modalities, thereby…

cs.CV2025

Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities

Yuping Wang, Shuo Xing, Cui Can +44

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) constitutes a transformative technological wave that reconfigures industries through its unparalleled capabilities for content creation,…

cs.CV2026

CV-Arena: An Open Benchmark for Instructional Computer Vision Problem Solving with Human-AI Collaborative Preferences

Fangzhou Lin, Peiran Li, Lingyu Xu +12

Instruction-guided image editing is becoming a general interface for visual work, yet existing benchmarks still focus largely on narrow appearance edits and do not fully capture th…

cs.AI2025

SAFEFLOW: A Principled Protocol for Trustworthy and Transactional Autonomous Agent Systems

Peiran Li, Xinkai Zou, Zhuohang Wu +9

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled powerful autonomous agents capable of complex reasoning and multi-modal tool use. Des…

cs.DL2026

BibAgent: An Agentic Framework for Traceable Miscitation Detection in Scientific Literature

Peiran Li, Fangzhou Lin, Shuo Xing +6

Citations are the bedrock of scientific authority, yet their integrity is compromised by widespread miscitations: ranging from nuanced distortions to fabricated references. Systema…

cs.CV2025

Can Large Vision Language Models Read Maps Like a Human?

Shuo Xing, Zezhou Sun, Shuangyu Xie +6

In this paper, we introduce MapBench-the first dataset specifically designed for human-readable, pixel-based map-based outdoor navigation, curated from complex path finding scenari…

cs.CV2026

DecAlign: Hierarchical Cross-Modal Alignment for Decoupled Multimodal Representation Learning

Chengxuan Qian, Shuo Xing, Shawn Li +2

Multimodal representation learning aims to capture both shared and complementary semantic information across multiple modalities. However, the intrinsic heterogeneity of diverse mo…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Submodular Reward

Wenjing Chen, Chengyuan Qian, Shuo Xing +2

In this paper, we study cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) where the joint reward exhibits submodularity, which is a natural property capturing diminishing margi…

cs.CL2026

LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot": A Pilot Study on Twitter/X

Shuo Xing, Junyuan Hong, Yifan Wang +5

We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To unveil junk effects, we…

cs.AI2026

PathCal: State-Aware Reflection-Marker Calibration for Efficient Reasoning

Lingyu Jiang, Zirui Li, Shuo Xing +6

The emergence of Large Reasoning Language Models (LRMs) has paved the way for tackling complex reasoning tasks through test-time scaling by generating long-form Chain-of-Thought (C…

cs.LG2026

Traversal-as-Policy: Log-Distilled Gated Behavior Trees as Externalized, Verifiable Policies for Safe, Robust, and Efficient Agents

Peiran Li, Jiashuo Sun, Fangzhou Lin +5

Autonomous LLM agents fail because long-horizon policy remains implicit in model weights and transcripts, while safety is retrofitted post hoc. We propose Traversal-as-Policy: dist…

cs.AI2026

Position: Human-Centric AI Requires a Minimum Viable Level of Human Understanding

Fangzhou Lin, Qianwen Ge, Lingyu Xu +7

AI systems increasingly produce fluent, correct, end-to-end outcomes. Over time, this erodes users' ability to explain, verify, or intervene. We define this divergence as the Capab…

cs.CV2025

UniOcc: A Unified Benchmark for Occupancy Forecasting and Prediction in Autonomous Driving

Yuping Wang, Xiangyu Huang, Xiaokang Sun +4

We introduce UniOcc, a comprehensive, unified benchmark and toolkit for occupancy forecasting (i.e., predicting future occupancies based on historical information) and occupancy pr…

cs.AI2025

mRAG: Elucidating the Design Space of Multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Chan-Wei Hu, Yueqi Wang, Shuo Xing +4

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made remarkable strides in multimodal tasks such as visual question answering, visual grounding, and complex reasoning. However, they rema…