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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Multimodal Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning

Jiayu Yao, Yiwei Wang, Anmeng Zhang +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used to align multimodal large language models (MLLMs), but higher rewards do not always imply better task performance. This risk is amp…

cs.AI2026

SAFARI: Scaling Long Horizon Agentic Fault Attribution via Active Investigation

Chenyang Zhu, Jiayu Yao, Kushal Chawla +10

As autonomous agents tackle increasingly complex multi-step, multi-agent tasks, their execution trajectories have scaled beyond the constraints of even the largest context windows.…

cs.CV2026

HighlightBench: Benchmarking Markup-Driven Table Reasoning in Scientific Documents

Lexin Wang, Shenghua Liu, Yiwei Wang +5

Visual markups such as highlights, underlines, and bold text are common in table-centric documents. Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made substantial progress…

cs.CL2026

PRISM-: Differential Subspace Steering for Prompt Highlighting in Large Language Models

Yuyao Ge, Shenghua Liu, Yiwei Wang +6

Prompt highlighting steers a large language model to prioritize user-specified text spans during generation. A key challenge of existing Key-editing approaches is extracting steeri…

cs.SD2026

AudioMotionBench: Evaluating Auditory Motion Perception in Audio LLMs

Zhe Sun, Yujun Cai, Jiayu Yao +1

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have recently shown impressive progress in speech recognition, audio captioning, and auditory question answering. Yet, whether these models can…

cs.CL2026

Gated Differentiable Working Memory for Long-Context Language Modeling

Lingrui Mei, Shenghua Liu, Yiwei Wang +7

Long contexts challenge transformers: attention scores dilute across thousands of tokens, critical information is often lost in the middle, and models struggle to adapt to novel pa…