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5 papers

cs.CV2026

VKnowU: Evaluating Visual Knowledge Understanding in Multimodal LLMs

Tianxiang Jiang, Sheng Xia, Yicheng Xu +5

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have become adept at recognizing objects, they often lack the intuitive, human-like understanding of the world's underlying physical…

cs.AI2025

Creativity or Brute Force? Using Brainteasers as a Window into the Problem-Solving Abilities of Large Language Models

Simeng Han, Howard Dai, Stephen Xia +7

Accuracy remains a standard metric for evaluating AI systems, but it offers limited insight into how models arrive at their solutions. In this work, we introduce a benchmark based…

cs.LG2025

EasyFS: an Efficient Model-free Feature Selection Framework via Elastic Transformation of Features

Jianming Lv, Sijun Xia, Depin Liang +1

Traditional model-free feature selection methods treat each feature independently while disregarding the interrelationships among features, which leads to relatively poor performan…

cs.LG2025

Optimal Pricing for Data-Augmented AutoML Marketplaces

Minbiao Han, Jonathan Light, Steven Xia +3

Organizations often lack sufficient data to effectively train machine learning (ML) models, while others possess valuable data that remains underutilized. Data markets promise to u…

cs.LG2025

TW-CRL: Time-Weighted Contrastive Reward Learning for Efficient Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Yuxuan Li, Yicheng Gao, Ning Yang +1

Episodic tasks in Reinforcement Learning (RL) often pose challenges due to sparse reward signals and high-dimensional state spaces, which hinder efficient learning. Additionally, t…