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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Can VLMs Reason Robustly? A Neuro-Symbolic Investigation

Weixin Chen, Antonio Vergari, Han Zhao

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been applied to a wide range of reasoning tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they can reason robustly under distribution shifts. In this paper…

cs.LG2026

Causal Neural Probabilistic Circuits

Weixin Chen, Han Zhao

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of end-to-end neural networks by introducing a layer of concepts and predicting the class label from the concept predi…

cs.CL2026

Not All Tokens Matter Equally: Dynamic In-context Vector Distillation with Decisive-Token Supervision for Long-form Medical Report Generation

Ning Wu, Rui Liu, Xinkun Lin +5

Distilling demonstration effects into hidden-space interventions offers a lightweight alternative to full finetuning. However, existing multimodal variants are mostly evaluated on…

cs.LG2025

Understanding and Improving Adversarial Robustness of Neural Probabilistic Circuits

Weixin Chen, Han Zhao

Neural Probabilistic Circuits (NPCs), a new class of concept bottleneck models, comprise an attribute recognition model and a probabilistic circuit for reasoning. By integrating th…

cs.LG2025

Neural Probabilistic Circuits: Enabling Compositional and Interpretable Predictions through Logical Reasoning

Weixin Chen, Simon Yu, Huajie Shao +2

End-to-end deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various domains but are often criticized for their lack of interpretability. While post hoc explanation meth…