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most citedComposed Multi-modal Retrieval: A Survey of Approaches and Applications

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cs.CV2026

SemComp-Bench: Benchmarking Semantic Task Completion in Video Generation

Keyu Tu, Zhuowei Chen, Mengqi Huang +4

We introduce Semantic Task Completion Video Generation, an outcome-oriented video generation task. Under this formulation, success requires both achievement of the intended outcome…

cs.CV2026

EmoStyle: Affective Conditioning of Style-Specialist Experts for Emotional Image Generation

Dexiang Hong, Yijie Guo, Weidong Chen +4

Emotion-aware artistic image generation requires an image to match the input prompt, follow the specified artistic style, and convey the target emotion. In this challenge, the main…

cs.CV2026

See More, Match Better: Multi-Source Feature Fusion for Two-View Correspondence Learning

Xiaojie Li, Xin Jiang, Luanyuan Dai +3

Two-view correspondence learning aims to distinguish true correspondences (inliers) from false ones (outliers) in image pairs by leveraging their underlying differences. Existing m…

cs.CV2026

Towards Accurate Emotion-Attributed Video Captioning via Fine-grained Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction

Weidong Chen, Cheng Ye, Zhendong Mao +3

Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is a challenging task that aims to generate factually accurate and emotionally rich descriptions for videos. Existing EVC methods leverage holistic…

cs.LG2026

Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models

Huatian Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Lei Zhang +1

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has proven to be an effective solution for mitigating hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by learning from preference pai…

cs.CV2026

Stream-R1: Reliability-Perplexity Aware Reward Distillation for Streaming Video Generation

Bin Wu, Mengqi Huang, Shaojin Wu +4

Distillation-based acceleration has become foundational for making autoregressive streaming video diffusion models practical, with distribution matching distillation (DMD) as the d…

cs.CL2026

Align Documents to Questions: Question-Oriented Document Rewriting for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiaang Li, Zhendong Mao, Quan Wang +2

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances the factuality of Large Language Models (LLMs) by incorporating retrieved documents and/or generated context. However, LLMs often exhi…

cs.CV2026

CreatiParser: Generative Image Parsing of Raster Graphic Designs into Editable Layers

Weidong Chen, Dexiang Hong, Zhendong Mao +4

Graphic design images consist of multiple editable layers, such as text, background, and decorative elements, while most generative models produce rasterized outputs without explic…

cs.CV2026

FACE-net: Factual Calibration and Emotion Augmentation for Retrieval-enhanced Emotional Video Captioning

Weidong Chen, Cheng Ye, Zhendong Mao +5

Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is an emerging task, which aims to describe factual content with the intrinsic emotions expressed in videos. Existing works perceive global emotion…

cs.CL2026

Wiki Live Challenge: Challenging Deep Research Agents with Expert-Level Wikipedia Articles

Shaohan Wang, Benfeng Xu, Licheng Zhang +5

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in autonomous information retrieval and report generation, showing great potential to assist humans in complex…

cs.CL2026

FS-Researcher: Test-Time Scaling for Long-Horizon Research Tasks with File-System-Based Agents

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Mingxuan Du +4

Deep research is emerging as a representative long-horizon task for large language model (LLM) agents. However, long trajectories in deep research often exceed model context limits…

cs.CL2025

In-Token Rationality Optimization: Towards Accurate and Concise LLM Reasoning via Self-Feedback

Mingye Zhu, Yi Liu, Zheren Fu +2

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) for chain-of-thought reasoning presents a significant challenge: supervised fine-tuning on a single "golden" rationale hurts generalization as…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

SparseRM: A Lightweight Preference Modeling with Sparse Autoencoder

Dengcan Liu, Jiahao Li, Zheren Fu +4

Reward models (RMs) are a core component in the post-training of large language models (LLMs), serving as proxies for human preference evaluation and guiding model alignment. Howev…

cs.CV2025

Video-LevelGauge: Investigating Contextual Positional Bias in Large Video Language Models

Hou Xia, Zheren Fu, Fangcan Ling +4

Large video language models (LVLMs) have made notable progress in video understanding, spurring the development of corresponding evaluation benchmarks. However, existing benchmarks…

cs.CL2025

Training LLM-Based Agents with Synthetic Self-Reflected Trajectories and Partial Masking

Yihan Chen, Benfeng Xu, Xiaorui Wang +2

Autonomous agents, which perceive environments and take actions to achieve goals, have become increasingly feasible with the advancements in large language models (LLMs). However,…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging Importance Sampling to Detach Alignment Modules from Large Language Models

Yi Liu, Dianqing Liu, Mingye Zhu +3

The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) across industries has increased the demand for high-quality and customizable outputs. However, traditional alignment methods…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging Robust Optimization for LLM Alignment under Distribution Shifts

Mingye Zhu, Yi Liu, Zheren Fu +2

Preference alignment methods are increasingly critical for steering large language models (LLMs) to generate outputs consistent with human values. While recent approaches often rel…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Composed Multi-modal Retrieval: A Survey of Approaches and Applications

Kun Zhang, Jingyu Li, Zhe Li +10

The burgeoning volume of multi-modal data necessitates advanced retrieval paradigms beyond unimodal and cross-modal approaches. Composed Multi-modal Retrieval (CMR) emerges as a pi…

cs.CL2024

ELDER: Enhancing Lifelong Model Editing with Mixture-of-LoRA

Jiaang Li, Quan Wang, Zhongnan Wang +2

Large language models (LLMs) require model editing to efficiently update specific knowledge within them and avoid factual errors. Most model editing methods are solely designed for…

cs.CV2024

RealCustom++: Representing Images as Real Textual Word for Real-Time Customization

Zhendong Mao, Mengqi Huang, Fei Ding +3

Given a text and an image of a specific subject, text-to-image customization aims to generate new images that align with both the text and the subject's appearance. Existing works…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

RealCustom: Narrowing Real Text Word for Real-Time Open-Domain Text-to-Image Customization

Mengqi Huang, Zhendong Mao, Mingcong Liu +2

Text-to-image customization, which aims to synthesize text-driven images for the given subjects, has recently revolutionized content creation. Existing works follow the pseudo-word…

cs.CL2023

Grammatical Error Correction via Mixed-Grained Weighted Training

Jiahao Li, Quan Wang, Chiwei Zhu +2

The task of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to automatically correct grammatical errors in natural texts. Almost all previous works treat annotated training data equally, b…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

On the Calibration of Large Language Models and Alignment

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Quan Wang +2

As large language models attract increasing attention and find widespread application, concurrent challenges of reliability also arise at the same time. Confidence calibration, an…

cs.CL2023

Air-Decoding: Attribute Distribution Reconstruction for Decoding-Time Controllable Text Generation

Tianqi Zhong, Quan Wang, Jingxuan Han +2

Controllable text generation (CTG) aims to generate text with desired attributes, and decoding-time-based methods have shown promising performance on this task. However, in this pa…