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most citedExplainable and Interpretable Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

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cs.CV2026

MM-Matryoshka: Towards Budget-Elastic Visual Document Retrieval via a 2D Multimodal Matryoshka Training Framework

Haowen Xiang, Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo +4

Multi-vector visual document retrievers achieve strong fine-grained matching by representing each page with multiple vectors from deep Vision-Language Models (VLMs), but this desig…

cs.CR2026

SAMark: A Self-Anchored Text Watermarking with Paragraph-Level Paraphrase Robustness

Jiahao Huo, Wenjie Qu, Yibo Yan +5

Semantic-level watermarking (SWM) improves robustness against text modifications by treating sentences as the basic unit. However, robustness to paragraph-level paraphrasing remain…

cs.CV2026

Visual Late Chunking: An Empirical Study of Contextual Chunking for Efficient Visual Document Retrieval

Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +5

Multi-vector models dominate Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) due to their fine-grained matching capabilities, but their high storage and computational costs present a major barrier…

cs.CL2026

Beyond the Grid: Layout-Informed Multi-Vector Retrieval with Parsed Visual Document Representations

Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +6

Harnessing the full potential of visually-rich documents requires retrieval systems that understand not just text, but intricate layouts, a core challenge in Visual Document Retrie…

cs.CV2026

EgoIntent: A Pre-Outcome Micro-Step Benchmark for Understanding What, Why, and Next

Ye Pan, Chi Kit Wong, Yuanhuiyi Lyu +8

Egocentric video provides a natural modality for studying human behavior, but conventional visual understanding captures mainly observable scenes, objects, and actions rather than…

cs.CL2026

Unlocking Multimodal Document Intelligence: From Current Triumphs to Future Frontiers of Visual Document Retrieval

Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo, Guanbo Feng +12

With the rapid proliferation of multimodal information, Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) has emerged as a critical frontier in bridging the gap between unstructured visually rich da…

cs.CL2026

Sculpting the Vector Space: Towards Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Prune-then-Merge Framework

Yibo Yan, Mingdong Ou, Yi Cao +5

Visual Document Retrieval (VDR), which aims to retrieve relevant pages within vast corpora of visually-rich documents, is of significance in current multimodal retrieval applicatio…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Memory in the Age of AI Agents

Yuyang Hu, Shichun Liu, Yanwei Yue +44

Memory has emerged, and will continue to remain, a core capability of foundation model-based agents. As research on agent memory rapidly expands and attracts unprecedented attentio…

cs.CL2026

CausalEmbed: Auto-Regressive Multi-Vector Generation in Latent Space for Visual Document Embedding

Jiahao Huo, Yu Huang, Yibo Yan +7

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable potential in Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) through generating high-quality multi-vector embeddings, the su…

cs.CV2025

Aligned but Stereotypical? How System Prompts Shape Demographic Bias in LLM-Based Text-to-Image Models

NaHyeon Park, Na Min An, Kunhee Kim +3

Text-to-image (T2I) systems increasingly rely on Large Language Model (LLM)-based text conditioning to interpret and expand user prompts. While this improves prompt understanding a…

cs.CR2025

PMark: Towards Robust and Distortion-free Semantic-level Watermarking with Channel Constraints

Jiahao Huo, Shuliang Liu, Bin Wang +5

Semantic-level watermarking (SWM) for large language models (LLMs) enhances watermarking robustness against text modifications and paraphrasing attacks by treating the sentence as…

cs.CL2025

Pierce the Mists, Greet the Sky: Decipher Knowledge Overshadowing via Knowledge Circuit Analysis

Haoming Huang, Yibo Yan, Jiahao Huo +4

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their remarkable capabilities, are hampered by hallucinations. A particularly challenging variant, knowledge overshadowing, occurs when one pi…

cs.CL2025

MathAgent: Leveraging a Mixture-of-Math-Agent Framework for Real-World Multimodal Mathematical Error Detection

Yibo Yan, Shen Wang, Jiahao Huo +3

Mathematical error detection in educational settings presents a significant challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), requiring a sophisticated understanding of both…

cs.CL2025

EssayJudge: A Multi-Granular Benchmark for Assessing Automated Essay Scoring Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models

Jiamin Su, Yibo Yan, Fangteng Fu +6

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in educational assessment by providing scalable and consistent evaluations of writing tasks. However, traditional AES systems fac…

cs.CL2025

MMUnlearner: Reformulating Multimodal Machine Unlearning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models

Jiahao Huo, Yibo Yan, Xu Zheng +4

Recent progress in Machine Unlearning (MU) has introduced solutions for the selective removal of private or sensitive information encoded within deep neural networks. Nonetheless,…

cs.CL2025

Position: Multimodal Large Language Models Can Significantly Advance Scientific Reasoning

Yibo Yan, Shen Wang, Jiahao Huo +7

Scientific reasoning, the process through which humans apply logic, evidence, and critical thinking to explore and interpret scientific phenomena, is essential in advancing knowled…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

Explainable and Interpretable Multimodal Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Yunkai Dang, Kaichen Huang, Jiahao Huo +11

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous fields, with large language models (LLMs) and computer vision (CV) systems driving advancements in…

cs.CL2024

MINER: Mining the Underlying Pattern of Modality-Specific Neurons in Multimodal Large Language Models

Kaichen Huang, Jiahao Huo, Yibo Yan +3

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced, integrating more modalities into diverse applications. However, the lack of explainability re…

cs.CL2024

ErrorRadar: Benchmarking Complex Mathematical Reasoning of Multimodal Large Language Models Via Error Detection

Yibo Yan, Shen Wang, Jiahao Huo +13

As the field of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) continues to evolve, their potential to revolutionize artificial intelligence is particularly promising, especially in addr…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

MMNeuron: Discovering Neuron-Level Domain-Specific Interpretation in Multimodal Large Language Model

Jiahao Huo, Yibo Yan, Boren Hu +2

Projecting visual features into word embedding space has become a significant fusion strategy adopted by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, its internal mechanisms…