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

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65 papers

cs.CV2026

AnchorFold: A Focus-Then-Fold Framework via Recursive Attention Propagation for Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval

Haoyu Zuo, Yibo Yan, Xin Zou +4

Multi-vector vision-language retrievers enable fine-grained Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) through late interaction, but storing and scoring hundreds of visual patch embeddings pe…

cs.CL2026

Should Missing Modalities Always Be Necessary to Repair for Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis?

Yubo Gao, Haotian Wu, Xiaoyu Xu +9

Existing methods for multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) under missing modalities usually follow a repair-first paradigm. We revisit this assumption and ask: \emph{should every mis…

cs.CV2026

Clearer Sight, Fewer Lies: Oriented Pickup Preference Optimization for Multimodal Hallucination Mitigation

Xin Zou, Haolin Deng, Yibo Yan +5

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are prone to hallucination as their generation preferences are insufficiently calibrated to visual evidence, causing them to fall back on l…

cs.CV2026

Consistency as Inductive Bias: Learning Cross-View Invariance for Robust Multimodal Reasoning

Xin Zou, Haolin Deng, Yibo Yan +6

Inductive biases steer learning toward generalizable solutions by encoding task structure. In this work, we identify a crucial missing bias in MLLMs: cross-view consistency, \texti…

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.CL2026

Thinking Economically: A Hierarchical Framework for Adaptive-Complexity Reasoning in LLMs

Yubo Gao, Haotian Wu, Hong Chen +8

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has significantly enhanced LLM reasoning, yet often incurs substantial computational overhead due to "overthinking": generating excessively long rationales w…

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.CL2026

Decoding by Perturbation: Mitigating MLLM Hallucinations via Dynamic Textual Perturbation

Sihang Jia, Shuliang Liu, Songbo Yang +3

Multimodal Large Language Models frequently suffer from inference hallucinations, partially stemming from language priors dominating visual evidence. Existing training-free mitigat…

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

Unveiling Language Routing Isolation in Multilingual MoE Models for Interpretable Subnetwork Adaptation

Kening Zheng, Wei-Chieh Huang, Jiahao Huo +9

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models exhibit striking performance disparities across languages, yet the internal mechanisms driving these gaps remain poorly understood. In this work, we…

cs.CV2026

AndroTMem: From Interaction Trajectories to Anchored Memory in Long-Horizon GUI Agents

Yibo Shi, Jungang Li, Linghao Zhang +25

Long-horizon GUI agents are a key step toward real-world deployment, yet effective interaction memory under prevailing paradigms remains under-explored. Replaying full interaction…

cs.CV2026

Temporal Gains, Spatial Costs: Revisiting Video Fine-Tuning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Linghao Zhang, Jungang Li, Yonghua Hei +12

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are typically trained in multiple stages, with video-based supervised fine-tuning (Video-SFT) serving as a key step for improving visual un…

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.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.CV2026

A Visual Semantic Adaptive Watermark grounded by Prefix-Tuning for Large Vision-Language Model

Qi Zheng, Shuliang Liu, Yu Huang +8

Watermarking has emerged as a pivotal solution for content traceability and intellectual property protection in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). However, vision-agnostic water…

cs.CV2026

Vision-Language Introspection: Mitigating Overconfident Hallucinations in MLLMs via Interpretable Bi-Causal Steering

Shuliang Liu, Songbo Yang, Dong Fang +7

Object hallucination critically undermines the reliability of Multimodal Large Language Models, often stemming from a fundamental failure in cognitive introspection, where models b…

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.AI2026

Distilling the Thought, Watermarking the Answer: A Principle Semantic Guided Watermark for Large Reasoning Models

Shuliang Liu, Xingyu Li, Hongyi Liu +6

Reasoning Large Language Models (RLLMs) excelling in complex tasks present unique challenges for digital watermarking, as existing methods often disrupt logical coherence or incur…

cs.CV2025

Sharp Eyes and Memory for VideoLLMs: Information-Aware Visual Token Pruning for Efficient and Reliable VideoLLM Reasoning

Jialong Qin, Xin Zou, Di Lu +2

Current Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) suffer from quadratic computational complexity and key-value cache scaling, due to their reliance on processing excessive redundant…

cs.CL2025

EffiReason-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating and Advancing Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models

Junquan Huang, Haotian Wu, Yubo Gao +7

Large language models (LLMs) with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting achieve strong reasoning but often produce unnecessarily long explanations, increasing cost and sometimes reducin…

cs.CV2025

Don't Just Chase "Highlighted Tokens" in MLLMs: Revisiting Visual Holistic Context Retention

Xin Zou, Di Lu, Yizhou Wang +5

Despite their powerful capabilities, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from considerable computational overhead due to their reliance on massive visual tokens. Recent…

cs.CL2025

DocPruner: A Storage-Efficient Framework for Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Adaptive Patch-Level Embedding Pruning

Yibo Yan, Guangwei Xu, Xin Zou +3

Visual Document Retrieval (VDR), the task of retrieving visually-rich document pages using queries that combine visual and textual cues, is crucial for numerous real-world applicat…

cs.CV2025

MOSS-ChatV: Reinforcement Learning with Process Reasoning Reward for Video Temporal Reasoning

Sicheng Tao, Jungang Li, Yibo Yan +8

Video reasoning has emerged as a critical capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), requiring models to move beyond static perception toward coherent understanding o…