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most citedML-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models and Agents for Machine Learning Tasks on Repository-Level Code

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cs.CV2026

Towards Characterizing Scientific Image Utility and Upgradability

WenZhe Li, Qihang Yan, Liang Chen +6

Scientific images function as critical evidence in research communication, yet their integrity faces unprecedented threats from AI-generated content that introduces subtle but cons…

cs.CV2026

Crafter: A Multi-Agent Harness for Editable Scientific Figure Generation from Diverse Inputs

Haozhe Zhao, Shuzheng Si, Zhenhailong Wang +6

Scientific figures are among the most effective means of communicating complex research ideas, yet producing publication-quality illustrations remains one of the most labor-intensi…

cs.AI2026

SaaS-Bench: Can Computer-Use Agents Leverage Real-World SaaS to Solve Professional Workflows?

Kean Shi, Zihang Li, Tianyi Ma +13

Computer-Using Agents (CUAs) are rapidly extending large language models (LLMs) beyond text-based reasoning toward action execution in more complex environments, such as web browse…

cs.SE2026

RoadmapBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Agentic Software Development Across Version Upgrades

Xinbo Xu, Ruihan Yang, Haiyang Shen +13

Coding agents are increasingly deployed in real software development, where a single version iteration requires months of coordinated work across many files. However, most existing…

cs.LG2026

Step-wise Rubric Rewards for LLM Reasoning

Weichu Xie, Haozhe Zhao, Wenpu Liu +15

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is widely used to improve reasoning in large language models, but rewards only final-answer correctness with no supervision ov…

cs.CL2026

VCG-Bench: Towards A Unified Visual-Centric Benchmark for Structured Generation and Editing

Xiaoyan Su, Peijie Dong, Zhenheng Tang +8

Despite the rapid advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs), a critical gap remains in their ability to handle structured, controllable diagrammatic tasks essential for profess…

cs.LG2025

Improving MLLM Training Efficiency via Stage-Aware Sparsity

Kean Shi, Liang Chen, Haozhe Zhao +1

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance across a variety of domains. However, training MLLMs is often inefficient, as much of the computa…

cs.CV2025

MENTOR: Efficient Multimodal-Conditioned Tuning for Autoregressive Vision Generation Models

Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Shuzheng Si +5

Recent text-to-image models produce high-quality results but still struggle with precise visual control, balancing multimodal inputs, and requiring extensive training for complex m…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Representation Alignment for Image Generation: Text-Image Interleaved Control Is Easier Than You Think

Liang Chen, Shuai Bai, Wenhao Chai +5

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transfor…

cs.CL2024

Next Token Prediction Towards Multimodal Intelligence: A Comprehensive Survey

Liang Chen, Zekun Wang, Shuhuai Ren +24

Building on the foundations of language modeling in natural language processing, Next Token Prediction (NTP) has evolved into a versatile training objective for machine learning ta…

cs.CV2024

Looking Beyond Text: Reducing Language bias in Large Vision-Language Models via Multimodal Dual-Attention and Soft-Image Guidance

Haozhe Zhao, Shuzheng Si, Liang Chen +4

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results in various vision-language tasks. However, despite showing promising performance, LVLMs suffer from hallucinat…

cs.CV2024

A Spark of Vision-Language Intelligence: 2-Dimensional Autoregressive Transformer for Efficient Finegrained Image Generation

Liang Chen, Sinan Tan, Zefan Cai +7

This work tackles the information loss bottleneck of vector-quantization (VQ) autoregressive image generation by introducing a novel model architecture called the 2-Dimensional Aut…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

UltraEdit: Instruction-based Fine-Grained Image Editing at Scale

Haozhe Zhao, Xiaojian Ma, Liang Chen +7

This paper presents UltraEdit, a large-scale (approximately 4 million editing samples), automatically generated dataset for instruction-based image editing. Our key idea is to addr…

cs.CV2024

MMEvalPro: Calibrating Multimodal Benchmarks Towards Trustworthy and Efficient Evaluation

Jinsheng Huang, Liang Chen, Taian Guo +13

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit impressive cross-modal understanding and reasoning abilities, often assessed through multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that include an image,…

cs.CL2024

Mitigating Language-Level Performance Disparity in mPLMs via Teacher Language Selection and Cross-lingual Self-Distillation

Haozhe Zhao, Zefan Cai, Shuzheng Si +4

Large-scale multilingual Pretrained Language Models (mPLMs) yield impressive performance on cross-language tasks, yet significant performance disparities exist across different lan…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

ML-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models and Agents for Machine Learning Tasks on Repository-Level Code

Xiangru Tang, Yuliang Liu, Zefan Cai +21

Despite Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 achieving impressive results in function-level code generation, they struggle with repository-scale code understanding (e.g., coming…