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CT: Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sentiment Shifts in Social-Media Conversation Trees
S M Rafiuddin, Atriya Sen
Sentiment in social-media threads does not only vary across posts; it shifts as users react to claims, corrections, evidence, and hostility within a branching reply tree. We study…
Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open Agentic Multimodal Generation via Understanding under a Minimal Budget
Guoxuan Chen, Chufeng Xiao, Haoran Yang +30
We introduce Boogu-Image-0.1, an open-source unified multimodal understanding and generation model family, comprising Base, Turbo, Edit, and Edit-Turbo variants. It delivers compet…
Detached Skip-Links and -Probe: Decoupling Feature Aggregation from Gradient Propagation for MLLM OCR
Ziye Yuan, Ruchang Yao, Chengxin Zheng +3
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at high-level reasoning yet fail on OCR tasks where fine-grained visual details are compromised or misaligned. We identify an overloo…
On Surprising Effectiveness of Masking Updates in Adaptive Optimizers
Taejong Joo, Wenhan Xia, Cheolmin Kim +2
Training large language models (LLMs) relies almost exclusively on dense adaptive optimizers with increasingly sophisticated preconditioners. We challenge this by showing that rand…