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most citedUnderstanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach

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12 papers

cs.SD2026

AlignAudio: A Unified Dual-Alignment Framework for Noise-Robust Speech-Conditioned Generation

Yixuan Li, Xuenan Xu, Zeyu Xie +1

Speech-conditioned generation maps speech signals to target audio outputs. Prior end-to-end speech-conditioned generative models achieve high fidelity in clean acoustic conditions,…

cs.LG2026

Prism: Efficient Test-Time Scaling via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification for Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Jinbin Bai, Yixuan Li, Yuchen Zhu +8

Inference-time compute has re-emerged as a practical way to improve LLM reasoning. Most test-time scaling (TTS) algorithms rely on autoregressive decoding, which is ill-suited to d…

cs.CV2026

FluencyVE: Marrying Temporal-Aware Mamba with Bypass Attention for Video Editing

Mingshu Cai, Yixuan Li, Osamu Yoshie +1

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have achieved unprecedented success in image generation and editing. However, extending this success to video editing remains challenging…

cs.SD2025

STAR: Speech-to-Audio Generation via Representation Learning

Zeyu Xie, Xuenan Xu, Yixuan Li +2

This work presents STAR, the first end-to-end speech-to-audio generation framework, designed to enhance efficiency and address error propagation inherent in cascaded systems. Unlik…

cs.LG2025

Towards Interpretability Without Sacrifice: Faithful Dense Layer Decomposition with Mixture of Decoders

James Oldfield, Shawn Im, Sharon Li +3

Multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) are an integral part of large language models, yet their dense representations render them difficult to understand, edit, and steer. Recent methods le…

cs.AI2025

Visual Instruction Bottleneck Tuning

Changdae Oh, Jiatong Li, Shawn Im +1

Despite widespread adoption, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) suffer performance degradation when encountering unfamiliar queries under distribution shifts. Existing method…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Unified Understanding and Evaluation of Steering Methods

Shawn Im, Sharon Li

Latent space steering methods provide a practical approach to controlling large language models by applying steering vectors to intermediate activations, guiding outputs toward des…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Understanding Multimodal LLMs Under Distribution Shifts: An Information-Theoretic Approach

Changdae Oh, Zhen Fang, Shawn Im +2

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown promising capabilities but struggle under distribution shifts, where evaluation data differ from instruction tuning distribution…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

DaWin: Training-free Dynamic Weight Interpolation for Robust Adaptation

Changdae Oh, Yixuan Li, Kyungwoo Song +2

Adapting a pre-trained foundation model on downstream tasks should ensure robustness against distribution shifts without the need to retrain the whole model. Although existing weig…

cs.LG2024

Bridging OOD Detection and Generalization: A Graph-Theoretic View

Han Wang, Yixuan Li

In the context of modern machine learning, models deployed in real-world scenarios often encounter diverse data shifts like covariate and semantic shifts, leading to challenges in…

cs.HC2024

Equivalence: An analysis of artists' roles with Image Generative AI from Conceptual Art perspective through an interactive installation design practice

Yixuan Li, Dan C. Baciu, Marcos Novak +1

Over the past year, the emergence of advanced text-to-image Generative AI models has significantly impacted the art world, challenging traditional notions of creativity and the rol…

cs.LG2024

Understanding the Learning Dynamics of Alignment with Human Feedback

Shawn Im, Yixuan Li

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human intentions has become a critical task for safely deploying models in real-world systems. While existing alignment approaches have s…