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Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding
Ming Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Tingna Xie +5
Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explicit targets and reward signals…
Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events
Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4
Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that r…
Beyond Feeling Better: Capability-Sustaining Emotional Dialogue as a Longitudinal Research Paradigm
Ming Wang, Jiaqi Wu Young, Wenfang Wu +2
Emotional dialogue research includes two influential strategy traditions. Empathetic dialogue prioritizes understanding a speaker's emotional experience. Emotional support conversa…
Beyond Text Following: Repairable Arbitration Reversals in Audio-Language Models
Yichen Gao, Yiqun Zhang, Zijing Wang +7
Audio-language models (ALMs) often follow text that conflicts with audio, even when the audio evidence is clear. This raises a basic question: is the audio-supported answer unavail…
Coherence Maximization Improves Pluralistic Alignment
Taslim Mahbub, Yiding Pei, Shi Feng
Aligning AI systems with diverse human values requires value specifications grounded in concrete examples, but generating such examples without extensive human supervision remains…
"I've Seen How This Goes": Characterizing Diversity via Progressive Conditional Surprise
Matthew Khoriaty, David Williams-King, Shi Feng
Measuring the diversity of creative outputs is central to evaluating post-training mode collapse, comparing decoding strategies, and quantifying creative behavior in both AI and hu…
GenPT: Beyond Self-Report for Reliable LLM Psychometrics via Generative Projective Testing
Ming Wang, Shuang Wu, Bixuan Wang +7
Self-report questionnaires remain the prevailing tool for probing the psychological states of persona-conditioned agents (PC-Agents). However, classical instruments inherit two wel…
From Parameter Dynamics to Risk Scoring : Quantifying Sample-Level Safety Degradation in LLM Fine-tuning
Xiao Wang, Yifei Zhang, YongKang Liu +4
Safety alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is extremely fragile, as fine-tuning on a small number of benign samples can erase safety behaviors learned from millions of prefer…
MTRouter: Cost-Aware Multi-Turn LLM Routing with History-Model Joint Embeddings
Yiqun Zhang, Hao Li, Zihan Wang +6
Multi-turn, long-horizon tasks are increasingly common for large language models (LLMs), but solving them typically requires many sequential model invocations, accumulating substan…
DEEPMED: Building a Medical DeepResearch Agent via Multi-hop Med-Search Data and Turn-Controlled Agentic Training & Inference
Zihan Wang, Hao Wang, Shi Feng +6
Medical reasoning models remain constrained by parametric knowledge and are thus susceptible to forgetting and hallucinations. DeepResearch (DR) models ground outputs in verifiable…
ES4R: Speech Encoding Based on Prepositive Affective Modeling for Empathetic Response Generation
Zhuoyue Gao, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4
Empathetic speech dialogue requires not only understanding linguistic content but also perceiving rich paralinguistic information such as prosody, tone, and emotional intensity for…
Resource-Limited Joint Multimodal Sentiment Reasoning and Classification via Chain-of-Thought Enhancement and Distillation
Haonan Shangguan, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng +3
Current approaches for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) primarily leverage the knowledge and reasoning capabilities of parameter-heavy (Multimodal) LLMs for classification, over…
MoLAN: A Unified Modality-Aware Noise Dynamic Editing Framework for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Xingle Xu, Yongkang Liu, Dexian Cai +4
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis aims to integrate information from various modalities, such as audio, visual, and text, to make complementary predictions. However, it often struggles…
MEKiT: Multi-source Heterogeneous Knowledge Injection Method via Instruction Tuning for Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction
Shiyi Mu, Yongkang Liu, Shi Feng +3
Although large language models (LLMs) excel in text comprehension and generation, their performance on the Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction (ECPE) task, which requires reasoning abili…
Nature-Inspired Population-Based Evolution of Large Language Models
Yiqun Zhang, Peng Ye, Xiaocui Yang +5
Evolution, the engine behind the survival and growth of life on Earth, operates through the population-based process of reproduction. Inspired by this principle, this paper formall…
PsyDraw: A Multi-Agent Multimodal System for Mental Health Screening in Left-Behind Children
Yiqun Zhang, Xiaocui Yang, Xiaobai Li +5
Left-behind children (LBCs), numbering over 66 million in China, face severe mental health challenges due to parental migration for work. Early screening and identification of at-r…
Muse: A Multimodal Conversational Recommendation Dataset with Scenario-Grounded User Profiles
Zihan Wang, Xiaocui Yang, Yongkang Liu +3
Current conversational recommendation systems focus predominantly on text. However, real-world recommendation settings are generally multimodal, causing a significant gap between e…
Language Models as Continuous Self-Evolving Data Engineers
Peidong Wang, Ming Wang, Zhiming Ma +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities on various tasks, while the further evolvement is limited to the lack of high-quality training data. In addit…
Minstrel: Structural Prompt Generation with Multi-Agents Coordination for Non-AI Experts
Ming Wang, Yuanzhong Liu, Xiaoyu Liang +8
LLMs have demonstrated commendable performance across diverse domains. Nevertheless, formulating high-quality prompts to assist them in their work poses a challenge for non-AI expe…
Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generation Model with Rethink for Multi-hop Question Answering
Xiaoming Zhang, Ming Wang, Xiaocui Yang +3
Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) necessitates complex reasoning by integrating multiple pieces of information to resolve intricate questions. However, existing QA systems encounte…
MM-InstructEval: Zero-Shot Evaluation of (Multimodal) Large Language Models on Multimodal Reasoning Tasks
Xiaocui Yang, Wenfang Wu, Shi Feng +7
The emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has triggered extensive research in model evaluation. While existing evaluation studies primarily focus on unimodal (visio…
FEEL: A Framework for Evaluating Emotional Support Capability with Large Language Models
Huaiwen Zhang, Yu Chen, Ming Wang +1
Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) is a typical dialogue that can effectively assist the user in mitigating emotional pressures. However, owing to the inherent subjectivity invol…