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most citedYour Dense Retriever is Secretly an Expeditious Reasoner

2 citations · 4 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CL2026

Why Generate a Click? Plug-in Decision Heads for Web Agents

Chengguang Gan, Yunhao Liang, Hanjun Wei +3

Web agents built on vision language models decide every action by generating text such as click(12), although most of that text encodes a choice among a few action types and a few…

cs.CV2026

Mitigating Video Hallucinations via Attention-Guided Representation Perturbation

Zhixin Cai, Ruoqi Yuan, Xinchen Yang +4

Video large language models (Video LLMs) often generate responses unsupported by the input video. Contrastive decoding (CD) can mitigate these hallucinations, but its effectiveness…

cs.CL2026

CircuitLens: Reasoning Circuits as Data Selection Signals for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Zhuofan Chen, Ziqian Jiao, Yikai Cui +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is sensitive to which problems a model trains on, yet existing selection criteria--difficulty filtering, hand-curation, reward…

cs.CL2026

How Output Format Confounds Data Quality and Capability in Instruction Tuning

Chengguang Gan, Hanjun Wei, Yunhao Liang +3

Instruction-tuning data are judged by quality metrics, and tuned models are judged by benchmarks, but both judgments pass through an output interface: the surface format in which a…

cs.AI2026

MAG: A Web-Agent Benchmark and Harness for Multimodal Action and Guide Generation

Chengguang Gan, Hanjun Wei, Yunhao Liang +3

Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) are embedded overlays widely used on web systems to guide users through operations inside a page, helping them get started with unfamiliar interfa…

cs.AI2026

A Learning-Rate-Gated Failure of GRPO in a Small Language and Vision-Language Model Web Agent: A Controlled Null and Its Mechanism

Chengguang Gan, Zhixi Cai, Yunhao Liang +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in particular, is now run routinely on a supervised checkpoint in the hope of producin…

cs.AI2026

What We Talk About When We Talk About LLM Planning: Evidence for Two Distinct Planning Abilities

Sukai Huang, Chenyuan Zhang, Fucai Ke +4

When LLMs exhibit uneven performance across planning tasks, these gaps are often attributed to task difficulty. We argue that this explanation is incomplete, as task-level variatio…

cs.AI2026

Xetrieval: Explaining Dense Retrieval through Feature Elicitation

Zhixin Cai, Jun Bai, Yang Liu +7

Dense retrieval enables effective semantic matching, yet the semantic factors underlying its relevance scores remain opaque. Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) support feature-level explan…

cs.AI2026

Mini-BEHAVIOR-Gran: Revealing U-Shaped Effects of Instruction Granularity on Language-Guided Embodied Agents

Sukai Huang, Chenyuan Zhang, Fucai Ke +4

Instruction granularity is an important yet poorly controlled variable in language-guided embodied AI. Existing benchmarks typically pair each task with a single static instruction…

cs.CV2026

VIEW2SPACE: Studying Multi-View Visual Reasoning from Sparse Observations

Fucai Ke, Zhixi Cai, Boying Li +6

Multi-view visual reasoning is essential for intelligent systems that must understand complex environments from sparse and discrete viewpoints, yet existing research has largely fo…

cs.AI2026

MATA: A Trainable Hierarchical Automaton System for Multi-Agent Visual Reasoning

Zhixi Cai, Fucai Ke, Kevin Leo +4

Recent vision-language models have strong perceptual ability but their implicit reasoning is hard to explain and easily generates hallucinations on complex queries. Compositional m…

cs.IR2025★ 2 cited

Your Dense Retriever is Secretly an Expeditious Reasoner

Yichi Zhang, Jun Bai, Zhixin Cai +4

Dense retrievers enhance retrieval by encoding queries and documents into continuous vectors, but they often struggle with reasoning-intensive queries. Although Large Language Mode…

cs.CV2025

JRDB-Reasoning: A Difficulty-Graded Benchmark for Visual Reasoning in Robotics

Simindokht Jahangard, Mehrzad Mohammadi, Yi Shen +2

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced visual reasoning, a key capability for embodied AI agents like robots. Howev…

cs.CV2025

Explain Before You Answer: A Survey on Compositional Visual Reasoning

Fucai Ke, Joy Hsu, Zhixi Cai +10

Compositional visual reasoning has emerged as a key research frontier in multimodal AI, aiming to endow machines with the human-like ability to decompose visual scenes, ground inte…

cs.CL2025

M-MRE: Extending the Mutual Reinforcement Effect to Multimodal Information Extraction

Chengguang Gan, Zhixi Cai, Yanbin Wei +3

Mutual Reinforcement Effect (MRE) is an emerging subfield at the intersection of information extraction and model interpretability. MRE aims to leverage the mutual understanding be…

cs.CV2025

DWIM: Towards Tool-aware Visual Reasoning via Discrepancy-aware Workflow Generation & Instruct-Masking Tuning

Fucai Ke, Vijay Kumar B G, Xingjian Leng +6

Visual reasoning (VR), which is crucial in many fields for enabling human-like visual understanding, remains highly challenging. Recently, compositional visual reasoning approaches…

cs.CV2025

NAVER: A Neuro-Symbolic Compositional Automaton for Visual Grounding with Explicit Logic Reasoning

Zhixi Cai, Fucai Ke, Simindokht Jahangard +4

Visual Grounding (VG) tasks, such as referring expression detection and segmentation tasks are important for linking visual entities to context, especially in complex reasoning tas…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

NEUSIS: A Compositional Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Autonomous Perception, Reasoning, and Planning in Complex UAV Search Missions

Zhixi Cai, Cristian Rojas Cardenas, Kevin Leo +14

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous UAV search missions, where a UAV must locate specific Entities of Interest (EOIs) within a time limit, based on brief descriptions in…

cs.RO2024

Hier-SLAM: Scaling-up Semantics in SLAM with a Hierarchically Categorical Gaussian Splatting

Boying Li, Zhixi Cai, Yuan-Fang Li +2

We propose Hier-SLAM, a semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM method featuring a novel hierarchical categorical representation, which enables accurate global 3D semantic mapping, sca…

cs.CL2024

ASGEA: Exploiting Logic Rules from Align-Subgraphs for Entity Alignment

Yangyifei Luo, Zhuo Chen, Lingbing Guo +4

Entity alignment (EA) aims to identify entities across different knowledge graphs that represent the same real-world objects. Recent embedding-based EA methods have achieved state-…