activity
20232026
collaborators

11 papers

cs.AI2026

SVoT: State-aware Visualization-of-Thought for Spatial Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Chao Lei, Yanbei Jiang, Markus Hiller +4

Spatial reasoning remains a challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), as it requires reliable multi-hop inference over both intermediate states and state transitions.…

cs.AI2026

Mind the Perspective: Let's Reason Recursively for Theory of Mind

Chao Lei, Guang Hu, Meng Yang +2

Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning requires inferring agents' beliefs from partial and asymmetric observations, which remains an open challenge for LLMs. Existing prompting-based appro…

cs.AI2026

Reward on Path: Learning Intermediate Supervision Signals for Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Shengxiang Gao, Chao Lei, Jey Han Lau +2

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to answer user questions by reasoning over Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Recent methods use supervision derived from answer labels or refin…

cs.MM2026

MIDI-LLaMA: An Instruction-Following Multimodal LLM for Symbolic Music Understanding

Meng Yang, Jon McCormack, Maria Teresa Llano +2

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLM) for audio music have demonstrated strong capabilities in music understanding, yet symbolic music, a fundamental represent…

cs.CV2025

PROPA: Toward Process-level Optimization in Visual Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Yanbei Jiang, Chao Lei, Yihao Ding +2

Despite significant progress, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still struggle with complex visual reasoning, where multi-step dependencies cause early errors to cascade through the re…

cs.CV2025

Beyond Perception: Evaluating Abstract Visual Reasoning through Multi-Stage Task

Yanbei Jiang, Yihao Ding, Chao Lei +3

Current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in general visual reasoning but remain underexplored in Abstract Visual Reasoning (AVR), which demands higher-order reasoning…

cs.AI2025

From Reasoning to Generalization: Knowledge-Augmented LLMs for ARC Benchmark

Chao Lei, Nir Lipovetzky, Krista A. Ehinger +1

Recent reasoning-oriented LLMs have demonstrated strong performance on challenging tasks such as mathematics and science examinations. However, core cognitive faculties of human in…

cs.RO2025

State-Based Disassembly Planning

Chao Lei, Nir Lipovetzky, Krista A. Ehinger

It has been shown recently that physics-based simulation significantly enhances the disassembly capabilities of real-world assemblies with diverse 3D shapes and stringent motion co…

cs.SE2024

Planning-Driven Programming: A Large Language Model Programming Workflow

Chao Lei, Yanchuan Chang, Nir Lipovetzky +1

The strong performance of large language models (LLMs) raises extensive discussion on their application to code generation. Recent research suggests continuous program refinements…

cs.AI2024

Generalized Planning for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus

Chao Lei, Nir Lipovetzky, Krista A. Ehinger

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a general artificial intelligence benchmark that poses difficulties for pure machine learning methods due to its requirement for fluid…

cs.CL2023

The GUA-Speech System Description for CNVSRC Challenge 2023

Shengqiang Li, Chao Lei, Baozhong Ma +2

This study describes our system for Task 1 Single-speaker Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) fixed track in the Chinese Continuous Visual Speech Recognition Challenge (CNVSRC) 2023. S…