activity
20242026
most citedA Survey on Data Contamination for Large Language Models

7 citations · 20 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

48 papers

cs.CL2026

PremiseSQL: Evaluating Premise Critique and Abstention in Text-to-SQL Systems

Shuo Lin, Jinzhe Li, Chenlu Guo +3

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved Text-to-SQL performance, yet existing NL2SQL systems largely assume that user queries are valid and answ…

cs.CL2026

CSWBench: Evaluating Context-Sensitive Code-Switching in Creative Writing

Zewen Jiang, Yahan Li, Chenlu Guo +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated multilingual capabilities across diverse language generation and understanding tasks. Yet effective code-switching requires more than…

cs.LG2026

KANLab: TensorFlow Playground for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Lukas Niehaus, Robin Rawiel, Ulf Krumnack

KANLab is a browser-based visualization tool designed to interactively teach the core concepts of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN), forked from the widely successful TensorFlow Pla…

cs.CL2026

TRACESTEER: Trace Driven Activation Steering for Hallucination Mitigation in Diffusion Language Models

Xin Zhang, Yili Wang, Yue Tan +5

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive LLMs, yet remain susceptible to hallucination. Activation steering offers a promis…

cs.AI2026

More Choices, Fewer Decisions: Ordinal-Scale Bias in JEV-like Direct-Decision Models

Tianxiang Gao, Jinzhe Li, Zhiyuan Li +2

Direct-decision models enable efficient classification and evaluation by selecting from predefined candidates, but their reliability depends on more than prediction accuracy. Acros…

cs.AI2026

ConflictVLA-Bench: Benchmarking Behavioral Responses of Vision-Language-Action Models to Premise Conflicts

Liyu Hou, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models perform strongly on manipulation tasks, their responses to invalid task premises remain underexplored. Existing evaluations of premise con…

cs.CL2026

What if LLMs Ate Their Words: Causal History Effects in Multi-Turn Interaction

Jinnan Li, Zheren Fu, Yue Wang +3

Multi-turn interaction creates a feedback process in which an LLM's previous responses become context for later behavior. Prior work shows substantial multi-turn degradation and th…

cs.AI2026

RPCBench: A Benchmark for Proactive Premise Critique in LLM-based Recommendation

Zhongru Chen, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Large language models are increasingly used as interactive recommender assistants. Their evaluation should therefore go beyond plausible item recommendation and test whether they c…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Blind Compliance: Benchmarking Task Verification in OCR Reasoning

Yue Zhou, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-centric document understanding and text-rich visual reasoning benchmarks. Yet existing evaluations…

cs.CL2026

OCR-MetaReasoning Benchmark: Evaluating the Meta-Reasoning Ability of MLLMs in Text-Rich Image Understanding

Gengxu Li, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Text-rich image understanding requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to organize OCR (Optical Character Recognition)-grounded evidence across words, layout, fields, char…

cs.AI2026

MMPCBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models on Proactive Critique of Flawed Inputs

Jinzhe Li, Gengxu Li, Jinnan Li +2

As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) evolve into sophisticated interactive assistants, their reliability depends not only on following instructions but also on validating th…

cs.AI2026

CaSKG: Counterfactual-Causal Skill Graphs for Scalable Agent Skill Retrieval

Zhiyuan Li, Linyuan Gao, Xuechun Ding +3

Reusable skill libraries allow large language model (LLM) agents to reuse procedural knowledge across tasks, but they also turn memory access into a challenging retrieval problem.…

cs.SE2026

ToolRobustBench: Stage-Wise Perturbation Evaluation and Failure Diagnosis for Tool-Calling Agents

YiShan Zheng, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Large language models (LLMs) rely on tool calling as a fundamental agent capability, enabling them to invoke external systems and complete tasks beyond text generation. However, cl…

cs.CL2026

How Agents Represent Humans: Human-Directed Stereotypes in an Open Agent Social Network

Huangchen Xu, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in persistent social environments, where generated claims can be posted, replied to, remembered, and reused. We study human-directed ster…

cs.LG2026

CD-LoRA: Consistency-Driven Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Task Fine-Tuning

Qian Zha, Jinda Liu, Yuan Wu +1

While Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is essential for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to diverse domains, prevailing LoRA-based methods rely on complex routing mechanisms that par…

cs.CL2026

Thinking vs. NoThinking: Towards Interpreting Reasoning Mechanisms of Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders

Bo Cheng, Qiaolin Lu, Yi Chang +1

While Large Language Models (LLMs) employing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) exhibit superior reasoning capabilities, the neural mechanisms distinguishing this explicit Thinking mode from d…

cs.CL2026

DeMTS: Denoising Trajectories as Multivariate Time Series for Hallucination Detection in Diffusion Language Models

Xin Zhang, Yili Wang, Yue Tan +6

Diffusion large language models (D-LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for text generation. However, similar to autoregressive LLMs, D-LLMs remain vulnerable to hallucinatio…

cs.LG2026

SOS-LoRA: Static Orthogonal-Subspace Low-Rank Adaptation with Fixed Multi-Scale Scaling

Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method for large language models. Under a fixed rank budget, LoRA parameterizes each adapted weig…

cs.AI2026

BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards

Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Critic-free reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), exemplified by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), avoids training a value function (critic) and reduces m…

cs.CV2026

How Robust is OCR-Reasoning? Evaluating OCR-Reasoning Robustness of Vision-Language Models under Visual Perturbations

Yuxing Cheng, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-based benchmarks and increasingly focused on text-rich understanding, but their robustness under controlled vi…

cs.CL2026

A Systematic Evaluation of Positional Bias in Multi-Video Summarization with MLLMs

Huangchen Xu, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly used for video understanding, yet their reliability under multi-video inputs remains poorly understood. We study positiona…

cs.CL2026

VCIFBench: Evaluating Complex Instruction Following for Video Understanding

Huangchen Xu, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

Multimodal large language models have made rapid progress in video understanding, yet existing benchmarks largely rely on simple prompts and provide limited evidence about whether…

cs.SE2026

ClarEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Clarification Skills of Code Agents under Ambiguous Instructions

Jialin Li, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

To integrate seamlessly into real-world software engineering, Code Agents must evolve from passive instruction followers into proactive collaborative partners. However, current eva…

cs.LG2026

AGGC: Adaptive Group Gradient Clipping for Stabilizing Large Language Model Training

Zhiyuan Li, Yuan Wu, Yi Chang

To stabilize the training of Large Language Models (LLMs), gradient clipping is a nearly ubiquitous heuristic used to alleviate exploding gradients. However, traditional global nor…