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20162026
most citedThe MGB-2 Challenge: Arabic Multi-Dialect Broadcast Media Recognition

7 citations · 19 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cs.CV2026

GeoEyes: On-Demand Visual Focusing for Evidence-Grounded Understanding of Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

Fengxiang Wang, Mingshuo Chen, Yueying Li +10

The "thinking-with-images" paradigm enables multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to actively explore visual scenes via zoom-in tools. This is essential for ultra-high-resolutio…

cs.AI2026

Text Before Vision: Staged Knowledge Injection Matters for Agentic RLVR in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding

Fengxiang Wang, Mingshuo Chen, Yueying Li +13

Multimodal reasoning for ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote sensing (RS) is usually bottlenecked by visual evidence acquisition: the model necessitates localizing tiny task-relevan…

cs.CV2026

MCIE: Multimodal LLM-Driven Complex Instruction Image Editing with Spatial Guidance

Xuehai Bai, Xiaoling Gu, Akide Liu +3

Recent advances in instruction-based image editing have shown remarkable progress. However, existing methods remain limited to relatively simple editing operations, hindering real-…

cs.CL2026

Small Updates, Big Doubts: Does Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning Enhance Hallucination Detection ?

Xu Hu, Yifan Zhang, Songtao Wei +4

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods are widely used to adapt large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks and are often assumed to improve factual correctness. Howev…

cs.LG2026

SnapMLA: Efficient Long-Context MLA Decoding via Hardware-Aware FP8 Quantized Pipelining

Yifan Zhang, Zunhai Su, Shuhao Hu +5

While FP8 attention has shown substantial promise in innovations like FlashAttention-3, its integration into the decoding phase of the DeepSeek Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) ar…

eess.SY2026

ProOPF: Benchmarking and Improving LLMs for Professional-Grade Power Systems Optimization Modeling

Chao Shen, Zihan Guo, Xu Wan +6

Growing renewable penetration introduces substantial uncertainty into power system operations, necessitating frequent adaptation of dispatch objectives and constraints and challeng…

cs.CL2026

PACER: Blockwise Pre-verification for Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Length

Situo Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Zichen Zhu +5

Speculative decoding (SD) is a powerful technique for accelerating the inference process of large language models (LLMs) without sacrificing accuracy. Typically, SD employs a small…

cs.CR2026

SMCP: Secure Model Context Protocol

Xinyi Hou, Shenao Wang, Yifan Zhang +4

Agentic AI systems built around large language models (LLMs) are moving away from closed, single-model frameworks and toward open ecosystems that connect a variety of agents, exter…

cs.AI2025

SPIRAL: Symbolic LLM Planning via Grounded and Reflective Search

Yifan Zhang, Giridhar Ganapavarapu, Srideepika Jayaraman +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) often falter at complex planning tasks that require exploration and self-correction, as their linear reasoning process struggles to recover from early…

cs.CV2025

Explicit Temporal-Semantic Modeling for Dense Video Captioning via Context-Aware Cross-Modal Interaction

Mingda Jia, Weiliang Meng, Zenghuang Fu +7

Dense video captioning jointly localizes and captions salient events in untrimmed videos. Recent methods primarily focus on leveraging additional prior knowledge and advanced multi…

cs.CV2025

LongVT: Incentivizing "Thinking with Long Videos" via Native Tool Calling

Zuhao Yang, Sudong Wang, Kaichen Zhang +8

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown great potential for video reasoning with textual Chain-of-Thought. However, they remain vulnerable to hallucinations, especially when proc…

cs.CL2025

Reinforcement Learning from Compiler and Language Server Feedback

Yifan Zhang, Lanser Contributors

Coding agents fail when text-level guesses outrun program facts: they hallucinate APIs, drift to the wrong symbol, and apply edits without evidence that the workspace remains valid…

cs.CL2025

Mental Multi-class Classification on Social Media: Benchmarking Transformer Architectures against LSTM Models

Khalid Hasan, Jamil Saquer, Yifan Zhang

Millions of people openly share mental health struggles on social media, providing rich data for early detection of conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, etc. However, m…

cs.CV2025

Gradient-Attention Guided Dual-Masking Synergetic Framework for Robust Text-based Person Retrieval

Tianlu Zheng, Yifan Zhang, Xiang An +3

Although Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) exhibits strong performance across diverse vision tasks, its application to person representation learning faces two critica…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

A Survey on Large Language Model Benchmarks

Shiwen Ni, Guhong Chen, Shuaimin Li +11

In recent years, with the rapid development of the depth and breadth of large language models' capabilities, various corresponding evaluation benchmarks have been emerging in incre…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Single Agent Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning for Bus Fleet Control

Yifan Zhang, Liang Zheng, Qifan Zhang

Bus bunching remains a challenge for urban transit due to stochastic traffic and passenger demand. Traditional solutions rely on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in loop-l…

cs.CL2025

From KMMLU-Redux to KMMLU-Pro: A Professional Korean Benchmark Suite for LLM Evaluation

Seokhee Hong, Sunkyoung Kim, Guijin Son +3

The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires robust benchmarks that encompass not only academic domains but also industrial fields to effectively evaluate their applica…

cs.LG2025

A Markov Categorical Framework for Language Modeling

Yifan Zhang

Autoregressive language models achieve remarkable performance, yet a unified theory explaining their internal mechanisms, how training shapes representations, and why these represe…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Assay2Mol: large language model-based drug design using BioAssay context

Yifan Deng, Spencer S. Ericksen, Anthony Gitter

Scientific databases aggregate vast amounts of quantitative data alongside descriptive text. In biochemistry, molecule screening assays evaluate candidate molecules' functional res…

cs.AI2025

MemeReaCon: Probing Contextual Meme Understanding in Large Vision-Language Models

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Yuxi Zhang +10

Memes have emerged as a popular form of multimodal online communication, where their interpretation heavily depends on the specific context in which they appear. Current approaches…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

CONSTRUCTA: Automating Commercial Construction Schedules in Fabrication Facilities with Large Language Models

Yifan Zhang, Xue Yang

Automating planning with LLMs presents transformative opportunities for traditional industries, yet remains underexplored. In commercial construction, the complexity of automated s…

cs.CL2025★ 5 cited

Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform

Fanar Team, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +39

We present Fanar, a platform for Arabic-centric multimodal generative AI systems, that supports language, speech and image generation tasks. At the heart of Fanar are Fanar Star an…

cs.CL2024

Training and Evaluating Language Models with Template-based Data Generation

Yifan Zhang

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, PaLM, and Llama has significantly transformed natural language processing, showcasing remarkable capabilities i…

cs.CL2024

DecorateLM: Data Engineering through Corpus Rating, Tagging, and Editing with Language Models

Ranchi Zhao, Zhen Leng Thai, Yifan Zhang +6

The performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) is substantially influenced by the pretraining corpus, which consists of vast quantities of unsupervised data processed by the model…