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most citedEchoBench: Benchmarking Sycophancy in Medical Large Vision-Language Models

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cs.CC2026

On the average-case complexity landscape for Tensor-Isomorphism-complete problems over finite fields

Tiange Li, Yinan Li, Youming Qiao +2

In Grochow and Qiao (SIAM J. Comput., 2021), the complexity class Tensor Isomorphism (TI) was introduced and isomorphism problems for groups, algebras, and polynomials were shown t…

cs.CV2026

BadCLIP++: Stealthy and Persistent Backdoors in Multimodal Contrastive Learning

Siyuan Liang, Yongcheng Jing, Yingjie Wang +3

Research on backdoor attacks against multimodal contrastive learning models faces two key challenges: stealthiness and persistence. Existing methods often fail under strong detecti…

cs.AI2026

Why Self-Rewarding Works: Theoretical Guarantees for Iterative Alignment of Language Models

Shi Fu, Yingjie Wang, Shengchao Hu +2

Self-Rewarding Language Models (SRLMs) achieve notable success in iteratively improving alignment without external feedback. Yet, despite their striking empirical progress, the cor…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

EchoBench: Benchmarking Sycophancy in Medical Large Vision-Language Models

Botai Yuan, Yutian Zhou, Yingjie Wang +9

Recent benchmarks for medical Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) emphasize leaderboard accuracy, overlooking reliability and safety. We study sycophancy -- models' tendency to un…

cs.LG2025

CoVeR: Conformal Calibration for Versatile and Reliable Autoregressive Next-Token Prediction

Yuzhu Chen, Yingjie Wang, Shunyu Liu +2

Autoregressive pre-trained models combined with decoding methods have achieved impressive performance on complex reasoning tasks. While mainstream decoding strategies such as beam…

cs.AI2025

Consistent Paths Lead to Truth: Self-Rewarding Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

Kongcheng Zhang, Qi Yao, Shunyu Liu +5

Recent advances of Reinforcement Learning (RL) have highlighted its potential in complex reasoning tasks, yet effective training often relies on external supervision, which limits…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Reasoning Agent for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval

Rong-Cheng Tu, Wenhao Sun, Hanzhe You +4

Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve target images given a compositional query, consisting of a reference image and a modifying text-without relying on anno…

cs.CV2025

MLLM-Guided VLM Fine-Tuning with Joint Inference for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval

Rong-Cheng Tu, Zhao Jin, Jingyi Liao +4

Existing Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) methods typically train adapters that convert reference images into pseudo-text tokens, which are concatenated with the modifyi…

cs.AI2025

Benchmarking Reasoning Robustness in Large Language Models

Tong Yu, Yongcheng Jing, Xikun Zhang +6

Despite the recent success of large language models (LLMs) in reasoning such as DeepSeek, we for the first time identify a key dilemma in reasoning robustness and generalization: s…

cs.AI2025

Graph-Augmented Reasoning: Evolving Step-by-Step Knowledge Graph Retrieval for LLM Reasoning

Wenjie Wu, Yongcheng Jing, Yingjie Wang +2

Recent large language model (LLM) reasoning, despite its success, suffers from limited domain knowledge, susceptibility to hallucinations, and constrained reasoning depth, particul…

cs.CV2025

Retrieval-Augmented Perception: High-Resolution Image Perception Meets Visual RAG

Wenbin Wang, Yongcheng Jing, Liang Ding +5

High-resolution (HR) image perception remains a key challenge in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To overcome the limitations of existing methods, this paper shifts away f…

cs.AI2025

Dynamic Parallel Tree Search for Efficient LLM Reasoning

Yifu Ding, Wentao Jiang, Shunyu Liu +9

Tree of Thoughts (ToT) enhances Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning by structuring problem-solving as a spanning tree. However, recent methods focus on search accuracy while overl…

cs.LG2025

A Theoretical Perspective: How to Prevent Model Collapse in Self-consuming Training Loops

Shi Fu, Yingjie Wang, Yuzhu Chen +2

High-quality data is essential for training large generative models, yet the vast reservoir of real data available online has become nearly depleted. Consequently, models increasin…

cs.CL2025

Erasing Without Remembering: Implicit Knowledge Forgetting in Large Language Models

Huazheng Wang, Yongcheng Jing, Haifeng Sun +4

In this paper, we investigate knowledge forgetting in large language models with a focus on its generalisation, ensuring that models forget not only specific training samples but a…

cs.LG2025

HRP: High-Rank Preheating for Superior LoRA Initialization

Yuzhu Chen, Yingjie Wang, Shi Fu +4

This paper studies the crucial impact of initialization in Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Through theoretical analysis, we demonstrate that the fine-tuned result of LoRA is highly sen…

cs.CV2024

Mulberry: Empowering MLLM with o1-like Reasoning and Reflection via Collective Monte Carlo Tree Search

Huanjin Yao, Jiaxing Huang, Wenhao Wu +8

In this work, we aim to develop an MLLM that understands and solves questions by learning to create each intermediate step of the reasoning involved till the final answer. To this…

cs.LG2024

A Theoretical Survey on Foundation Models

Shi Fu, Yuzhu Chen, Yingjie Wang +1

Understanding the inner mechanisms of black-box foundation models (FMs) is essential yet challenging in artificial intelligence and its applications. Over the last decade, the long…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Towards Theoretical Understandings of Self-Consuming Generative Models

Shi Fu, Sen Zhang, Yingjie Wang +2

This paper tackles the emerging challenge of training generative models within a self-consuming loop, wherein successive generations of models are recursively trained on mixtures o…