3 papers
cs.CV2026
UniT: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Test-time Scaling
Leon Liangyu Chen, Haoyu Ma, Zhipeng Fan +11
Unified models can handle both multimodal understanding and generation within a single architecture, yet they typically operate in a single pass without iteratively refining their…
cs.CV2026
Learning Sparse Visual Representations via Spatial-Semantic Factorization
Theodore Zhengde Zhao, Sid Kiblawi, Jianwei Yang +6
Self-supervised learning (SSL) faces a fundamental conflict between semantic understanding and image reconstruction. High-level semantic SSL (e.g., DINO) relies on global tokens th…
cs.CL2026
Provable Defense Framework for LLM Jailbreaks via Noise-Augumented Alignment
Zehua Cheng, Jianwei Yang, Wei Dai +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adaptive jailbreaks that easily bypass empirical defenses like GCG. We propose a framework for certifiable robustness that shifts…