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most citedVision-Flan: Scaling Human-Labeled Tasks in Visual Instruction Tuning

2 citations · 8 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CV2026

VideoHarness-SRSI: Structured Recursive Self-Improvement for Video Understanding Harness

Zihao Lin, Haoyu Dong, Haobo Xu +10

LLM system capabilities depend not only on model parameters but also on the executable harnesses that organize information acquisition, tool use, reasoning, and memory. Recursive h…

cs.MA2026

GLANCE: A Global-Local Coordination Multi-Agent Framework for Music-Grounded Non-Linear Video Editing

Zihao Lin, Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu +7

Music-grounded mashup video creation is a challenging form of video non-linear editing, where a system must compose a coherent timeline from large collections of source videos whil…

cs.AI2026

IR: Contrastive Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Interpretable Detection and Mitigation of Reward Hacking

Mohammad Beigi, Ming Jin, Junshan Zhang +3

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) enables powerful LLM alignment but can introduce reward hacking - models exploit spurious correlations in proxy rewards without ge…

cs.AI2026

Adversarial Reward Auditing for Active Detection and Mitigation of Reward Hacking

Mohammad Beigi, Ming Jin, Junshan Zhang +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) remains vulnerable to reward hacking, where models exploit spurious correlations in learned reward models to achieve high scores w…

cs.CL2026

How Do Large Language Models Learn Concepts During Continual Pre-Training?

Barry Menglong Yao, Sha Li, Yunzhi Yao +4

Human beings primarily understand the world through concepts (e.g., dog), abstract mental representations that structure perception, reasoning, and learning. However, how large lan…

cs.AI2025

Sycophancy Mitigation Through Reinforcement Learning with Uncertainty-Aware Adaptive Reasoning Trajectories

Mohammad Beigi, Ying Shen, Parshin Shojaee +5

Despite the remarkable capabilities of large language models, current training paradigms inadvertently foster \textit{sycophancy}, i.e., the tendency of a model to agree with or re…

cs.CV2025

Pisces: An Auto-regressive Foundation Model for Image Understanding and Generation

Zhiyang Xu, Jiuhai Chen, Zhaojiang Lin +10

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled multimodal foundation models to tackle both image understanding and generation within a unified framework. Despite thes…

cs.CV2025

AR-RAG: Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation for Image Generation

Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Qifan Wang +1

We introduce Autoregressive Retrieval Augmentation (AR-RAG), a novel paradigm that enhances image generation by autoregressively incorporating knearest neighbor retrievals at the p…

cs.CL2024

Error-driven Data-efficient Large Multimodal Model Tuning

Barry Menglong Yao, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across numerous academic benchmarks. However, fine-tuning still remains essential to achieve satisfactory pe…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

RoRA-VLM: Robust Retrieval-Augmented Vision Language Models

Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Rulin Shao +5

Current vision-language models (VLMs) still exhibit inferior performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, primarily due to the challenge of accurately encoding all the associations be…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Grounded-VideoLLM: Sharpening Fine-grained Temporal Grounding in Video Large Language Models

Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu, Yu Cheng +6

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in coarse-grained video understanding, however, they struggle with fine-grained temporal groundin…

cs.CL2024

Modality-Specialized Synergizers for Interleaved Vision-Language Generalists

Zhiyang Xu, Minqian Liu, Ying Shen +5

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have led to the emergence of Vision-Language Generalists (VLGs) capable of understanding and generating both text and images. H…

cs.CL2024

InternalInspector : Robust Confidence Estimation in LLMs through Internal States

Mohammad Beigi, Ying Shen, Runing Yang +7

Despite their vast capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with generating reliable outputs, frequently producing high-confidence inaccuracies known as hallucinat…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Vision-Flan: Scaling Human-Labeled Tasks in Visual Instruction Tuning

Zhiyang Xu, Chao Feng, Rulin Shao +6

Despite vision-language models' (VLMs) remarkable capabilities as versatile visual assistants, two substantial challenges persist within the existing VLM frameworks: (1) lacking ta…

cs.CL2024

Navigating the Dual Facets: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Sequential Memory Editing in Large Language Models

Zihao Lin, Mohammad Beigi, Hongxuan Li +5

Memory Editing (ME) has emerged as an efficient method to modify erroneous facts or inject new facts into Large Language Models (LLMs). Two mainstream ME methods exist: parameter-m…

cs.CV2024

Multimodal Instruction Tuning with Conditional Mixture of LoRA

Ying Shen, Zhiyang Xu, Qifan Wang +3

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in diverse tasks across different domains, with an increasing focus on improving their zero-shot g…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

The Art of SOCRATIC QUESTIONING: Recursive Thinking with Large Language Models

Jingyuan Qi, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen +4

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enables large language models to solve complex reasoning problems by generating intermediate steps. However, confined by its inherent single-pass a…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

AMELI: Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Fine-Grained Attributes

Barry Menglong Yao, Sijia Wang, Yu Chen +5

We propose attribute-aware multimodal entity linking, where the input consists of a mention described with a text paragraph and images, and the goal is to predict the corresponding…