19 papers
Pix2Fact: When Vision Is Not Enough -- Benchmarking Fine-Grained VQA with Web Verification on High-Resolution Real-World Scenes
Yifan Jiang, Cong Zhang, Bofei Zhang +4
Despite progress on general tasks, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with challenges that demand both fine-grained visual grounding and external knowledge, a synergy ove…
Influence Strength Estimation in Hyperbolic Space for Social Influence Maximization
Hongliang Qiao, Shanshan Feng, Min Zhou +5
The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims to find a small set of influential users to maximize their influence spread in a social network. Traditional methods rely on fixed diff…
BARREL: Boundary-Aware Reasoning for Factual and Reliable LRMs
Junxiao Yang, Jinzhe Tu, Haoran Liu +9
Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in mathematical and logical reasoning. However, current LRMs rarely admit ignorance or respond w…
An Agentic Framework with LLMs for Solving Complex Vehicle Routing Problems
Ni Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Jianan Zhou +2
Complex vehicle routing problems (VRPs) remain a fundamental challenge, demanding substantial expert effort for intent interpretation and algorithm design. While large language mod…
VulReaD: Knowledge-Graph-guided Software Vulnerability Reasoning and Detection
Samal Mukhtar, Yinghua Yao, Zhu Sun +3
Software vulnerability detection (SVD) is a critical challenge in modern systems. Large language models (LLMs) offer natural-language explanations alongside predictions, but most w…
The Digital Ecosystem of Beliefs: does evolution favour AI over humans?
David M. Bossens, Shanshan Feng, Yew-Soon Ong
As AI systems are integrated into social networks, there are AI safety concerns that AI-generated content may dominate the web, e.g. in popularity or impact on beliefs. To understa…