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cs.CL2026

Self-Authored Verification Is Unreliable in Heuristic Self-Improving Agents

Diandian Guo, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan +3

Self-improving agents accumulate capability by repeatedly rewriting procedural policies, controllers, or heuristic rules. They typically rely on self-authored tests or metrics to d…

cs.CL2026

Does Faithfulness-Guided Alignment Hurt Accuracy? Unlocking Accurate and Faithful Post-Retrieval Reasoning

Yu Liu, Wenxiao Zhang, Diandian Guo +6

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can achieve strong answer accuracy on multi-hop questions, but outcome-level rewards often leave reasoning traces weakly grounded and difficult…

cs.CL2026

MuVaC: A Variational Causal Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding in Dialogues

Diandian Guo, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao +5

The prevalence of sarcasm in multimodal dialogues on the social platforms presents a crucial yet challenging task for understanding the true intent behind online content. Comprehen…

cs.CL2025

Emotion Transfer with Enhanced Prototype for Unseen Emotion Recognition in Conversation

Kun Peng, Cong Cao, Hao Peng +5

Current Emotion Recognition in Conversation (ERC) research follows a closed-domain assumption. However, there is no clear consensus on emotion classification in psychology, which p…

cs.CL2025

Dialogues Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Extraction via Structural Entropy Minimization Partitioning

Kun Peng, Cong Cao, Hao Peng +5

Dialogues Aspect-based Sentiment Quadruple Extraction (DiaASQ) aims to extract all target-aspect-opinion-sentiment quadruples from a given multi-round, multi-participant dialogue.…

cs.CL2025

T-T: Table Transformer for Tagging-based Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction

Kun Peng, Chaodong Tong, Cong Cao +6

Aspect sentiment triplet extraction (ASTE) aims to extract triplets composed of aspect terms, opinion terms, and sentiment polarities from given sentences. The table tagging method…