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most citedVideo Understanding with Large Language Models: A Survey

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27 papers

cs.SE2026

VerifierBench: Benchmarking the Generation of Executable Verifiers for LLM Agents

Jianing Yin, Ziyi Chen, Hao Wang +4

Agents need reliable ways to validate their outputs, both when completing tasks and when filtering synthetic training data. We study verifier generation: from the instruction and e…

cs.CL2026

Many Steps into One: Reasoning Contraction and the Limits of Safe Memory Reuse for LLM Agents

Jianghong Zhou, Hao Rong, Chen Lin +1

Thought templates, skill libraries, agent memories and caches turn many reasoning steps into one. We call this reasoning contraction. A contracted memory saves reasoning steps and…

cs.CY2026

The Imperishable Record, Forgiveness, and the Future of Criminal Justice

Mark Fenwick, Paulius Jurcys, Sebastian Porsdam Mann

Digital technologies can preserve records of wrongdoing indefinitely, and AI can give those records continuing influence over a person's future. We describe this condition as the e…

cs.AI2026

Words to World: Benchmarking LLMs in Interactive Physical Environments

Xinnan Dai, Kaiqi Yang, Yaxin Li +9

Words are increasingly becoming an interface for action: large language models (LLMs) can now invoke tools, operate devices, and make decisions that affect the physical world. Howe…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Oracle Communication: Benchmarking Interactive Intent Alignment Under Miscommunication and Evolving User Intent

Zheyuan Zhang, Mengyuan Chao, Ke Xiao +5

Modern LLM agents increasingly tackle complex tasks through interactive, long-horizon exchanges with users, while existing benchmarks generally assume that users always accurately…

cs.AI2026

TraceDance: An Automated System for Building Agent Behavior Benchmarks from Real-World Agent Deployment Traces

Dehai Min, Daoan Zhang, Yiming Zeng +13

An agent can complete a task while exhibiting undesirable behavior during execution. Developers need tests for the specific behaviors encountered in deployment, beyond fixed benchm…

cs.LG2026

Self-Boosting Vision-Language Models with Noisy Student On-Policy Self-Distillation

Shuai Wang, Daoan Zhang, Zhe Tang +2

Post-training enables vision-language models (VLMs) to understand human instructions and perform various downstream tasks. Current post-training methods usually rely on human-annot…

cs.CV2026

VideoWeaver: Evaluating and Evolving Skills for Agentic Long Video Generation

Jianhui Wei, Jie Tan, Hengchuan Zhu +7

Agentic long video generation requires planning, tool orchestration, and cross-clip coordination over a long horizon. Most existing video agents either rely on static, human-crafte…

cs.CV2026

How Far Are Video Models from True Multimodal Reasoning?

Xiaotian Zhang, Jianhui Wei, Yuan Wang +9

Despite remarkable progress toward general-purpose video models, a critical question remains unanswered: how far are these models from achieving true multimodal reasoning? Existing…

cs.SE2026

Sphinx: Benchmarking and Modeling for LLM-Driven Pull Request Review

Daoan Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Zijian Jin +3

Pull request (PR) review is essential for ensuring software quality, yet automating this task remains challenging due to noisy supervision, limited contextual understanding, and in…

cs.CV2026

A Versatile Multimodal Agent for Multimedia Content Generation

Daoan Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Xiaoyang Wang +3

With the advancement of AIGC (AI-generated content) technologies, an increasing number of generative models are revolutionizing fields such as video editing, music generation, and…

cs.CV2026

VisualActBench: Can VLMs See and Act like a Human?

Daoan Zhang, Pai Liu, Xiaofei Zhou +6

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive progress in perceiving and describing visual environments. However, their ability to proactively reason and act based solely…

cs.CV2026

JavisGPT: A Unified Multi-modal LLM for Sounding-Video Comprehension and Generation

Kai Liu, Jungang Li, Yuchong Sun +13

This paper presents JavisGPT, the first unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) for joint audio-video (JAV) comprehension and generation. JavisGPT has a concise encoder-LLM-…

cs.CV2025

LAST: LeArning to Think in Space and Time for Generalist Vision-Language Models

Shuai Wang, Daoan Zhang, Tianyi Bai +3

Humans can perceive and understand 3D space and long videos from sequential visual observations. But do vision-language models (VLMs) can? Recent work demonstrates that even state-…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

UniVA: Universal Video Agent towards Open-Source Next-Generation Video Generalist

Zhengyang Liang, Daoan Zhang, Huichi Zhou +8

While specialized AI models excel at isolated video tasks like generation or understanding, real-world applications demand complex, iterative workflows that combine these capabilit…

cs.LG2025

MaPPO: Maximum a Posteriori Preference Optimization with Prior Knowledge

Guangchen Lan, Sipeng Zhang, Tianle Wang +7

As the era of large language models (LLMs) unfolds, Preference Optimization (PO) methods have become a central approach to aligning LLMs with human preferences and improving perfor…

cs.CV2025

On Path to Multimodal Generalist: General-Level and General-Bench

Hao Fei, Yuan Zhou, Juncheng Li +29

The Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) is currently experiencing rapid growth, driven by the advanced capabilities of LLMs. Unlike earlier specialists, existing MLLMs are evolv…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

WorldGenBench: A World-Knowledge-Integrated Benchmark for Reasoning-Driven Text-to-Image Generation

Daoan Zhang, Che Jiang, Ruoshi Xu +7

Recent text-to-image (T2I) models achieve high visual fidelity and accurate explicit grounding from input prompts. However, image generation is fundamentally a process of semantic…

cs.CL2025

Why Reasoning Matters? A Survey of Advancements in Multimodal Reasoning (v1)

Jing Bi, Susan Liang, Xiaofei Zhou +16

Reasoning is central to human intelligence, enabling structured problem-solving across diverse tasks. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced their re…

cs.CL2025

Code to Think, Think to Code: A Survey on Code-Enhanced Reasoning and Reasoning-Driven Code Intelligence in LLMs

Dayu Yang, Tianyang Liu, Daoan Zhang +8

In large language models (LLMs), code and reasoning reinforce each other: code offers an abstract, modular, and logic-driven structure that supports reasoning, while reasoning tran…

cs.CV2024

Bridging SFT and DPO for Diffusion Model Alignment with Self-Sampling Preference Optimization

Daoan Zhang, Guangchen Lan, Dong-Jun Han +8

Existing post-training techniques are broadly categorized into supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) methods; the former is stable during training but suffer…

cs.CL2024

DeFine: Decision-Making with Analogical Reasoning over Factor Profiles

Yebowen Hu, Xiaoyang Wang, Wenlin Yao +5

LLMs are ideal for decision-making thanks to their ability to reason over long contexts. However, challenges arise when processing speech transcripts that describe complex scenario…

cs.CV2024

FINEMATCH: Aspect-based Fine-grained Image and Text Mismatch Detection and Correction

Hang Hua, Jing Shi, Kushal Kafle +5

Recent progress in large-scale pre-training has led to the development of advanced vision-language models (VLMs) with remarkable proficiency in comprehending and generating multimo…

cs.CV2024

GaussianStyle: Gaussian Head Avatar via StyleGAN

Pinxin Liu, Luchuan Song, Daoan Zhang +5

Existing methods like Neural Radiation Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made significant strides in facial attribute control such as facial animation and compone…