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most citedThe Curious Case of Nonverbal Abstract Reasoning with Multi-Modal Large Language Models

3 citations · 4 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

Enhancing Structural Mapping with LLM-derived Abstractions for Analogical Reasoning in Narratives

Mohammadhossein Khojasteh, Yifan Jiang, Stefano De Giorgis +2

Analogical reasoning is a key driver of human generalization in problem-solving and argumentation. Yet, analogies between narrative structures remain challenging for machines. Cogn…

cs.CV2026

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…

cs.CV2026

LFS: Learnable Frame Selector for Event-Aware and Temporally Diverse Video Captioning

Lianying Chao, Linfeng Yin, Peiyu Ren +8

Video captioning models convert frames into visual tokens and generate descriptions with large language models (LLMs). Since encoding all frames is prohibitively expensive, uniform…

cs.CV2025

FUSE-RSVLM: Feature Fusion Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing

Yunkai Dang, Donghao Wang, Jiacheng Yang +7

Large vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong performance across various tasks. However, these VLMs encounter significant challenges when applied to the remote sensing domain…

cs.CV2025

VIDEOP2R: Video Understanding from Perception to Reasoning

Yifan Jiang, Yueying Wang, Rui Zhao +4

Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT), a two-stage framework consisting of supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results on improving reasoning…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts

Fan Yuan, Yuchen Yan, Yifan Jiang +9

Mathematical reasoning is a key capability for vision-language models (VLMs), yet current benchmarks mainly evaluate text-based or explicitly symbolic visual inputs. It remains unc…

cs.RO2025

ZS-Puffin: Design, Modeling and Implementation of an Unmanned Aerial-Aquatic Vehicle with Amphibious Wings

Zhenjiang Wang, Yunhua Jiang, Zikun Zhen +3

Unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicles (UAAVs) can operate both in the air and underwater, giving them broad application prospects. Inspired by the dual-function wings of puffins, we pro…

cs.CV2025

A Study of Commonsense Reasoning over Visual Object Properties

Abhishek Kolari, Mohammadhossein Khojasteh, Yifan Jiang +2

Inspired by human categorization, visual reasoning about object properties, such as physical attributes and functions, involves identifying and recognizing low-level details and hi…

cs.CV2025

Graph-Guided Dual-Level Augmentation for 3D Scene Segmentation

Hongbin Lin, Yifan Jiang, Juangui Xu +5

3D point cloud segmentation aims to assign semantic labels to individual points in a scene for fine-grained spatial understanding. Existing methods typically adopt data augmentatio…

cs.AI2025

Animation Needs Attention: A Holistic Approach to Slides Animation Comprehension with Visual-Language Models

Yifan Jiang, Yibo Xue, Yukun Kang +4

Slide animations, such as fade-in, fly-in, and wipe, are critical for audience engagement, efficient information delivery, and vivid visual expression. However, most AI-driven slid…

cs.CV2025

DiMeR: Disentangled Mesh Reconstruction Model

Lutao Jiang, Jiantao Lin, Kanghao Chen +7

We propose DiMeR, a novel geometry-texture disentangled feed-forward model with 3D supervision for sparse-view mesh reconstruction. Existing methods confront two persistent obstacl…

cs.CV2024

COLUMBUS: Evaluating COgnitive Lateral Understanding through Multiple-choice reBUSes

Koen Kraaijveld, Yifan Jiang, Kaixin Ma +1

While visual question-answering (VQA) benchmarks have catalyzed the development of reasoning techniques, they have focused on vertical thinking. Effective problem-solving also nece…

cs.CV2024

MARVEL: Multidimensional Abstraction and Reasoning through Visual Evaluation and Learning

Yifan Jiang, Jiarui Zhang, Kexuan Sun +5

While multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown significant progress on many popular visual reasoning benchmarks, whether they possess abstract visual reasoning abilitie…

cs.AI2024

SemEval-2024 Task 9: BRAINTEASER: A Novel Task Defying Common Sense

Yifan Jiang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma

While vertical thinking relies on logical and commonsense reasoning, lateral thinking requires systems to defy commonsense associations and overwrite them through unconventional th…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

The Curious Case of Nonverbal Abstract Reasoning with Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Kian Ahrabian, Zhivar Sourati, Kexuan Sun +4

While large language models (LLMs) are still being adopted to new domains and utilized in novel applications, we are experiencing an influx of the new generation of foundation mode…

cs.CL2023

BRAINTEASER: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models

Yifan Jiang, Filip Ilievski, Kaixin Ma +1

The success of language models has inspired the NLP community to attend to tasks that require implicit and complex reasoning, relying on human-like commonsense mechanisms. While su…