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most citedWhen ControlNet Meets Inexplicit Masks: A Case Study of ControlNet on its Contour-following Ability

3 citations · 8 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

SkillCAT: Contrastive, Assessment-Augmented and Topology-AwareSkill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

Kunfeng Chen, Qihuang Zhong, Juhua Liu +1

Skill self-evolution methods for LLM agents aim to turn execution trajectories into reusable skill documents. However, current pipelines typically derive skill patches from a singl…

cs.CL2026

ConRAG: Consensus-Driven Evidence Flow for Multi-Hop Question Answering

Yikai Zhu, Kunfeng Chen, Qihuang Zhong +2

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing large language models (LLMs) on multi-hop question answering (QA), which requires reasoning o…

cs.CL2026

Better, Faster: Harnessing Self-Improvement in Large Reasoning Models

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Juhua Liu +3

Self-improvement training enables the large reasoning models (LRMs) to improve themselves by self-generating reasoning trajectories as training data without external supervision. H…

cs.CV2026

UHR-Micro: Diagnosing and Mitigating the Resolution Illusion in Earth Observation VLMs

Shuo Ni, Tong Wang, Jing Zhang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used to analyze ultra-high-resolution (UHR) Earth observation imagery, yet they face a severe scale mismatch between broad scene cont…

cs.CV2026

Learn to Think: Improving Multimodal Reasoning through Vision-Aware Self-Improvement Training

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Wenjie Xuan +3

Post-training with explicit reasoning traces is common to improve the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, acquiring high-quality reasoning…

cs.CV2026

VTAgent: Agentic Keyframe Anchoring for Evidence-Aware Video TextVQA

Haibin He, Maoyuan Ye, Jing Zhang +2

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) aims to answer questions by reasoning over visual textual content appearing in videos. Despite the strong multimodal vide…

cs.CL2026

Tool Retrieval Bridge: Aligning Vague Instructions with Retriever Preferences via Bridge Model

Kunfeng Chen, Luyao Zhuang, Fei Liao +3

Tool learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for large language models (LLMs) to address real-world challenges. Due to the extensive and irregularly updated number of tools, t…

cs.CL2026

Try, Check and Retry: A Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Boosting Long-context Tool-Calling Performance of LLMs

Kunfeng Chen, Qihuang Zhong, Juhua Liu +2

Tool-calling empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with external environments. However, current methods often struggle to handle massive and noisy candidate tools in lo…

cs.CV2026

ET-SAM: Efficient Point Prompt Prediction in SAM for Unified Scene Text Detection and Layout Analysis

Xike Zhang, Maoyuan Ye, Juhua Liu +1

Previous works based on Segment Anything Model (SAM) have achieved promising performance in unified scene text detection and layout analysis. However, the typical reliance on pixel…

cs.CV2025

SFA: Scan, Focus, and Amplify toward Guidance-aware Answering for Video TextVQA

Haibin He, Qihuang Zhong, Juhua Liu +3

Video text-based visual question answering (Video TextVQA) task aims to answer questions about videos by leveraging the visual text appearing within the videos. This task poses sig…

cs.CV2025

Epistemic-aware Vision-Language Foundation Model for Fetal Ultrasound Interpretation

Xiao He, Huangxuan Zhao, Guojia Wan +8

Recent medical vision-language models have shown promise on tasks such as VQA, report generation, and anomaly detection. However, most are adapted to structured adult imaging and u…

cs.CV2025

Rethink Sparse Signals for Pose-guided Text-to-image Generation

Wenjie Xuan, Jing Zhang, Juhua Liu +2

Recent works favored dense signals (e.g., depth, DensePose), as an alternative to sparse signals (e.g., OpenPose), to provide detailed spatial guidance for pose-guided text-to-imag…

cs.CL2025

Resolving Knowledge Conflicts in Domain-specific Data Selection: A Case Study on Medical Instruction-tuning

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Fei Liao +3

Domain-specific instruction-tuning has become the defacto standard for improving the performance of large language models (LLMs) in specialized applications, e.g., medical question…

cs.CL2025

KaFT: Knowledge-aware Fine-tuning for Boosting LLMs' Domain-specific Question-Answering Performance

Qihuang Zhong, Liang Ding, Xiantao Cai +3

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common approach to improve the domain-specific question-answering (QA) performance of large language models (LLMs). However, recent literature rev…

cs.CV2025

Reasoning-OCR: Can Large Multimodal Models Solve Complex Logical Reasoning Problems from OCR Cues?

Haibin He, Maoyuan Ye, Jing Zhang +4

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have become increasingly versatile, accompanied by impressive Optical Character Recognition (OCR) related capabilities. Existing OCR-related benchmar…

cs.CV2025

GoMatching++: Parameter- and Data-Efficient Arbitrary-Shaped Video Text Spotting and Benchmarking

Haibin He, Jing Zhang, Maoyuan Ye +3

Video text spotting (VTS) extends image text spotting (ITS) by adding text tracking, significantly increasing task complexity. Despite progress in VTS, existing methods still fall…

cs.CV2025

Adapting Segment Anything Model for Power Transmission Corridor Hazard Segmentation

Hang Chen, Maoyuan Ye, Peng Yang +3

Power transmission corridor hazard segmentation (PTCHS) aims to separate transmission equipment and surrounding hazards from complex background, conveying great significance to mai…

cs.CV2025

LogicOCR: Do Your Large Multimodal Models Excel at Logical Reasoning on Text-Rich Images?

Maoyuan Ye, Haibin He, Qihuang Zhong +3

Recent advances in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have revolutionized their reasoning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities. However, their complex logical reasoning…

cs.CL2024

Learning from Imperfect Data: Towards Efficient Knowledge Distillation of Autoregressive Language Models for Text-to-SQL

Qihuang Zhong, Kunfeng Chen, Liang Ding +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in text-to-SQL, which involves translating natural language questions into SQL queries. However, current text-to-SQL L…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Iterative Data Generation with Large Language Models for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

Qihuang Zhong, Haiyun Li, Luyao Zhuang +2

Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) is an important sentiment analysis task, which aims to determine the sentiment polarity towards an aspect in a sentence. Due to the expensive…

cs.CV2024

RFL-CDNet: Towards Accurate Change Detection via Richer Feature Learning

Yuhang Gan, Wenjie Xuan, Hang Chen +2

Change Detection is a crucial but extremely challenging task of remote sensing image analysis, and much progress has been made with the rapid development of deep learning. However,…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Achieving >97% on GSM8K: Deeply Understanding the Problems Makes LLMs Better Solvers for Math Word Problems

Qihuang Zhong, Kang Wang, Ziyang Xu +3

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has enhanced the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) across various reasoning tasks. However, CoT still falls short in dealing with complex…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

When ControlNet Meets Inexplicit Masks: A Case Study of ControlNet on its Contour-following Ability

Wenjie Xuan, Yufei Xu, Shanshan Zhao +4

ControlNet excels at creating content that closely matches precise contours in user-provided masks. However, when these masks contain noise, as a frequent occurrence with non-exper…

cs.DC2024

PICO: Accelerating All k-Core Paradigms on GPU

Chen Zhao, Ting Yu, Zhigao Zheng +4

Core decomposition is a well-established graph mining problem with various applications that involves partitioning the graph into hierarchical subgraphs. Solutions to this problem…