activity
20242026
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8 papers

cs.CL2026

Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Application

Jiachun Li, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men +12

Environments serve as interactive systems for large language model (LLM) based agents across diverse scenarios and play a crucial role in driving the continual evolution of model c…

cs.CL2026

MMR-Life: Piecing Together Real-life Scenes for Multimodal Multi-image Reasoning

Jiachun Li, Shaoping Huang, Zhuoran Jin +5

Recent progress in the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has empowered them to address more complex tasks such as scientific analysis and mathemati…

cs.CL2026

Fixing the Broken Compass: Diagnosing and Improving Inference-Time Reward Modeling

Jiachun Li, Pengfei Cao, Zhuoran Jin +6

Inference-time scaling techniques have shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While recent research has primarily focused on trainin…

cs.CL2025

Omni-Reward: Towards Generalist Omni-Modal Reward Modeling with Free-Form Preferences

Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan, Kejian Zhu +5

Reward models (RMs) play a critical role in aligning AI behaviors with human preferences, yet they face two fundamental challenges: (1) Modality Imbalance, where most RMs are mainl…

cs.CV2025

MMR-V: What's Left Unsaid? A Benchmark for Multimodal Deep Reasoning in Videos

Kejian Zhu, Zhuoran Jin, Hongbang Yuan +6

The sequential structure of videos poses a challenge to the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to locate multi-frame evidence and conduct multimodal reasoning. How…

cs.CL2025

Towards Better Chain-of-Thought: A Reflection on Effectiveness and Faithfulness

Jiachun Li, Pengfei Cao, Yubo Chen +5

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting demonstrates varying performance under different reasoning tasks. Previous work attempts to evaluate it but falls short in providing an in-depth an…