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cs.CV2026

Why MLLMs Struggle to Count: Overcoming Individuation and Aggregation Bottlenecks with ConvStack

Liwei Che, Yihao Quan, Sen Fang +4

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) consistently struggle with fine-grained visual counting, yet the underlying causes remain poorly understood. In this work, we present a mec…

cs.AI2026

Agent MechSuits: Mechanistic Subspace Safety Steering for Multi-Turn CLI Agents

Weidi Luo, Qiming Zhang, Yihao Quan +5

Command-Line Interface (CLI) agents based on large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable autonomous capabilities, but they also introduce significant safety and misuse risk…

cs.CV2026

MemEye: A Visual-Centric Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Agent Memory

Minghao Guo, Qingyue Jiao, Zeru Shi +14

Long-term agent memory is increasingly multimodal, yet existing evaluations rarely test whether agents preserve the visual evidence needed for later reasoning. In prior work, many…

cs.CL2026

Where Fake Citations Are Made: Tracing Field-Level Hallucination to Specific Neurons in LLMs

Yuefei Chen, Yihao Quan, Xiaodong Lin +1

LLMs frequently generate fictitious yet convincing citations, often expressing high confidence even when the underlying reference is wrong. We study this failure across 9 models an…

cs.CL2026

ART: Attention Replacement Technique to Improve Factuality in LLMs

Ziqin Luo, Yihao Quan, Xiaofeng Zhang +2

Hallucination in large language models (LLMs) continues to be a significant issue, particularly in tasks like question answering, where models often generate plausible yet incorrec…

cs.CV2026

Reinforcing Consistency in Video MLLMs with Structured Rewards

Yihao Quan, Zeru Shi, Jinman Zhao +1

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, seemingly plausible outputs often suffer from poor visual and temporal g…

cs.CV2026

Counting Circuits: Mechanistic Interpretability of Visual Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models

Liwei Che, Zhiyu Xue, Yihao Quan +7

Counting serves as a simple but powerful test of a Large Vision-Language Model's (LVLM's) reasoning; it forces the model to identify each individual object and then add them all up…

cs.CV2026

Improving Visual Reasoning with Iterative Evidence Refinement

Zeru Shi, Kai Mei, Yihao Quan +2

Vision language models (VLMs) are increasingly capable of reasoning over images, but robust visual reasoning often requires re-grounding intermediate steps in the underlying visual…

cs.CL2025

Read the Scene, Not the Script: Outcome-Aware Safety for LLMs

Rui Wu, Yihao Quan, Zeru Shi +3

Safety-aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) still show two dominant failure modes: they are easily jailbroken, or they over-refuse harmless inputs that contain sensitive surface si…

cs.CV2024

Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Models Complex Reason via Similarity Computation

Xiaofeng Zhang, Fanshuo Zeng, Yihao Quan +2

Multimodal large language models have experienced rapid growth, and numerous different models have emerged. The interpretability of LVLMs remains an under-explored area. Especially…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Seeing Clearly by Layer Two: Enhancing Attention Heads to Alleviate Hallucination in LVLMs

Xiaofeng Zhang, Yihao Quan, Chaochen Gu +6

The hallucination problem in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remains a common issue. Although image tokens occupy a majority of the input sequence of MLLMs, there is limit…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

From Redundancy to Relevance: Information Flow in LVLMs Across Reasoning Tasks

Xiaofeng Zhang, Yihao Quan, Chen Shen +7

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve great performance on visual-language reasoning tasks, however, the black-box nature of LVLMs hinders in-depth research on the reasoning…