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20242026
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8 papers

cs.CV2026

Diagnosing Visual Ignorance in Vision-Language Models

Runyu Zhou, Qi Zhang, Qixun Wang +1

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) frequently rely on language priors, producing confident answers that are weakly grounded in visual evidence. While this behavior is widely observed, i…

cs.CV2026

SSL4RL: Revisiting Self-supervised Learning as Intrinsic Reward for Visual-Language Reasoning

Xiaojun Guo, Runyu Zhou, Yifei Wang +8

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable abilities by integrating large language models with visual inputs. However, they often fail to utilize visual evidence adequatel…

cs.LG2026

On the Limits of Sparse Autoencoders: A Theoretical Framework and Reweighted Remedy

Jingyi Cui, Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang +1

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for interpreting the features learned by large language models (LLMs). By reconstructing features with sparsely…

cs.CV2026

UniG2U-Bench: Do Unified Models Advance Multimodal Understanding?

Zimo Wen, Boxiu Li, Wanbo Zhang +11

Unified multimodal models have recently demonstrated strong generative capabilities, yet whether and when generation improves understanding remains unclear. Existing benchmarks lac…

cs.AI2026

SAE as a Crystal Ball: Interpretable Features Predict Cross-domain Transferability of LLMs without Training

Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Xiaohan Wang +4

In recent years, pre-trained large language models have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks. Besides the pivotal role of self-supervised pre-training, their effectiven…

cs.LG2025

An Augmentation Overlap Theory of Contrastive Learning

Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang

Recently, self-supervised contrastive learning has achieved great success on various tasks. However, its underlying working mechanism is yet unclear. In this paper, we first provid…