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Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding
Ming Wang, Yuqing Zhang, Tingna Xie +5
Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explicit targets and reward signals…
Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events
Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4
Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that r…
Beyond Feeling Better: Capability-Sustaining Emotional Dialogue as a Longitudinal Research Paradigm
Ming Wang, Jiaqi Wu Young, Wenfang Wu +2
The paper introduces capability‑sustaining emotional dialogue (CSED) as a longitudinal research paradigm that aims to support users' emotional regulation, coping, and autonomy over…
Beyond Text Following: Repairable Arbitration Reversals in Audio-Language Models
Yichen Gao, Yiqun Zhang, Zijing Wang +7
Audio-language models (ALMs) often follow text that conflicts with audio, even when the audio evidence is clear. This raises a basic question: is the audio-supported answer unavail…
Coherence Maximization Improves Pluralistic Alignment
Taslim Mahbub, Yiding Pei, Shi Feng
Aligning AI systems with diverse human values requires value specifications grounded in concrete examples, but generating such examples without extensive human supervision remains…
"I've Seen How This Goes": Characterizing Diversity via Progressive Conditional Surprise
Matthew Khoriaty, David Williams-King, Shi Feng
Measuring the diversity of creative outputs is central to evaluating post-training mode collapse, comparing decoding strategies, and quantifying creative behavior in both AI and hu…