11 papers
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…
DEEPMED: Building a Medical DeepResearch Agent via Multi-hop Med-Search Data and Turn-Controlled Agentic Training & Inference
Zihan Wang, Hao Wang, Shi Feng +6
Medical reasoning models remain constrained by parametric knowledge and are thus susceptible to forgetting and hallucinations. DeepResearch (DR) models ground outputs in verifiable…
SAD: A Large-Scale Strategic Argumentative Dialogue Dataset
Yongkang Liu, Jiayang Yu, Mingyang Wang +6
Argumentation generation has attracted substantial research interest due to its central role in human reasoning and decision-making. However, most existing argumentative corpora fo…
Affective Computing in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey from the NLP Perspective
Yiqun Zhang, Xiaocui Yang, Xingle Xu +8
Affective Computing (AC) integrates computer science, psychology, and cognitive science to enable machines to recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions across domains such…
The Avengers: A Simple Recipe for Uniting Smaller Language Models to Challenge Proprietary Giants
Yiqun Zhang, Hao Li, Chenxu Wang +11
Proprietary giants are increasingly dominating the race for ever-larger language models. Can open-source, smaller models remain competitive across a broad range of tasks? In this p…
Why Do More Experts Fail? A Theoretical Analysis of Model Merging
Zijing Wang, Xingle Xu, Yongkang Liu +6
Model merging dramatically reduces storage and computational resources by combining multiple expert models into a single multi-task model. Although recent model merging methods hav…