5 papers
Mechanistic Diagnostics of Spatial Lexical Bias in Multimodal Large Language Model Spatial Reasoning
Chuang Ma, Qianying Liu, Tomoyuki Obuchi +6
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain unreliable on spatial multiple-choice questions, and their failures are often attributed to poorly attended visual information. In t…
Path-Lock Expert: Separating Reasoning Mode in Hybrid Thinking via Architecture-Level Separation
Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Chuang Ma +7
Hybrid-thinking language models expose explicit /think and /no_think modes, but current designs do not separate them cleanly. Even in /no_think mode, models often emit long and sel…
Affective Flow Language Model for Emotional Support Conversation
Chenghui Zou, Ning Wang, Tiesunlong Shen +5
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied to emotional support conversation (ESC). However, complex multi-turn support remains challenging.This is because existing alig…
AgentCE-Bench: Agent Configurable Evaluation with Scalable Horizons and Controllable Difficulty under Lightweight Environments
Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li +7
Existing Agent benchmarks suffer from two critical limitations: high environment interaction overhead (up to 41\% of total evaluation time) and imbalanced task horizon and difficul…
When Domains Interact: Asymmetric and Order-Sensitive Cross-Domain Effects in Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning
Wang Yang, Shouren Wang, Chaoda Song +6
Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a key technique for improving reasoning abilities in large language models, yet its behavior under different domain sequencing…