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cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
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…
cs.CL2026
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…