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7 papers

cs.CV2026

The Cartesian Shortcut: Re-evaluate Vision Reasoning in Polar Coordinate Space

Xia Hu, Zhenrui Yue, Brian Potetz +4

As current Multimodal Large Language Models rapidly saturate canonical visual reasoning benchmarks, a key question emerges: do these strong scores genuinely reflect robust visual u…

cs.AI2026

Lightweight LLM Agent Memory with Small Language Models

Jiaquan Zhang, Chaoning Zhang, Shuxu Chen +9

Although LLM agents can leverage tools for complex tasks, they still need memory to maintain cross-turn consistency and accumulate reusable information in long-horizon interactions…

cs.IR2026

Pailitao-VL: Unified Embedding and Reranker for Real-Time Multi-Modal Industrial Search

Lei Chen, Chen Ju, Xu Chen +13

In this work, we presented Pailitao-VL, a comprehensive multi-modal retrieval system engineered for high-precision, real-time industrial search. We here address three critical chal…

cs.AI2026

Understanding Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models via Topological Data Analysis

Chenghao Li, Chaoning Zhang, Yi Lu +10

With the development of large language models (LLMs), particularly with the introduction of the long reasoning chain technique, the reasoning ability of LLMs in complex problem-sol…

cs.LG2025

Explore More, Learn Better: Parallel MLLM Embeddings under Mutual Information Minimization

Zhicheng Wang, Chen Ju, Xu Chen +5

Embedding models are a cornerstone of modern AI. Driven by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), they have made great progress in architecture and data curation, while the holi…

cs.CV2025

Wave-Particle (Continuous-Discrete) Dualistic Visual Tokenization for Unified Understanding and Generation

Yizhu Chen, Chen Ju, Zhicheng Wang +5

The unification of understanding and generation within a single multi-modal large model (MLLM) remains one significant challenge, largely due to the dichotomy between continuous an…