5 papers
When 2D Tasks Meet 1D Serialization: On Serialization Friction in Structured Tasks
Chung-Hsiang Lo, Lu Li, Diji Yang +4
In the LLM era, many symbolic and structured problems are presented to models through 1D text serialization. Yet some such problems are natively two-dimensional: their relevant rel…
Grid2Matrix: Revealing Digital Agnosia in Vision-Language Models
Yunkai Zhang, Linda Li, Yingxin Cui +5
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel on many multimodal reasoning benchmarks, but these evaluations often do not require an exhaustive readout of the image and can therefore obscure…
TARo: Token-level Adaptive Routing for LLM Test-time Alignment
Arushi Rai, Qiang Zhang, Hanqing Zeng +5
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities but typically require expensive post-training to reach high performance. Recent test-time alignment methods offer…
Don't Waste It: Guiding Generative Recommenders with Structured Human Priors via Multi-Head Decoding
Yunkai Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Feng Lin +7
Optimizing recommender systems for objectives beyond accuracy, such as diversity, novelty, and personalization, is crucial for long-term user satisfaction. To this end, industrial…
Insight Miner: A Time Series Analysis Dataset for Cross-Domain Alignment with Natural Language
Yunkai Zhang, Yawen Zhang, Ming Zheng +10
Time-series data is critical across many scientific and industrial domains, including environmental analysis, agriculture, transportation, and finance. However, mining insights fro…