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6 papers

cs.CV2026

VisAnalog: A Diagnostic Suite for Visual Concept Transfer on Natural Images

Zhaonan Li, Kyle R. Chickering, Bangzheng Li +13

A useful test of visual concept learning is not just whether a model can recognize a concept in a single image, but whether it can preserve and manipulate concept-level properties…

cs.CV2025

Unbiased Visual Reasoning with Controlled Visual Inputs

Zhaonan Li, Shijie Lu, Fei Wang +11

End-to-end Vision-language Models (VLMs) often answer visual questions by exploiting spurious correlations instead of causal visual evidence, and can become more shortcut-prone whe…

cs.CL2025

QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA

Jacob Dineen, Aswin RRV, Qin Liu +8

Alignment of large language models (LLMs) with principles like helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness typically relies on scalar rewards that obscure which objectives drive the tra…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Medical LLMs by Levels of Autonomy: A Survey Moving from Benchmarks to Applications

Xiao Ye, Jacob Dineen, Zhaonan Li +11

Medical Large language models achieve strong scores on standard benchmarks; however, the transfer of those results to safe and reliable performance in clinical workflows remains a…

cs.CL2025

CC-LEARN: Cohort-based Consistency Learning

Xiao Ye, Shaswat Shrivastava, Zhaonan Li +6

Large language models excel at many tasks but still struggle with consistent, robust reasoning. We introduce Cohort-based Consistency Learning (CC-Learn), a reinforcement learning…

cs.CL2025

ToW: Thoughts of Words Improve Reasoning in Large Language Models

Zhikun Xu, Ming Shen, Jacob Dineen +6

We introduce thoughts of words (ToW), a novel training-time data-augmentation method for next-word prediction. ToW views next-word prediction as a core reasoning task and injects f…