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6 papers

cs.CV2026

VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction

Jiarong Liang, Max Ku, Ka-Hei Hui +2

Evaluating whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) genuinely reason about physical dynamics remains challenging. Most existing benchmarks rely on recognition-style protoco…

cs.GR2026

ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks

Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, Max Ku, Nima Jamali +23

Advances in diffusion, autoregressive, and hybrid models have enabled high-quality image synthesis for tasks such as text-to-image, editing, and reference-guided composition. Yet,…

cs.CV2026

EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing

Keming Wu, Sicong Jiang, Max Ku +3

Recently, we have witnessed great progress in image editing with natural language instructions. Several closed-source models like GPT-Image-1, Seedream, and Google-Nano-Banana have…

cs.CL2025

FinanceReasoning: Benchmarking Financial Numerical Reasoning More Credible, Comprehensive and Challenging

Zichen Tang, Haihong E, Ziyan Ma +10

We introduce FinanceReasoning, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large reasoning models (LRMs) in financial numerical reasoning problems. Compare…

q-bio.QM2025

DisProtEdit: Exploring Disentangled Representations for Multi-Attribute Protein Editing

Max Ku, Sun Sun, Hongyu Guo +1

We introduce DisProtEdit, a controllable protein editing framework that leverages dual-channel natural language supervision to learn disentangled representations of structural and…

cs.AI2025

TheoremExplainAgent: Towards Video-based Multimodal Explanations for LLM Theorem Understanding

Max Ku, Thomas Chong, Jonathan Leung +3

Understanding domain-specific theorems often requires more than just text-based reasoning; effective communication through structured visual explanations is crucial for deeper comp…