3 papers
cs.CL2026
Read-Best Is Not Steer-Best: A Probing--Steering Layer Dissociation in Omni-Modal Large Language Models
Yibo Wang, Jisheng Dang, Bimei Wang +7
Omni-modal large language models integrate text, audio, and image signals into a shared residual stream, where concepts such as emotion can be linearly decoded and causally modifie…
cs.AI2026
AffectOmni: RL-Verifiable People-Centric Grounded Affective Reasoning for Social and Art-Related Scenes
Yibo Wang, Rui Yang, Jisheng Dang +7
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance on VQA and scene understanding, yet affective reasoning remains vulnerable to shortcut behavior. Models may pred…
cs.AI2026
Verify, Repair, Repeat, or Stop? Robust Stopping for Noisy Verify-Repair Loops in LLM Agents
Yitao Wu, Si Shen, Rui Yang +2
Verify-repair loops are a standard means for large language model (LLM) agents to correct faulty plans in code generation, mathematical reasoning, and tool use. When both the verif…