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9 papers

cs.CV2026

Watching, Reasoning, and Searching: A Video Deep Research Benchmark on Open Web for Agentic Video Reasoning

Chengwen Liu, Xiaomin Yu, Zhuoyue Chang +15

In real-world video question answering scenarios, videos often provide only localized visual cues, while verifiable answers are distributed across the open web; models therefore ne…

cs.CL2026

MuVaC: A Variational Causal Framework for Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding in Dialogues

Diandian Guo, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao +5

The prevalence of sarcasm in multimodal dialogues on the social platforms presents a crucial yet challenging task for understanding the true intent behind online content. Comprehen…

cs.LG2026

Generalization of RLVR Using Causal Reasoning as a Testbed

Brian Lu, Hongyu Zhao, Shuo Sun +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for post-training large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks. Yet, the condit…

cs.AI2026

Dialogue Model Optimization via Agent Game and Adaptive Tree-based GRPO

Kun Peng, Conghui Tan, Yu Liu +7

Open-ended dialogue agents aim to deliver engaging, personalized interactions by adapting to users' traits, but existing methods face critical limitations: over-reliance on pre-col…

cs.CL2026

ReBeCA: Unveiling Interpretable Behavior Hierarchy behind the Iterative Self-Reflection of Language Models with Causal Analysis

Tianqiang Yan, Sihan Shang, Yuheng Li +6

While self-reflection can enhance language model reliability, its underlying mechanisms remain opaque, with existing analyses often yielding correlation-based insights that fail to…

cs.AI2026

Latent Chain-of-Thought as Planning: Decoupling Reasoning from Verbalization

Jiecong Wang, Hao Peng, Chunyang Liu

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle complex problems, but remains constrained by the computational cost and reasoning path collapse when grounded…