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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Overcoming Multi-step Complexity in Multimodal Theory-of-Mind Reasoning: A Scalable Bayesian Planner

Chunhui Zhang, Zhongyu Ouyang, Kwonjoon Lee +4

Theory-of-Mind (ToM) enables humans to infer mental states-such as beliefs, desires, and intentions-forming the foundation of social cognition. However, existing computational ToM…

cs.IR2026

What Makes LLMs Effective Sequential Recommenders? A Study on Preference Intensity and Temporal Context

Zhongyu Ouyang, Qianlong Wen, Chunhui Zhang +2

What enables large language models (LLMs) to effectively model user preferences in sequential recommendation? Our investigation reveals that existing preference-alignment approache…

cs.CV2026

Addressing Overthinking in Large Vision-Language Models via Gated Perception-Reasoning Optimization

Xingjian Diao, Zheyuan Liu, Chunhui Zhang +6

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have exhibited strong reasoning capabilities through chain-of-thought mechanisms that generate step-by-step rationales. However, such slow-thin…

cs.SD2026

Music Audio-Visual Question Answering Requires Specialized Multimodal Designs

Wenhao You, Xingjian Diao, Wenjun Huang +9

While recent Multimodal Large Language Models exhibit impressive capabilities for general multimodal tasks, specialized domains like music necessitate tailored approaches. Music Au…

cs.CL2025

SoundMind: RL-Incentivized Logic Reasoning for Audio-Language Models

Xingjian Diao, Chunhui Zhang, Keyi Kong +6

While large language models have demonstrated impressive reasoning abilities, their extension to the audio modality, particularly within large audio-language models (LALMs), remain…

cs.SD2025

Learning Sparsity for Effective and Efficient Music Performance Question Answering

Xingjian Diao, Tianzhen Yang, Chunhui Zhang +3

Music performances, characterized by dense and continuous audio as well as seamless audio-visual integration, present unique challenges for multimodal scene understanding and reaso…