4 papers
Caring Without Feeling: Affective Dynamics as the Control Layer of Human-AI Agent Collaboration
Junjie Xu, Xingjiao Wu, Zihao Zhang +6
AI agents that plan, retain memory across sessions, invoke external tools and act with partial autonomy are transforming human--AI collaboration. Research on affective computing, s…
Large Language Models have Chain-of-Affect
Junjie Xu, Xingjiao Wu, Luwei Xiao +11
As large language models (LLMs) move into persistent, user-facing roles, their behavior must be understood not as isolated responses but as a trajectory unfolding over sustained in…
APEX: Learning Adaptive Priorities for Multi-Objective Alignment in Vision-Language Generation
Dongliang Chen, Xinlin Zhuang, Junjie Xu +8
Multi-objective alignment for text-to-image generation is commonly implemented via static linear scalarization, but fixed weights often fail under heterogeneous rewards, leading to…
Aesthetic Matters in Music Perception for Image Stylization: A Emotion-driven Music-to-Visual Manipulation
Junjie Xu, Xingjiao Wu, Tanren Yao +4
Emotional information is essential for enhancing human-computer interaction and deepening image understanding. However, while deep learning has advanced image recognition, the intu…