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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

Chengshuai Zhao, Zhen Tan, Pingchuan Ma +5

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has been shown to be effective in eliciting structured reasoning (i.e., CoT reasoning) from large language models (LLMs). Regardless of its popular…

cs.CL2026

VowelPrompt: Hearing Speech Emotions from Text via Vowel-level Prosodic Augmentation

Yancheng Wang, Osama Hanna, Ruiming Xie +11

Emotion recognition in speech presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring comprehension of both linguistic content and vocal expressivity, particularly prosodic features suc…

cs.CV2025

Learning Informative Attention Weights for Person Re-Identification

Yancheng Wang, Nebojsa Jojic, Yingzhen Yang

Attention mechanisms have been widely used in deep learning, and recent efforts have been devoted to incorporating attention modules into deep neural networks (DNNs) for person Re-…

cs.CV2025

Efficient Visual Transformer by Learnable Token Merging

Yancheng Wang, Yingzhen Yang

Self-attention and transformers have been widely used in deep learning. Recent efforts have been devoted to incorporating transformer blocks into different neural architectures, in…

cs.CV2025

Compact Vision Transformer by Reduction of Kernel Complexity

Yancheng Wang, Yingzhen Yang

Self-attention and transformer architectures have become foundational components in modern deep learning. Recent efforts have integrated transformer blocks into compact neural arch…

cs.LG2025

Graph Contrastive Learning with Low-Rank Regularization and Low-Rank Attention for Noisy Node Classification

Yancheng Wang, Yingzhen Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in learning node representations and have shown strong performance in tasks such as node classification. However, rece…