collaborators

10 papers

cs.SD2026

Not that Groove: Zero-Shot Symbolic Music Editing

Li Zhang

While recent advancements in AI music generation have predominantly focused on direct audio synthesis, these systems suffer from inherent rigidity, limiting their utility for profe…

cs.AI2026

Iterative Formalization and Planning in Partially Observable Environments

Liancheng Gong, Wang Zhu, Jesse Thomason +1

Using LLMs not to predict plans but to formalize an environment into the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) has been shown to improve performance and control. While most ex…

cs.CL2026

Fine-Grained Activation Steering: Steering Less, Achieving More

Zijian Feng, Tianjiao Li, Zixiao Zhu +7

Activation steering has emerged as a cost-effective paradigm for modifying large language model (LLM) behaviors. Existing methods typically intervene at the block level, steering t…

cs.AI2026

Scaling Medical Reasoning Verification via Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning

Hang Zhang, Ruheng Wang, Yuelyu Ji +7

Large language models have achieved strong performance on medical reasoning benchmarks, yet their deployment in clinical settings demands rigorous verification to ensure factual ac…

cs.CV2025

Where on Earth? A Vision-Language Benchmark for Probing Model Geolocation Skills Across Scales

Zhaofang Qian, Hardy Chen, Zeyu Wang +9

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet their capacity for image-grounded geolocation in open-world conditions, a task that is challenging and of demand in real li…

cs.CL2025

Prototype-Based Dynamic Steering for Large Language Models

Ceyhun Efe Kayan, Li Zhang

Despite impressive breadth, LLMs still rely on explicit reasoning instructions or static, one-fits-all steering methods, leaving a gap for adaptive, instruction-free reasoning ampl…