2 papers
cs.AI2026
CARAT: Do Materials LLMs Reason or Recite?
Jiajun Wu, Jian Yang, Zixiang Ni +2
When a materials LLM answers a question about crystal structure, does it reason from the structure or copy an answer already printed in its input? Accuracy cannot tell: a structura…
cs.HC2026
Read Between the Stickers: Sentiment-Prior Reasoning with Learnable Verbalized Rules for Multimodal Chat Analysis
Zixiang Ni, Yifei Xu, Haowen Yang +8
Multimodal chat analysis of social media stickers (MCAS) benefits from jointly modeling text and sticker semantics, yet it is inherently challenged by the interference between sent…