3 papers
cs.CL2026
Reasoning Beyond Literal: Cross-style Multimodal Reasoning for Figurative Language Understanding
Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Hahnemann Ortiz, James Mooney +1
Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning abilities in literal multimodal tasks such as visual mathematics and science question answering. However, figurativ…
cs.LG2025
Accelerating LLM Reasoning via Early Rejection with Partial Reward Modeling
Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Azal Ahmad Khan, Xinran Wang +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly relied upon for solving complex reasoning tasks in domains such as mathematics, logic, and multi-step question answering. A growing li…
cs.LG2025
Improving Out-of-distribution Human Activity Recognition via IMU-Video Cross-modal Representation Learning
Seyyed Saeid Cheshmi, Buyao Lyu, Thomas Lisko +3
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on wearable inertial sensors plays a critical role in remote health monitoring. In patients with movement disorders, the ability to detect ab…