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20242026
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5 papers

cs.CL2026

How Do Large Language Models Learn Concepts During Continual Pre-Training?

Barry Menglong Yao, Sha Li, Yunzhi Yao +4

Human beings primarily understand the world through concepts (e.g., dog), abstract mental representations that structure perception, reasoning, and learning. However, how large lan…

cs.CL2025

AMELI: Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Fine-Grained Attributes

Barry Menglong Yao, Sijia Wang, Yu Chen +5

We propose attribute-aware multimodal entity linking, where the input consists of a mention described with a text paragraph and images, and the goal is to predict the corresponding…

cs.CL2025

Scientific Hypothesis Generation and Validation: Methods, Datasets, and Future Directions

Adithya Kulkarni, Fatimah Alotaibi, Xinyue Zeng +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming scientific hypothesis generation and validation by enabling information synthesis, latent relationship discovery, and reasoning augmen…

cs.LG2025

A Survey on Mechanistic Interpretability for Multi-Modal Foundation Models

Zihao Lin, Samyadeep Basu, Mohammad Beigi +18

The rise of foundation models has transformed machine learning research, prompting efforts to uncover their inner workings and develop more efficient and reliable applications for…

cs.CL2024

Error-driven Data-efficient Large Multimodal Model Tuning

Barry Menglong Yao, Qifan Wang, Lifu Huang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across numerous academic benchmarks. However, fine-tuning still remains essential to achieve satisfactory pe…