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Fangrui Lv

12 accepted papers

2026

AStar: Boosting Multimodal Reasoning with Automated Structured Thinking

AAAI 2026technical

Multimodal large language models excel across diverse domains but struggle with complex visual reasoning tasks. To enhance their reasoning capabilities, current approaches typically rely on explicit search or post-training techniques. However, search-based methods suffer from computational inefficie

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2026

Attend to the Active: Structure-Aware Dynamic Attention in LLMs for Compositional Instruction Following

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited strong instruction-following capabilities; however, they often struggle with compositional instructions involving multiple interleaved yet logically independent sub-tasks. These sub-tasks are typically organized in mutually exclusive structures, such as br…

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2026

Beyond Tokens: Dynamic Latent Reasoning via Semantic Residual Refinement

AAAI 2026technical

Chain-of-Thought prompting has remarkably advanced LLM reasoning by generating explicit step-by-step tokens, yet its discrete nature inherently limits expressiveness and efficiency, struggling with abstract, ambiguous, or semantically divergent cognition beyond linguistic tokens. Latent reasoning of

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2026

Deliberate Evolution for Sample-Efficient Symbolic Regression with LLM

ICML 2026poster

Symbolic regression (SR) stands as a cornerstone of scientific discovery, deriving mathematical expressions from observing data. Recent advances incorporate large language models (LLMs) into evolutionary optimization, typically relying on iterative refinement driven by scalar feedback (e.g., mean sq…

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2026

MetaphorVU: Towards Metaphorical Video Understanding

ICML 2026spotlight

Metaphorical videos are prevalent across various real-world scenarios to convey complex ideas, and understanding them typically requires high-order cognitive capabilities. The lack of systematic studies on metaphorical video understanding not only constrains the real-world applicability of MLLMs but…

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2025

Physics Reasoner: Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning for Solving Physics Problems with Large Language Models

COLING 2025main

Physics problems constitute a significant aspect of reasoning, necessitating complicated reasoning ability and abundant physics knowledge. However, existing large language models (LLMs) frequently fail due to a lack of knowledge or incorrect knowledge application. To mitigate these issues, we propos…

2024

Subjective Topic meets LLMs: Unleashing Comprehensive, Reflective and Creative Thinking through the Negation of Negation

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit powerful reasoning capacity, as evidenced by prior studies focusing on objective topics that with unique standard answers such as arithmetic and commonsense reasoning. However, the reasoning to definite answers emphasizes more on logical thinking, and falls short…

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2023

Improving Generalization With Domain Convex Game

CVPR 2023poster

Domain generalization (DG) tends to alleviate the poor generalization capability of deep neural networks by learning model with multiple source domains. A classical solution to DG is domain augmentation, the common belief of which is that diversifying source domains will be conducive to the out-of-d…

2022

Causality Inspired Representation Learning for Domain Generalization

CVPR 2022oral

Domain generalization (DG) is essentially an out-of-distribution problem, aiming to generalize the knowledge learned from multiple source domains to an unseen target domain. The mainstream is to leverage statistical models to model the dependence between data and labels, intending to learn represent…

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2021

Bi-Classifier Determinacy Maximization for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

AAAI 2021technical

Unsupervised domain adaptation challenges the problem of transferring knowledge from a well-labelled source domain to an unlabelled target domain. Recently, adversarial learning with bi-classifier has been proven effective in pushing cross-domain distributions close. Prior approaches typically lever…

2021

Semantic Concentration for Domain Adaptation

ICCV 2021poster

Domain adaptation (DA) paves the way for label annotation and dataset bias issues by the knowledge transfer from a label-rich source domain to a related but unlabeled target domain. A mainstream of DA methods is to align the feature distributions of the two domains. However, the majority of them foc…

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