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Kaifu Zhang

26 accepted papers

2026

A State-Transition Framework for Efficient LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

While Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning significantly improves Large Language Models (LLMs) performance on complex reasoning tasks, the substantial computational and memory costs of generating long CoT sequences limit their efficiency and practicality. Existing studies usually enhance the reason…

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2026

Cross-modal Identity Mapping: Minimizing Information Loss in Modality Conversion via Reinforcement Learning

CVPR 2026

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) often omit or misrepresent critical visual content in generated image captions. Minimizing such information loss will force LVLMs to focus on image details to generate precise descriptions. However, measuring information loss during modality conversion is inheren

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2026

Dissecting Post-Training: Uncovering the Complementary Roles of SFT and RL for Document Parsing

ICML 2026poster

Document parsing, the task of extracting diverse content from PDFs while preserving their structural integrity, has been significantly advanced by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). These models have achieved remarkable success, largely driven by extensive post-training on massive datasets. T…

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2026

Finding the Translation Switch: Discovering and Exploiting the Task-Initiation Features in LLMs

AAAI 2026technical

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently exhibit strong translation abilities, even without task-specific fine-tuning. However, the internal mechanisms governing this innate capability remain largely opaque. To demystify this process, we leverage Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) and introduce a novel frame

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2026

Getting Your LLMs Ready for Reinforcement Learning with Lightweight SFT

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), yet its effectiveness varies significantly across base models. While incorporating a pre-RL supervised fine-tuning (SFT) phase can enhance RL training, key questions remain: how long should…

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2026

ORION: Decoupling and Alignment for Unified Autoregressive Understanding and Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Unified multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold great promise for seamlessly integrating understanding and generation. However, monolithic autoregressive architectures, despite their elegance and conversational fluency, suffer from a fundamental semantic–structural conflict: optimizing for low…

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2026

Omni-View: Unlocking How Generation Facilitates Understanding in Unified 3D Model based on Multiview images

ICLR 2026poster

This paper presents Omni-View, which extends the unified multimodal understanding and generation to 3D scenes based on multiview images, exploring the principle that ``generation facilitates understanding". Consisting of understanding model, texture module, and geometry module, Omni-View jointly mod…

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2026

OvisOCR: End-to-End Document Parsing via Aligning Specialized Perception with General Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

This paper presents OvisOCR, a lightweight and strictly end-to-end Multimodal Language Model (MLLM) tailored for document parsing. Unlike current methods that rely on complex "Crop-OCR-Merge" cascades to handle high-resolution inputs, OvisOCR directly maps full-page visual signals to structured Mark…

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2026

iTryOn: Mastering Interactive Video Virtual Try-On with Spatial-Semantic Guidance

ICML 2026poster

Video Virtual Try-On (VVT) aims to seamlessly replace a garment on a person in a video with a new one. While existing methods have made significant strides in maintaining temporal consistency, they are predominantly confined to non-interactive scenarios where models merely showcase garments. This li…

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2025

A Unified Agentic Framework for Evaluating Conditional Image Generation

ACL 2025long

Conditional image generation has gained significant attention for its ability to personalize content. However, the field faces challenges in developing task-agnostic, reliable, and explainable evaluation metrics. This paper introduces CIGEval, a unified agentic framework for comprehensive evaluation…

2025

Alleviating Hallucinations in Large Language Models through Multi-Model Contrastive Decoding and Dynamic Hallucination Detection

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite their outstanding performance in numerous applications, large language models (LLMs) remain prone to hallucinations, generating content inconsistent with their pretraining corpora. Currently, almost all contrastive decoding approaches alleviate hallucinations by introducing a model susceptib…

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2025

CHATS: Combining Human-Aligned Optimization and Test-Time Sampling for Text-to-Image Generation

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for text-to-image generation. Key components such as the human preference alignment and classifier-free guidance play a crucial role in ensuring generation quality. However, their independent application in current text-to-image models continues t…

2025

Chinese SafetyQA: A Safety Short-form Factuality Benchmark for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), significant safety concerns have emerged. Fundamentally, the safety of large language models is closely linked to the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and clarity of their understanding of safety knowledge, particularly in domains such as law,…

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2025

LayAlign: Enhancing Multilingual Reasoning in Large Language Models via Layer-Wise Adaptive Fusion and Alignment Strategy

NAACL 2025findings

Despite being pretrained on multilingual corpora, large language models (LLMs) exhibit suboptimal performance on low-resource languages. Recent approaches have leveraged multilingual encoders alongside LLMs by introducing trainable parameters connecting the two models. However, these methods typical…

2025

MDP3: A Training-free Approach for List-wise Frame Selection in Video-LLMs

ICCV 2025poster

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have made significant progress in understanding videos. However, processing multiple frames leads to lengthy visual token sequences, presenting challenges such as the limited context length cannot accommodate the entire video, and the inclusion of irrelevant…

2025

Marco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language

ACL 2025long

Instruction-following capability has become a major ability to be evaluated for Large Language Models. However, existing datasets, such as IFEval, are either predominantly monolingual and centered on English or simply machine translated to other languages, limiting their applicability in multilingua…

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2025

Marco-o1 v2: Towards Widening The Distillation Bottleneck for Reasoning Models

ACL 2025long

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) such as OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities by scaling test-time compute and generating long Chain-of-Thought (CoT). Distillation post-training on LRMs-generated data is a straightforward yet effective method to enhance the reasoning a…

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2025

Multimodal Tabular Reasoning with Privileged Structured Information

NeurIPS 2025poster

Tabular reasoning requires complex, multi-step information extraction and logical inference, such as aggregation, comparison, or calculation over tabular data. While recent advances have leveraged large language models (LLMs) for reasoning over structured text tables, such high-quality textual repre…

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2025

Parrot: Multilingual Visual Instruction Tuning

ICML 2025poster

The rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4, marks a significant step toward artificial general intelligence. Existing methods typically align vision encoders with LLMs via supervised fine-tuning (SFT), but this often deteriorates their ability to handle multiple…

2025

SPACE: Noise Contrastive Estimation Stabilizes Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Self-play fine-tuning has demonstrated promising abilities in adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks with limited real-world data. The basic principle is to iteratively refine the model with real samples and synthetic ones generated from itself. However, the existing methods prima…

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2025

TeEFusion: Blending Text Embeddings to Distill Classifier-Free Guidance

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in text-to-image synthesis largely benefit from sophisticated sampling strategies and classifier-free guidance (CFG) to ensure high-quality generation. However, CFG's reliance on two forward passes, especially when combined with intricate sampling algorithms, results in prohibitively…

2025

Towards Visualization-of-Thought Jailbreak Attack against Large Visual Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

As Visual Language Models (VLMs) continue to evolve, they have demonstrated increasingly sophisticated logical reasoning capabilities and multimodal thought generation, opening doors to widespread applications. However, this advancement raises serious concerns about content security, particularly wh…

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2025

Triplets Better Than Pairs: Towards Stable and Effective Self-Play Fine-Tuning for LLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recently, self-play fine-tuning (SPIN) has been proposed to adapt large language models to downstream applications with scarce expert-annotated data, by iteratively generating synthetic responses from the model itself. However, SPIN is designed to optimize the current reward advantages of annotated…

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2025

UNIC-Adapter: Unified Image-instruction Adapter with Multi-modal Transformer for Image Generation

CVPR 2025poster

Recently, text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable advancements, particularly with diffusion models facilitating high-quality image synthesis from textual descriptions. However, these models often struggle with achieving precise control over pixel-level layouts, object appearances, a…

2024

Advancing Tool-Augmented Large Language Models: Integrating Insights from Errors in Inference Trees

NeurIPS 2024poster

Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) leverage tools, often in the form of APIs, to improve their reasoning capabilities on complex tasks. This enables them to act as intelligent agents interacting with the real world. The recently introduced ToolLLaMA model by Qin et al. [2023] utilizes the d…

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2024

Wings: Learning Multimodal LLMs without Text-only Forgetting

NeurIPS 2024poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), initiated with a trained LLM, first align images with text and then fine-tune on multimodal mixed inputs. However, during the continued training, the MLLM catastrophically forgets the text-only instructions that the initial LLM masters. In this paper, we pre…

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