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Kun Ouyang

10 accepted papers

2026

Conan: Progressive Learning to Reason Like a Detective over Multi-Scale Visual Evidence

CVPR 2026

Video reasoning, which requires multi-step deduction across frames, remains a major challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods enhance reasoning capabilities, they often rely on text-only chains that yield ungrounded or hallucinated conclu

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2026

OmniDenseCap: Scripting Multi-Scene Videos with Time-Aware and Structural Audio-Visual Captions

ICML 2026poster

This paper proposes Omni Dense Captioning, a novel task designed to generate continuous, fine-grained, and structured audio-visual narratives with explicit timestamps. To ensure dense semantic coverage, we introduce a six-dimensional structural schema to create "script-like" captions, enabling reade…

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2026

ReaForest: Fostering Generative Video Reasoning for Spatial Planning

ICML 2026poster

Verbal logic and visual mental simulation are two essential components of human intelligence. Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong verbal reasoning capabilities through textual Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. In contrast, current Video Generation Models (VGMs) struggle with…

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2026

TEMPLE: Incentivizing Temporal Understanding of Video Large Language Models via Progressive Pre-SFT Alignment

AAAI 2026technical

Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) have achieved significant success by adopting the paradigm of large-scale pre-training followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, existing approaches struggle with temporal reasoning due to weak temporal correspondence in the data and over-reliance on

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2026

VideoReasonBench: Can MLLMs Perform Vision-Centric Complex Video Reasoning?

ICLR 2026poster

Recent studies have shown that long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning can significantly enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex tasks. However, this benefit is yet to be demonstrated in the domain of video understanding, since most existing benchmarks lack the reasoning dep…

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2026

VideoSeeker: Native Interleaved Clue Seeking for Long Video Multi-Hop Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Existing multimodal large language models for long-video understanding predominantly rely on uniform sampling and single-turn inference, limiting their ability to identify sparse yet critical evidence amid extensive redundancy. We introduce VideoSeeker, a novel framework that supports iterative disc…

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2025

Generative Frame Sampler for Long Video Understanding

ACL 2025finding

Despite recent advances in Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs), effectively understanding long-form videos remains a significant challenge. Perceiving lengthy videos containing thousands of frames poses substantial computational burden. To mitigate this issue, this paper introduces Generative Fr…

2025

PunchBench: Benchmarking MLLMs in Multimodal Punchline Comprehension

ACL 2025long

Multimodal punchlines, which involve humor or sarcasm conveyed in image-caption pairs, are a popular way of communication on online multimedia platforms. With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), it is essential to assess their ability to effectively comprehend these pu…

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2023

Multi-source Semantic Graph-based Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation Generation

ACL 2023long

Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation (MuSE) is a new yet challenging task, which aims to generate a natural language sentence for a multimodal social post (an image as well as its caption) to explain why it contains sarcasm. Although the existing pioneer study has achieved great success with the BART back…

2021

Modeling Trajectories with Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

IJCAI 2021poster

Recent advances in location-acquisition techniques have generated massive spatial trajectory data. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are modern tools for modeling such trajectory data. After revisiting RNN-based methods for trajectory modeling, we expose two common critical drawbacks in the existing…

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