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Pengfei Hu

19 accepted papers

2026

Exploring Accurate and Transparent Domain Adaptation in Predictive Healthcare via Concept-Grounded Orthogonal Inference

ICML 2026poster

Deep learning models for clinical event prediction on electronic health records (EHR) often suffer performance degradation when deployed under different data distributions. While domain adaptation (DA) methods can mitigate such shifts, its "black-box" nature prevents widespread adoption in clinical …

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2026

THOR: Tool-Integrated Hierarchical Optimization via RL for Mathematical Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in mathematical reasoning, but still continue to struggle with high-precision tasks like numerical computation and formal symbolic manipulation. Integrating external tools has emerged as a promising approach to bridge this gap. Despite recen…

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2026

Thinking with Drafts: Speculative Temporal Reasoning for Efficient Long Video Understanding

CVPR 2026

Long video understanding is essential for human-like intelligence, enabling coherent perception and reasoning over extended temporal contexts. While the emerging thinking-with-frames paradigm--which alternates between global temporal reasoning and local frame examination--has advanced the reasoning

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2026

Training Prompt Matters: State-Adaptive Optimization for Robust Fine-Tuning

ICML 2026poster

While prompt engineering is instrumental in maximizing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) during inference, the role of prompts during training remains critically underexplored. Prevailing fine-tuning paradigms typically treat training prompts as mere surface forms, assuming that seman…

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2026

Video SimpleQA: Towards Factuality Evaluation in Large Video Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Recent advancements in Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) have highlighted their potential for multi-modal understanding, yet evaluating their factual grounding in videos remains a critical unsolved challenge. To address this gap, we introduce Video SimpleQA, the first comprehensive benchmark tailo

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2025

DAWN: Dynamic Frame Avatar with Non-autoregressive Diffusion Framework for Talking head Video Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Talking head generation intends to produce vivid and realistic talking head videos from a single portrait and speech audio clip. Although significant progress has been made in diffusion-based talking head generation, almost all methods rely on autoregressive strategies, which suffer from limited con…

2025

DocMamba: Efficient Document Pre-training with State Space Model

AAAI 2025technical

In recent years, visually-rich document understanding has attracted increasing attention. Transformer-based pre-trained models have become the mainstream approach, yielding significant performance gains in this field. However, the self-attention mechanism's quadratic computational complexity hinders…

2025

Joint Knowledge Editing for Information Enrichment and Probability Promotion

AAAI 2025technical

Knowledge stored in large language models requires timely updates to reflect the dynamic nature of real-world information. To update the knowledge, most knowledge editing methods focus on the low layers, since recent probes into the knowledge recall process reveal that the answer information is enri…

2025

No Black Boxes: Interpretable and Interactable Predictive Healthcare with Knowledge-Enhanced Agentic Causal Discovery

EMNLP 2025

Deep learning models trained on extensive Electronic Health Records (EHR) data have achieved high accuracy in diagnosis prediction, offering the potential to assist clinicians in decision-making and treatment planning. However, these models lack two crucial features that clinicians highly value: int

2025

No Loss, No Gain: Gated Refinement and Adaptive Compression for Prompt Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Prompt engineering is crucial for leveraging the full potential of large language models (LLMs). While automatic prompt optimization offers a scalable alternative to costly manual design, generating effective prompts remains challenging. Existing methods often struggle to stably generate improved pr…

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2025

RFL: Simplifying Chemical Structure Recognition with Ring-Free Language

AAAI 2025technical

The primary objective of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition is to identify chemical structure images into corresponding markup sequences. However, the complex two-dimensional structures of molecules, particularly those with rings and multiple branches, present significant challenges for current…

2024

SEMv3: A Fast and Robust Approach to Table Separation Line Detection

IJCAI 2024poster

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims to parse the inherent structure of a table from its input image. The "split-and-merge" paradigm is a pivotal approach to parse table structure, where the table separation line detection is crucial. However, challenges such as wireless and deformed tables make i…

2024

SRFUND: A Multi-Granularity Hierarchical Structure Reconstruction Benchmark in Form Understanding

NeurIPS 2024poster

Accurately identifying and organizing textual content is crucial for the automation of document processing in the field of form understanding. Existing datasets, such as FUNSD and XFUND, support entity classification and relationship prediction tasks but are typically limited to local and entity-lev…

2024

UniTabNet: Bridging Vision and Language Models for Enhanced Table Structure Recognition

EMNLP 2024finding

In the digital era, table structure recognition technology is a critical tool for processing and analyzing large volumes of tabular data. Previous methods primarily focus on visual aspects of table structure recovery but often fail to effectively comprehend the textual semantics within tables, parti…

2024

Viewing Writing as Video: Optical Flow based Multi-Modal Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition

ICASSP 2024accepted

Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) forms a crucial task in the domain of document intelligence. It encompasses online and offline modalities, which utilize the trajectory sequence and static image as input, respectively. It is intuitive to utilize both online and offline modaliti…

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2023

HRDoc: Dataset and Baseline Method toward Hierarchical Reconstruction of Document Structures

AAAI 2023technical

The problem of document structure reconstruction refers to converting digital or scanned documents into corresponding semantic structures. Most existing works mainly focus on splitting the boundary of each element in a single document page, neglecting the reconstruction of semantic structure in mult…

2023

Speech2Lip: High-fidelity Speech to Lip Generation by Learning from a Short Video

ICCV 2023poster

Synthesizing realistic videos according to a given speech is still an open challenge. Previous works have been plagued by issues such as inaccurate lip shape generation and poor image quality. The key reason is that only motions and appearances on limited facial areas (e.g., lip area) are mainly dri…

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2022

Defensive Patches for Robust Recognition in the Physical World

CVPR 2022poster

To operate in real-world high-stakes environments, deep learning systems have to endure noises that have been continuously thwarting their robustness. Data-end defense, which improves robustness by operations on input data instead of modifying models, has attracted intensive attention due to its hig…

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