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Qihan Ren

12 accepted papers

2026

Benchmarking Multimodal Knowledge Conflict for Large Multimodal Models

AAAI 2026technical

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) face notable challenges when encountering multimodal knowledge conflicts, particularly under retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks, where the contextual information from external sources may contradict the model’s internal parametric knowledge, leading to unr

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2026

Can LLMs Reason Soundly in Law? Auditing Inference Patterns for Legal Judgment

ICLR 2026poster

This paper presents a method to analyze the inference patterns used by Large Language Models (LLMs) for judgment in a case study on legal LLMs, so as to identify potential incorrect representations of the LLM, according to human domain knowledge. Unlike traditional evaluations on language generation…

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2026

Conditional Advantage Estimation for Reinforcement Learning in Large Reasoning Models

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable progress in enhancing LLMs’ reasoning capabilities on tasks with clear correctness criteria, such as mathematical reasoning tasks. Several training metrics, such as entropy or response leng…

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2026

Towards Self-Evolving Agent Benchmarks : Validatable Agent Trajectory via Test-Time Exploration

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and agent system designs have empowered agents with unprecedented levels of capability. However, existing agent benchmarks are showing a trend of rapid ceiling-hitting by newly developed agents, making it difficult to meet the demands for evaluating ag…

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2026

Your Agent May Misevolve: Emergent Risks in Self-evolving LLM Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled a new class of \textbf{\textit{self-evolving agents}} that autonomously improve through interaction with the environment, demonstrating strong capabilities. However, self-evolution also introduces novel risks overlooked by current safety research…

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2024

Towards the Dynamics of a DNN Learning Symbolic Interactions

NeurIPS 2024poster

This study proves the two-phase dynamics of a deep neural network (DNN) learning interactions. Despite the long disappointing view of the faithfulness of post-hoc explanation of a DNN, a series of theorems have been proven [27] in recent years to show that for a given input sample, a small set of in…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Where We Have Arrived in Proving the Emergence of Sparse Interaction Primitives in DNNs

ICLR 2024poster

This study aims to prove the emergence of symbolic concepts (or more precisely, sparse primitive inference patterns) in well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs). Specifically, we prove the following three conditions for the emergence. (i) The high-order derivatives of the network output with respect…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

Bayesian Neural Networks Avoid Encoding Complex and Perturbation-Sensitive Concepts

ICML 2023poster

In this paper, we focus on mean-field variational Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) and explore the representation capacity of such BNNs by investigating which types of concepts are less likely to be encoded by the BNN. It has been observed and studied that a relatively small set of interactive concep…

2023

Towards the Difficulty for a Deep Neural Network to Learn Concepts of Different Complexities

NeurIPS 2023poster

This paper theoretically explains the intuition that simple concepts are more likely to be learned by deep neural networks (DNNs) than complex concepts. In fact, recent studies have observed [24, 15] and proved [26] the emergence of interactive concepts in a DNN, i.e., it is proven that a DNN usuall…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2022

DISCOVERING AND EXPLAINING THE REPRESENTATION BOTTLENECK OF DNNS

ICLR 2022oral

This paper explores the bottleneck of feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs), from the perspective of the complexity of interactions between input variables encoded in DNNs. To this end, we focus on the multi-order interaction between input variables, where the order represents the c…

2021

Interpreting Representation Quality of DNNs for 3D Point Cloud Processing

NeurIPS 2021poster

In this paper, we evaluate the quality of knowledge representations encoded in deep neural networks (DNNs) for 3D point cloud processing. We propose a method to disentangle the overall model vulnerability into the sensitivity to the rotation, the translation, the scale, and local 3D structures. Besi…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar