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Shaosheng Cao

12 accepted papers

2026

Balancing Understanding and Generation in Discrete Diffusion Models

ICML 2026spotlight

In discrete generative modeling, two dominant paradigms demonstrate divergent capabilities: Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLM) excel at semantic understanding and zero-shot generalization, whereas Uniform-noise Diffusion Language Models (UDLM) achieve strong few-step generation quality, yet nei…

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2026

CompBench: Benchmarking Complex Instruction-guided Image Editing

CVPR 2026

While real-world applications increasingly demand intricate scene manipulation, existing instruction-guided image editing benchmarks often oversimplify task complexity and lack comprehensive, fine-grained instructions. To bridge this gap, we introduce CompBench, a large-scale benchmark specifically

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2026

Decouple Searching from Training: Scaling Data Mixing via Model Merging for Large Language Model Pre-training

ICML 2026poster

Determining an effective data mixture is a key factor in Large Language Model (LLM) pre-training, where models must balance general competence with proficiency on hard tasks such as math and code. However, identifying an optimal mixture remains an open challenge, as existing approaches either rely o…

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2026

Interleaving Reasoning for Better Text-to-Image Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Unified multimodal understanding and generation models recently have achieve significant improvement in image generation capability, yet a large gap remains in instruction following and detail preservation compared to systems that tightly couple comprehension with generation such as GPT-4o. Motivate…

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2026

Vision-DeepResearch: Incentivizing DeepResearch Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success across a broad range of vision tasks. However, constrained by the capacity of their internal world knowledge, prior work has proposed augmenting MLLMs by ``reasoning-then-tool-call'' for visual and textual search engines to ob…

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2026

Vision-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in Multimodal Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

DeepSeek-R1-Zero has successfully demonstrated the emergence of reasoning capabilities in LLMs purely through Reinforcement Learning (RL). Inspired by this breakthrough, we explore how RL can be utilized to enhance the reasoning capability of MLLMs. However, direct training with RL struggles to act…

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2025

Actial: Activate Spatial Reasoning Ability of Multimodal Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved 2D visual understanding, prompting interest in their application to complex 3D reasoning tasks. However, it remains unclear whether these models can effectively capture the detailed spatial information required f…

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2025

Dynamic-LLaVA: Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Vision-language Context Sparsification

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in vision understanding, reasoning, and interaction. However, the inference computation and memory increase progressively with the generation of output tokens during decoding, directly affecting the efficacy of MLLMs. Existing…

2025

IW-Bench: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models for Converting Image-to-Web

ACL 2025finding

Recently, advancements in large multimodal models have led to significant strides in image comprehension capabilities. Despite these advancements, there is a lack of a robust benchmark specifically for assessing the image‐to‐web conversion proficiency of these large models. It is essential to ensure…

2025

MIRAGE: Exploring How Large Language Models Perform in Complex Social Interactive Environments

ACL 2025short

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in environmental perception, reasoning-based decision-making, and simulating complex human behaviors, particularly in interactive role-playing contexts. This paper introduces the Multiverse Interactive Role-play Ability General Evaluati…

2025

MT-R1-Zero: Advancing LLM-based Machine Translation via R1-Zero-like Reinforcement Learning

EMNLP 2025

Large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) methods have proven highly effective in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), particularly for tasks with verifiable solutions such as mathematics and coding. However, applying this idea to machine translation (MT), where outputs a

2025

SNS-Bench: Defining, Building, and Assessing Capabilities of Large Language Models in Social Networking Services

ICML 2025poster

With the rapid advancement of Social Networking Services (SNS), the need for intelligent and efficient interaction within diverse platforms has become more crucial. Large Language Models (LLMs) play an important role in SNS as they possess the potential to revolutionize user experience, content gene…

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