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Wenwei Zhang

54 accepted papers

2026

Achieving Expert-Level Agent from Foundation Model via Complexity Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Synthetic Data

ICLR 2026poster

Large language model (LLM) agents exhibit strong mathematical problem-solving abilities and can even solve International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) level problems with the assistance of formal proof systems. However, due to weak heuristics for auxiliary constructions, AI for geometry problem solvin…

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2026

Exploring Visual Pretraining for Learning Language Intelligence

CVPR 2026

While the most fundamental pretraining paradigm typically trains modality-specific models on their respective datasets, the Platonic Representation Hypothesis that representations eventually align across modalities as data and model scale suggests an intriguing possibility: large language models (LL

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

MM-HELIX: Boosting Multimodal Long-Chain Reflective Reasoning with Holistic Platform and Adaptive Hybrid Policy Optimization

ICLR 2026poster

While current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in reasoning tasks such as mathematics and logic, their capacity for long-chain reflective reasoning, a prerequisite for solving complex real-world problems, remains largely underexplored. In this work, we first co…

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2026

MindCopilot: Towards Formalizing and Evaluating Granular Human-LLM Co-Writing

IJCAI 2026

Recent writing assistants are increasingly shifting from passive, prompt-driven interaction to proactive, suggestion-based completion, which integrates localized continuations into the writing flow and reduces coordination burden. However, existing evaluations simply focus on output quality, failing

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2026

RIG: Synergizing Reasoning and Imagination in End-to-End Generalist Policy

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning before action and imagining potential outcomes (i.e., world models) are essential for embodied agents operating in complex open-world environments. Yet, prior work either incorporates only one of these abilities in an end-to-end agent or integrates multiple specialized models into an agent…

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2026

The Imitation Game: Turing Machine Imitator is Length Generalizable Reasoner

ICLR 2026poster

Length generalization, the ability to solve problems of longer sequences than those observed during training, poses a core challenge of Transformer-based large language models (LLMs). Although existing studies have predominantly focused on data-driven approaches for particular arithmetic operations…

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2026

ThoughtFold: Folding Reasoning Chains via Introspective Preference Learning

ICML 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable progress thanks to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) on Chain-of-Thoughts (CoTs). However, since long CoTs naturally contain trial and errors and mainstream RLVR approaches choose outcome-correct CoT trajectories for memoriza…

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2025

Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data and Metric Perspectives

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have fueled interest in autonomous driving applications, particularly for interpretable decision-making. However, the assumption that VLMs provide visually grounded and reliable driving explanations remains unexamined. To address this, we introduc…

2025

Are Your LLMs Capable of Stable Reasoning?

ACL 2025finding

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has shown remarkable progress in complex reasoning tasks. However, a significant disparity exists between benchmark performances and real-world applications. We attribute this gap primarily to current evaluation protocols and metrics, which inade…

2025

CompassVerifier: A Unified and Robust Verifier for LLMs Evaluation and Outcome Reward

EMNLP 2025

Answer verification is crucial not only for evaluating large language models (LLMs) by matching their unstructured outputs against standard answers, but also serves as the reward model to guide LLM optimization. Most evaluation frameworks rely on regularized matching or employ general LLMs for answe

2025

F-LMM: Grounding Frozen Large Multimodal Models

CVPR 2025poster

Endowing Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with visual grounding capability can significantly enhance AIs' understanding of the visual world and their interaction with humans. However, existing methods typically fine-tune the parameters of LMMs to learn additional segmentation tokens and overfit ground…

2025

Harmonizing Visual Representations for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation

ICCV 2025poster

Unifying visual understanding and generation within a single multimodal framework remains a significant challenge, as the two inherently heterogeneous tasks require representations at different levels of granularity. Current approaches that utilize vector quantization (VQ) or variational autoencoder…

2025

InternLM-XComposer2.5-Reward: A Simple Yet Effective Multi-Modal Reward Model

ACL 2025finding

Despite the promising performance of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) in visual understanding, they occasionally generate incorrect outputs. While reward models (RMs) with reinforcement learning or test-time scaling offer the potential for improving generation quality, a critical gap remains: pu…

2025

LLaVA-3D: A Simple yet Effective Pathway to Empowering LMMs with 3D Capabilities

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advancements in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have greatly enhanced their proficiency in 2D visual understanding tasks, enabling them to effectively process and understand images and videos. However, the development of LMMs with 3D scene understanding capabilities has been hindered by the la…

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2025

Mask-DPO: Generalizable Fine-grained Factuality Alignment of LLMs

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit hallucinations (i.e., unfaithful or nonsensical information) when serving as AI assistants in various domains. Since hallucinations always come with truthful content in the LLM responses, previous factuality alignment methods that conduct response-level preferenc…

2025

MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher

ICLR 2025poster

Information seeking and integration is a complex cognitive task that consumes enormous time and effort. Inspired by the remarkable progress of Large Language Models, recent works attempt to solve this task by combining LLMs and search engines. However, these methods still obtain unsatisfying perform…

2025

Pre-Trained Policy Discriminators are General Reward Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

We offer a novel perspective on reward modeling by formulating it as a policy discriminator, which quantifies the difference between two policies to generate a reward signal, guiding the training policy towards a target policy with desired behaviors. Based on this conceptual insight, we propose a sc…

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2025

Rethinking Verification for LLM Code Generation: From Generation to Testing

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently achieved notable success in code‑generation benchmarks such as HumanEval and LiveCodeBench. However, a detailed examination reveals that these evaluation suites often comprise only a limited number of homogeneous test cases, resulting in subtle faults going…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Semi-off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language Slow-Thinking Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Enhancing large vision-language models (LVLMs) with visual slow-thinking reasoning is crucial for solving complex multimodal tasks. However, since LVLMs are mainly trained with vision-language alignment, it is difficult to adopt on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) to develop the slow thinking abil…

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2025

Training Language Models to Critique With Multi-agent Feedback

EMNLP 2025

Critique ability, a meta-cognitive capability of humans, presents significant challenges for LLMs to improve. While utilizing human annotation can enhance critique ability effectively, most recent works primarily rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using critiques generated by a single LLM like GPT

2024

4D Contrastive Superflows are Dense 3D Representation Learners

ECCV 2024poster

"In the realm of autonomous driving, accurate 3D perception is the foundation. However, developing such models relies on extensive human annotations – a process that is both costly and labor-intensive. To address this challenge from a data representation learning perspective, we introduce SuperFlow,…

2024

ANAH-v2: Scaling Analytical Hallucination Annotation of Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit hallucinations in long-form question-answering tasks across various domains and wide applications. Current hallucination detection and mitigation datasets are limited in domain and size, which struggle to scale due to prohibitive labor costs and insufficient reli…

2024

ANAH: Analytical Annotation of Hallucinations in Large Language Models

ACL 2024long

Reducing the ‘hallucination' problem of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for their wide applications. A comprehensive and fine-grained measurement of the hallucination is the first key step for the governance of this issue but is under-explored in the community.Thus, we present ANAH, a biling…

2024

Agent-FLAN: Designing Data and Methods of Effective Agent Tuning for Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Open-sourced Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved great success in various NLP tasks, however, they are still far inferior to API-based models when acting as agents. How to integrate agent ability into general LLMs becomes a crucial and urgent problem.This paper first delivers three key observ…

2024

AlchemistCoder: Harmonizing and Eliciting Code Capability by Hindsight Tuning on Multi-source Data

NeurIPS 2024poster

Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) and their specialized variants, particularly Code LLMs, have recently delivered impressive performance. However, previous Code LLMs are typically fine-tuned on single-source data with limited quality and diversity, which may insufficiently elicit the potentia…

2024

CLIM: Contrastive Language-Image Mosaic for Region Representation

AAAI 2024technical

Detecting objects accurately from a large or open vocabulary necessitates the vision-language alignment on region representations. However, learning such a region-text alignment by obtaining high-quality box annotations with text labels or descriptions is expensive and infeasible. In contrast, colle…

2024

CLIPSelf: Vision Transformer Distills Itself for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction

ICLR 2024spotlight

Open-vocabulary dense prediction tasks including object detection and image segmentation have been advanced by the success of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP). CLIP models, particularly those incorporating vision transformers (ViTs), have exhibited remarkable generalization ability in…

2024

Can AI Assistants Know What They Don't Know?

ICML 2024poster

AI assistants powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various tasks. However, LLMs still make factual errors in knowledge-intensive tasks such as open-domain question answering. These untruthful responses from AI assistants can pose significant risks in pr…

2024

Code Needs Comments: Enhancing Code LLMs with Comment Augmentation

ACL 2024findings

The programming skill is one crucial ability for Large Language Models (LLMs), necessitating a deep understanding of programming languages (PLs) and their correlation with natural languages (NLs). We examine the impact of pre-training data on code-focused LLMs’ performance by assessing the comment d…

2024

CriticEval: Evaluating Large-scale Language Model as Critic

NeurIPS 2024poster

Critique ability, i.e., the capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify and rectify flaws in responses, is crucial for their applications in self-improvement and scalable oversight. While numerous studies have been proposed to evaluate critique ability of LLMs, their comprehensiveness and…

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2024

EmbodiedScan: A Holistic Multi-Modal 3D Perception Suite Towards Embodied AI

CVPR 2024poster

In the realm of computer vision and robotics embodied agents are expected to explore their environment and carry out human instructions. This necessitates the ability to fully understand 3D scenes given their first-person observations and contextualize them into language for interaction. However tra…

2024

Fake Alignment: Are LLMs Really Aligned Well?

NAACL 2024long

The growing awareness of safety concerns in large language models (LLMs) has sparked considerable interest in the evaluation of safety. This study investigates an under-explored issue about the evaluation of LLMs, namely the substantial discrepancy in performance between multiple-choice questions an…

2024

InternLM-XComposer2-4KHD: A Pioneering Large Vision-Language Model Handling Resolutions from 336 Pixels to 4K HD

NeurIPS 2024poster

The Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) field has seen significant advancements, yet its progression has been hindered by challenges in comprehending fine-grained visual content due to limited resolution. Recent efforts have aimed to enhance the high-resolution understanding capabilities of LVLMs, ye…

2024

MathBench: Evaluating the Theory and Application Proficiency of LLMs with a Hierarchical Mathematics Benchmark

ACL 2024findings

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have showcased significant improvements in mathematics. However, traditional math benchmarks like GSM8k offer a unidimensional perspective, which fall short in providing a holistic assessment of the LLMs’ math capabilities. To address this gap, we…

2024

OMG-Seg: Is One Model Good Enough For All Segmentation?

CVPR 2024poster

In this work we address various segmentation tasks each traditionally tackled by distinct or partially unified models. We propose OMG-Seg One Model that is Good enough to efficiently and effectively handle all the segmentation tasks including image semantic instance and panoptic segmentation as well…

2024

ScanReason: Empowering 3D Visual Grounding with Reasoning Capabilities

ECCV 2024poster

"Although great progress has been made in 3D visual grounding, current models still rely on explicit textual descriptions for grounding and lack the ability to reason human intentions from implicit instructions. We propose a new task called and introduce a new benchmark ScanReason which provides ove…

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2024

T-Eval: Evaluating the Tool Utilization Capability of Large Language Models Step by Step

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on various NLP tasks and are augmented by tools for broader applications. Yet, how to evaluate and analyze the tool utilization capability of LLMs is still under-explored. In contrast to previous works that evaluate models holisticall…

2024

Unified Human-Scene Interaction via Prompted Chain-of-Contacts

ICLR 2024spotlight

Human-Scene Interaction (HSI) is a vital component of fields like embodied AI and virtual reality. Despite advancements in motion quality and physical plausibility, two pivotal factors, versatile interaction control and the development of a user-friendly interface, require further exploration before…

2023

Aligning Bag of Regions for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

CVPR 2023poster

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) learn to align vision and language representations on large-scale datasets, where each image-text pair usually contains a bag of semantic concepts. However, existing open-vocabulary object detectors only align region embeddings individually with the correspo…

2023

Dense Distinct Query for End-to-End Object Detection

CVPR 2023poster

One-to-one label assignment in object detection has successfully obviated the need of non-maximum suppression (NMS) as a postprocessing and makes the pipeline end-to-end. However, it triggers a new dilemma as the widely used sparse queries cannot guarantee a high recall, while dense queries inevitab…

2023

MV-JAR: Masked Voxel Jigsaw and Reconstruction for LiDAR-Based Self-Supervised Pre-Training

CVPR 2023poster

This paper introduces the Masked Voxel Jigsaw and Reconstruction (MV-JAR) method for LiDAR-based self-supervised pre-training and a carefully designed data-efficient 3D object detection benchmark on the Waymo dataset. Inspired by the scene-voxel-point hierarchy in downstream 3D object detectors, we…

2023

OV-PARTS: Towards Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is a crucial ability in applications spanning various computer vision and robotic tasks. While significant progress has been made in object-level Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS), i.e., segmenting objects with arbitrary text, the correspond…

2023

Robo3D: Towards Robust and Reliable 3D Perception against Corruptions

ICCV 2023poster

The robustness of 3D perception systems under natural corruptions from environments and sensors is pivotal for safety-critical applications. Existing large-scale 3D perception datasets often contain data that are meticulously cleaned. Such configurations, however, cannot reflect the reliability of p…

Cited by 123PDFcodeScholar
2023

Segment Any Point Cloud Sequences by Distilling Vision Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Recent advancements in vision foundation models (VFMs) have opened up new possibilities for versatile and efficient visual perception. In this work, we introduce Seal, a novel framework that harnesses VFMs for segmenting diverse automotive point cloud sequences. Seal exhibits three appealing propert…

Cited by 66SourcePDFScholar
2023

Tube-Link: A Flexible Cross Tube Framework for Universal Video Segmentation

ICCV 2023poster

Video segmentation aims to segment and track every pixel in diverse scenarios accurately. In this paper, we present Tube-Link, a versatile framework that addresses multiple core tasks of video segmentation with a unified architecture. Our framework is a near-online approach that takes a short subcli…

Cited by 56PDFcodeScholar
2022

Dense Siamese Network for Dense Unsupervised Learning

ECCV 2022poster

"This paper presents Dense Siamese Network (DenseSiam), a simple unsupervised learning framework for dense prediction tasks. It learns visual representations by maximizing the similarity between two views of one image with two types of consistency, i.e., pixel consistency and region consistency. Con…

2022

Video K-Net: A Simple, Strong, and Unified Baseline for Video Segmentation

CVPR 2022oral

This paper presents Video K-Net, a simple, strong, and unified framework for fully end-to-end video panoptic segmentation. The method is built upon K-Net, a method that unifies image segmentation via a group of learnable kernels. We observe that these learnable kernels from K-Net, which encode objec…

Cited by 107PDFcodeScholar
2021

Seesaw Loss for Long-Tailed Instance Segmentation

CVPR 2021poster

Instance segmentation has witnessed a remarkable progress on class-balanced benchmarks. However, they fail to perform as accurately in real-world scenarios, where the category distribution of objects naturally comes with a long tail. Instances of head classes dominate a long-tailed dataset and they…

Cited by 326PDFcodeScholar
2020

EcoNAS: Finding Proxies for Economical Neural Architecture Search

CVPR 2020poster

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) achieves significant progress in many computer vision tasks. While many methods are proposed to improve the efficiency of NAS, the search progress is still laborious because training and evaluating plausible architectures over large search space is time-consuming. As…

Cited by 151PDFScholar
2020

More Information Supervised Probabilistic Deep Face Embedding Learning

ICML 2020poster

Researches using margin based comparison loss demonstrate the effectiveness of penalizing the distance between face feature and their corresponding class centers. Despite their popularity and excellent performance, they do not explicitly encourage the generic embedding learning for an open set recog…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2020

Side-Aware Boundary Localization for More Precise Object Detection

ECCV 2020poster

Current object detection frameworks mainly rely on bounding box regression to localize objects. Despite the remarkable progress in recent years, the precision of bounding box regression remains unsatisfactory, hence limiting performance in object detection. We observe that precise localization requi…

2019

Robust Multi-Modality Multi-Object Tracking

ICCV 2019poster

Multi-sensor perception is crucial to ensure the reliability and accuracy in autonomous driving system, while multi-object tracking (MOT) improves that by tracing sequential movement of dynamic objects. Most current approaches for multi-sensor multi-object tracking are either lack of reliability by…

Cited by 272PDFcodeScholar