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Xiaosong Yuan

9 accepted papers

2026

Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repetition Curse in Diffusion MLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective

ICLR 2026poster

Recent diffusion-based Multimodal Large Language Models (dMLLMs) suffer from high inference latency and therefore rely on caching techniques to accelerate decoding. However, the application of cache mechanisms often introduces undesirable repetitive text generation, a phenomenon we term the Repeat C…

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2026

Differential Fine-Tuning Large Language Models Towards Better Diverse Reasoning Abilities

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) require explicit derivations compared to general question-answering, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can empower multiple reasoning abilities in LLMs via learning from various datasets. However, neither training the datasets jointly (mix-up) nor conti…

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2026

Hallucination Begins Where Saliency Drops

ICLR 2026oral

Recent studies have investigated attention dynamics in large vision language models (LVLMs), yet existing methods remain limited in reliably distinguishing hallucinated from correct outputs — primarily because they rely solely on forward-pass attention, ignoring gradient-based signals that reveal ho…

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2026

Uncovering the Gradient Geometry of Long CoT: A Spectral-guided Approach to Reasoning Distillation

ICML 2026poster

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve remarkable reasoning performance by generating long chains-of-thought (CoT). However, standard supervised fine-tuning (SFT) treats all tokens uniformly, indiscriminately minimizing loss across both essential reasoning steps and those that are noisy, redundant, o…

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2025

From Redundancy to Relevance: Information Flow in LVLMs Across Reasoning Tasks

NAACL 2025long

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve great performance on visual-language reasoning tasks, however, the black-box nature of LVLMs hinders in-depth research on the reasoning mechanism. As all images need to be converted into image tokens to fit the input format of large language models (LLMs)…

2025

Improving Complex Reasoning with Dynamic Prompt Corruption: A Soft Prompt Optimization Approach

ICLR 2025poster

Prompt Tuning (PT) has emerged as a promising Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) approach by appending trainable continuous prompt vectors to the input, maintaining competitive performance with significantly fewer trainable parameters. While PT has shown effectiveness in enhancing task performan…

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2025

SalaMAnder: Shapley-based Mathematical Expression Attribution and Metric for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enhances the math reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) to a large margin. However, the mechanism underlying such improvements remains unexplored. In this paper, we present SalaMAnder ( S h a p l ey-b a sed M athematical Expression A ttribution a nd M

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2025

Shallow Focus, Deep Fixes: Enhancing Shallow Layers Vision Attention Sinks to Alleviate Hallucination in LVLMs

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate excellent abilities for understanding visual information, while the hallucination remains. Albeit image tokens constitute the majority of the MLLMs input, the relation between image tokens and hallucinations is still unexplored. In this paper, we

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2024

Instance-adaptive Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought Prompting

NeurIPS 2024poster

Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting emerges as a simple and effective strategy for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) in real-world reasoning tasks. Nonetheless, the efficacy of a singular, task-level prompt uniformly applied across the whole of instances is inherently…

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