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Xinnan Dai

7 accepted papers

2026

Fix Before Search: Benchmarking Agentic Visual Query Pre-processing in Multimodal Retrieval-augmented Generation

ICML 2026poster

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MRAG) has emerged as a key paradigm for grounding MLLMs with external knowledge. While query pre-processing (e.g., rewriting) is standard in text-based RAG, existing MRAG pipelines predominantly treat visual inputs as static and immutable, implicitly assumi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

When Do Hallucinations Arise? A Graph Perspective on the Evolution of Path Reuse and Path Compression

ICML 2026poster

Reasoning hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) often appear as fluent yet unsupported conclusions that violate either the given context or underlying factual knowledge. Although such failures are widely observed, the mechanisms by which decoder-only Transformers produce them remain poorly …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

From Sequence to Structure: Uncovering Substructure Reasoning in Transformers

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent studies suggest that large language models (LLMs) possess the capability to solve graph reasoning tasks. Notably, even when graph structures are embedded within textual descriptions, LLMs can still effectively answer related questions. This raises a fundamental question: How can a decoder-onl…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

How Do Large Language Models Understand Graph Patterns? A Benchmark for Graph Pattern Comprehension

ICLR 2025poster

Benchmarking the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs) in graph-related tasks is becoming an increasingly popular and crucial area of research. Recent studies have shown that LLMs exhibit a preliminary ability to understand graph structures and node features. However, the pote…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

CellPLM: Pre-training of Cell Language Model Beyond Single Cells

ICLR 2024poster

The current state-of-the-art single-cell pre-trained models are greatly inspired by the success of large language models. They trained transformers by treating genes as tokens and cells as sentences. However, three fundamental differences between single-cell data and natural language data are overlo…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2023

Explaining Temporal Graph Models through an Explorer-Navigator Framework

ICLR 2023poster

While GNN explanation has recently received significant attention, existing works are consistently designed for static graphs. Due to the prevalence of temporal graphs, many temporal graph models have been proposed, but explaining their predictions remains to be explored. To bridge the gap, in this…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar