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Yi R. Fung

20 accepted papers

2026

Dancing in Chains: Strategic Persuasion in Academic Rebuttal via Theory of Mind

ICLR 2026poster

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has become deeply integrated into various stages of the research workflow and achieved remarkable advancements, academic rebuttal remains a significant and underexplored challenge. This is because rebuttal is a complex process of strategic communication under se…

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2026

Diversity-Enhanced Reasoning for Subjective Questions

ICLR 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) with long chain-of-thought capabilities, optimized via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), excel at **objective reasoning** tasks like mathematical problem solving and code generation. However, RLVR is known for degrading generation diversity, which c…

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2026

LeanForPhysics: Comprehensive Reasoning Framework for University-level Physics in Lean4

ICLR 2026poster

We present **Lean4PHYS**, a comprehensive reasoning framework for college-level physics problems in Lean4. **Lean4PHYS** includes *LeanPhysBench*, a college-level benchmark for Lean4 formal physics reasoning, which contains 200 hand-crafted and peer-reviewed statements formalized from university tex…

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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

WebWatcher: Breaking New Frontiers of Vision-Language Deep Research Agent

ICLR 2026poster

Web agents such as deep research have demonstrated superhuman cognitive abilities, capable of solving highly challenging information-seeking problems. However, most research remains largely text-centric, overlooking visual information in the real world. This makes multimodal deep research highly cha…

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2025

Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via Interaction

COLING 2025main

As large language models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly advanced capabilities, aligning their behaviors with human values and preferences becomes crucial for their wide adoption. While previous research focuses on general alignment to principles such as helpfulness, harmlessness, and honesty, the n…

2025

CALM: Unleashing the Cross-Lingual Self-Aligning Ability of Language Model Question Answering

NAACL 2025findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) are pretrained on extensive multilingual corpora to acquire both language-specific cultural knowledge and general knowledge. Ideally, while LLMs should provide consistent responses to culture-independent questions across languages, we observe significant performance disp…

2025

End-to-End Optimization for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Reward Backpropagation

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MM-RAG) has emerged as a promising approach for enhancing the reliability and factuality of large vision-language models (LVLMs). While end-to-end loss backpropagation is infeasible due to non-differentiable operations during the forward process, current me

2025

Let’s Reason Formally: Natural-Formal Hybrid Reasoning Enhances LLM’s Math Capability

EMNLP 2025

Enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities of LLMs has garnered significant attention in both the mathematical and computer science communities. Recent works have made substantial progress in both Natural Language (NL) reasoning and Formal Language (FL) reasoning by leveraging the potential o

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2025

MAC-Tuning: LLM Multi-Compositional Problem Reasoning with Enhanced Knowledge Boundary Awareness

EMNLP 2025

With the widespread application of large language models (LLMs), the issue of generating non-existing facts, known as hallucination, has garnered increasing attention. Previous research in enhancing LLM confidence estimation mainly focuses on the single problem setting. However, LLM awareness of its

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2025

MMBoundary: Advancing MLLM Knowledge Boundary Awareness through Reasoning Step Confidence Calibration

ACL 2025long

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress but continue to face inherent challenges in multimodal reasoning, which requires multi-level (e.g., perception, reasoning) and multi-granular (e.g., multi-step reasoning chain) advanced inferencing. Prior work o…

2025

MedEBench: Diagnosing Reliability in Text-Guided Medical Image Editing

EMNLP 2025

Text-guided image editing has seen significant progress in natural image domains, but its application in medical imaging remains limited and lacks standardized evaluation frameworks. Such editing could revolutionize clinical practices by enabling personalized surgical planning, enhancing medical edu

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2025

MimeQA: Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

As AI becomes more closely integrated with peoples' daily activities, socially intelligent AI that can understand and interact seamlessly with humans in daily lives is increasingly important. However, current works in AI social reasoning all rely on language-only or language-dominant approaches to b…

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2025

Self-Correction is More than Refinement: A Learning Framework for Visual and Language Reasoning Tasks

ACL 2025finding

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable abilities, they invariably generate flawed responses. Self-correction that instructs models to refine their outputs presents a promising solution to this issue. Previous studies have mainly concentrated on Large Language Models (LLMs), while…

2025

TAMP: Token-Adaptive Layerwise Pruning in Multimodal Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable versatility in understanding diverse multimodal data and tasks. However, these capabilities come with an increased model scale. While post-training pruning reduces model size in unimodal models, its application to MLLMs often yields limi…

2025

The Law of Knowledge Overshadowing: Towards Understanding, Predicting and Preventing LLM Hallucination

ACL 2025finding

Hallucination is a persistent challenge in large language models (LLMs), where even with rigorous quality control, models often generate distorted facts. This paradox, in which error generation continues despite high-quality training data, calls for a deeper understanding of the underlying LLM mecha…

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2025

Unveiling the Lack of LVLM Robustness to Fundamental Visual Variations: Why and Path Forward

ACL 2025finding

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance on various vision-language tasks. However, while objects in natural scenes inevitably exhibit visual variations in position, scale, orientation, and context due to changes in viewpoint and environment, the robustness of LVLMs to…

2025

VLM2-Bench: A Closer Look at How Well VLMs Implicitly Link Explicit Matching Visual Cues

ACL 2025long

Visually linking matching cues is a crucial ability in daily life, such as identifying the same person in multiple photos based on their cues, even without knowing who they are. Despite the extensive knowledge that vision-language models (VLMs) possess, it remains largely unexplored whether they are…

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2022

A Zero-Shot Claim Detection Framework Using Question Answering

COLING 2022main

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in claim detection as an important building block for misinformation detection. This involves detecting more fine-grained attributes relating to the claim, such as the claimer, claim topic, claim object pertaining to the topic, etc. Yet, a notab…