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Yibo Yan

25 accepted papers

2026

AudioTrust: Benchmarking The Multifaceted Trustworthiness of Audio Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

The rapid development and widespread adoption of Audio Large Language Models (ALLMs) require a rigorous assessment of their trustworthiness. However, existing evaluation frameworks, primarily designed for text, are not equipped to handle the unique vulnerabilities introduced by audio’s acoustic prop…

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2026

PMark: Towards Robust and Distortion-free Semantic-level Watermarking with Channel Constraints

ICLR 2026poster

Semantic-level watermarking (SWM) for large language models (LLMs) enhances watermarking robustness against text modifications and paraphrasing attacks by treating the sentence as the fundamental unit. However, existing methods still lack strong theoretical guarantees of robustness, and reject-sampl…

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2026

Sharp Eyes and Memory for VideoLLMs: Information-Aware Visual Token Pruning for Efficient and Reliable VideoLLM Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Current Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) suffer from quadratic computational complexity and key-value cache scaling, due to their reliance on processing excessive redundant visual tokens. To address this problem, we propose SharpV, a minimalist and efficient method for adaptive pruning of vis

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2025

A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Model: Benchmark, Method & Challenges

ACL 2025finding

Mathematical reasoning, a core aspect of human cognition, is vital across many domains, from educational problem-solving to scientific advancements. As artificial general intelligence (AGI) progresses, integrating large language models (LLMs) with mathematical reasoning tasks is becoming increasingl…

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2025

A Survey on Proactive Defense Strategies Against Misinformation in Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) across critical domains has amplified the societal risks posed by algorithmically generated misinformation. Unlike traditional false content, LLM-generated misinformation can be self-reinforcing, highly plausible, and capable of rapid propaga…

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2025

Don't Just Chase “Highlighted Tokens” in MLLMs: Revisiting Visual Holistic Context Retention

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite their powerful capabilities, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) suffer from considerable computational overhead due to their reliance on massive visual tokens. Recent studies have explored token pruning to alleviate this problem, which typically uses text-vision cross-attention or [CLS…

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2025

EssayJudge: A Multi-Granular Benchmark for Assessing Automated Essay Scoring Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in educational assessment by providing scalable and consistent evaluations of writing tasks. However, traditional AES systems face three major challenges: (i) reliance on handcrafted features that limit generalizability, (ii) difficulty in capturing…

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2025

Exploring Response Uncertainty in MLLMs: An Empirical Evaluation under Misleading Scenarios

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on tasks ranging from visual question answering to video understanding. However, existing studies have concentrated mainly on visual–textual misalignment, leaving largely unexplored the MLLMs’ ability to pre

2025

LLM Agents for Education: Advances and Applications

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are transforming education by automating complex pedagogical tasks and enhancing both teaching and learning processes. In this survey, we present a systematic review of recent advances in applying LLM agents to address key challenges in educational settings, such as

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2025

Look Twice Before You Answer: Memory-Space Visual Retracing for Hallucination Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models

ICML 2025poster

Despite their impressive capabilities, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are prone to hallucinations, i.e., the generated content that is nonsensical or unfaithful to input sources. Unlike in LLMs, hallucinations in MLLMs often stem from the sensitivity of text decoder to visual tokens, leadi…

2025

MMUnlearner: Reformulating Multimodal Machine Unlearning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Recent progress in Machine Unlearning (MU) has introduced solutions for the selective removal of private or sensitive information encoded within deep neural networks. Nonetheless, MU for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains in its nascent phase. Therefore, we propose to **reformulate the…

2025

Mitigating Modality Prior-Induced Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models via Deciphering Attention Causality

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a central focus in both industry and academia, but often suffer from biases introduced by visual and language priors, which can lead to multimodal hallucination. These biases arise from the visual encoder and the Large Language Model (LLM) bac…

2025

OneForecast: A Universal Framework for Global and Regional Weather Forecasting

ICML 2025poster

Accurate weather forecasts are important for disaster prevention, agricultural planning, etc. Traditional numerical weather prediction (NWP) methods offer physically interpretable high-accuracy predictions but are computationally expensive and fail to fully leverage rapidly growing historical data.…

2025

PhysicsArena: The First Multimodal Physics Reasoning Benchmark Exploring Variable, Process, and Solution Dimensions

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in diverse reasoning tasks, yet their application to complex physics reasoning remains underexplored. Physics reasoning presents unique challenges, requiring grounding in physical conditions and the interpretation of

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2025

Pierce the Mists, Greet the Sky: Decipher Knowledge Overshadowing via Knowledge Circuit Analysis

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their remarkable capabilities, are hampered by hallucinations. A particularly challenging variant, knowledge overshadowing, occurs when one piece of activated knowledge inadvertently masks another relevant piece, leading to erroneous outputs even with high-quali

2025

Position: LLMs Can be Good Tutors in English Education

EMNLP 2025

While recent efforts have begun integrating large language models (LLMs) into English education, they often rely on traditional approaches to learning tasks without fully embracing educational methodologies, thus lacking adaptability to language learning. To address this gap, we argue that **LLMs ha

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2025

RTV-Bench: Benchmarking MLLM Continuous Perception, Understanding and Reasoning through Real-Time Video

NeurIPS 2025poster

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly excel at perception,understanding, and reasoning. However, current benchmarks inadequately evaluate their ability to perform these tasks continuously in dynamic, real-world environments. To bridge this gap, we introduce RT V-Bench, a fine-grained…

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2025

RealRAG: Retrieval-augmented Realistic Image Generation via Self-reflective Contrastive Learning

ICML 2025poster

Recent text-to-image generative models, e.g., Stable Diffusion V3 and Flux, have achieved notable progress. However, these models are strongly restricted to their limited knowledge, a.k.a., their own fixed parameters, that are trained with closed datasets. This leads to significant hallucinations or…

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2025

Reefknot: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Relation Hallucination Evaluation, Analysis and Mitigation in Multimodal Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Hallucination issues continue to affect multimodal large language models (MLLMs), with existing research mainly addressing object-level or attribute-level hallucinations, neglecting the more complex relation hallucinations that require advanced reasoning. Current benchmarks for relation hallucinatio…

2025

SafeEraser: Enhancing Safety in Multimodal Large Language Models through Multimodal Machine Unlearning

ACL 2025finding

As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) develop, their potential security issues have become increasingly prominent. **Machine Unlearning (MU)**, as an effective strategy for forgetting specific knowledge in training data, has been widely used in privacy protection. However, *MU for safety in ML…

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2025

Unlocking Speech Instruction Data Potential with Query Rewriting

ACL 2025finding

End-to-end Large Speech Language Models (**LSLMs**) demonstrate strong potential in response latency and speech comprehension capabilities, showcasing general intelligence across speech understanding tasks. However, the ability to follow speech instructions has not been fully realized due to the lac…

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2025

UrbanVLP: Multi-Granularity Vision-Language Pretraining for Urban Socioeconomic Indicator Prediction

AAAI 2025technical

Urban socioeconomic indicator prediction aims to infer various metrics related to sustainable development in diverse urban landscapes using data-driven methods. However, prevalent pretrained models, particularly those reliant on satellite imagery, face dual challenges. Firstly, concentrating solely…

2025

VLA-Mark: A cross modal watermark for large vision-language alignment models

EMNLP 2025

Vision-language models demand watermarking solutions that protect intellectual property without compromising multimodal coherence. Existing text watermarking methods disrupt visual-textual alignment through biased token selection and static strategies, leaving semantic-critical concepts vulnerable.

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2024

FastMem: Fast Memorization of Prompt Improves Context Awareness of Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) excel in generating coherent text, but they often struggle with context awareness, leading to inaccuracies in tasks requiring faithful adherence to provided information. We introduce FastMem, a novel method designed to enhance instruction fine-tuned LLMs’ context awarene…

2024

MMNeuron: Discovering Neuron-Level Domain-Specific Interpretation in Multimodal Large Language Model

EMNLP 2024main

Projecting visual features into word embedding space has become a significant fusion strategy adopted by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, its internal mechanisms have yet to be explored. Inspired by multilingual research, we identify domain-specific neurons in multimodal large lang…