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Yifan Li

30 accepted papers

2026

Analyzing and Mitigating Object Hallucination: A Training Bias Perspective

AAAI 2026technical

As scaling up training data has significantly improved the general multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), they still suffer from the hallucination issue, generating text that is inconsistent with the visual input. This phenomenon motivates us to systematically investigate t

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2026

GOCM: Single-Step Graph Outlier Synthesis via Origin Consistency Model

ICML 2026poster

Supervised Graph Outlier Detection has long been constrained by severe class imbalance, and although recent diffusion-based augmentation methods have improved sample quality, their practical utility is hindered by the high computational costs of multi-step iterative sampling and the stochasticity of…

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2026

GThinker: Towards General Multimodal Reasoning via Cue-Guided Rethinking

CVPR 2026

Despite recent advances in multimodal reasoning, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) still struggle on complex tasks where initial visual perceptions can be misleading. This performance gap stems from a critical reasoning flaw we term Visual Inertia: while MLLMs excel at iterative reflection in

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2026

Harnessing Spectrum Video for Subject-Level Few-Shot and Cross-Montage EEG Generalization

ICML 2026poster

Existing EEG models are limited by electrode heterogeneity and rigid "channel-first" architectures that treat sensors as independent features. We propose Brain Signal Rendering (BSR), which reinterprets EEG as a physical projection of neural activity and transforms raw signals into geometry-aware Sp…

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2026

Improving Vision-language Models with Perception-centric Process Reward Models

CVPR 2026

Recent advancements in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) have significantly improved the complex reasoning ability of vision-language models (VLMs). However, its outcome-level supervision is too coarse to diagnose and correct errors within the reasoning chain. To this end, we pro

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2026

LogicCat: A Chain-of-Thought Text-to-SQL Benchmark for Complex Reasoning

AAAI 2026technical

Text-to-SQL is a critical task in natural language processing that aims to transform natural language questions into accurate and executable SQL queries. In real-world scenarios, these reasoning tasks are often accompanied by complex mathematical computations, domain knowledge, and hypothetical reas

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2026

Probability-Entropy Calibration: An Elastic Indicator for Adaptive Fine-tuning

ICML 2026poster

Token-level reweighting is a simple yet effective mechanism for controlling supervised fine-tuning, but common indicators are largely one-dimensional: the ground-truth probability reflects downstream alignment, while token entropy reflects intrinsic uncertainty induced by the pre-training prior. Ign…

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2026

RECODE: A Benchmark for Research Code DEvelopment with Interactive Human Feedback

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) show the promise in supporting scientific research implementation, yet their ability to generate correct and executable code remains limited. Existing works largely adopt one-shot settings, ignoring the iterative and feedback-driven nature of realistic workflows of scien…

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2026

The Trojan Knowledge: Bypassing Commercial LLM Guardrails via Harmless Prompt Weaving and Adaptive Tree Search

ICML 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails. Existing approaches overwhelmingly operate within the prompt-optimization paradigm; the resulting prompts typically retain malicious semantic signals that modern guardrails are primed to detect. In con…

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2026

Towards Generalized Representations for Low-Light Understanding: When Signal Constancy Meets Semantic Enrichment

CVPR 2026

Low-light degradation hampers machine understanding at night. Existing methods either overfit labeled data (paired supervision) or specific distributions (unpaired supervision), resulting in poor generalization under unseen degradations. In this paper, we propose UniPrior, a unified prior-based low-

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2026

Unleashing Perception-Time Scaling to Multimodal Reasoning Models

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in inference-time scaling, particularly those leveraging reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, have substantially enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Inspired by this success, similar strategies have been applied to multimodal reason…

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2025

Do LLMs Really Forget? Evaluating Unlearning with Knowledge Correlation and Confidence Awareness

NeurIPS 2025poster

Machine unlearning techniques aim to mitigate unintended memorization in large language models (LLMs). However, existing approaches predominantly focus on the explicit removal of isolated facts, often overlooking latent inferential dependencies and the non-deterministic nature of knowledge within LL…

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2025

IndustryEQA: Pushing the Frontiers of Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Scenarios

NeurIPS 2025poster

Existing Embodied Question Answering (EQA) benchmarks primarily focus on household environments, often overlooking safety-critical aspects and reasoning processes pertinent to industrial settings. This drawback limits the evaluation of agent readiness for real-world industrial applications. To bridg…

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2025

Seeing is Believing? Mitigating OCR Hallucinations in Multimodal Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enhanced document understanding by integrating textual and visual information. However, existing models exhibit incompleteness within their paradigm in real-world scenarios, particularly under visual degradation (e.g., blur, occlus…

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2025

Task-Aware Resolution Optimization for Visual Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Real-world vision-language applications demand varying levels of perceptual granularity. However, most existing visual large language models (VLLMs), such as LLaVA, pre-assume a fixed resolution for downstream tasks, which leads to subpar performance. To address this problem, we first conduct a comp

2025

Tree-of-Code: A Self-Growing Tree Framework for End-to-End Code Generation and Execution in Complex Tasks

ACL 2025finding

Solving complex reasoning tasks is a key real-world application of agents. Thanks to the pretraining of Large Language Models (LLMs) on code data, recent approaches like CodeAct successfully use code as LLM agents’ action, achieving good results. However, CodeAct greedily generates the next action’s…

2025

Underestimated Privacy Risks for Minority Populations in Large Language Model Unlearning

ICML 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) embed sensitive, human-generated data, prompting the need for unlearning methods. Although certified unlearning offers strong privacy guarantees, its restrictive assumptions make it unsuitable for LLMs, giving rise to various heuristic approaches typically assessed throu…

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2025

ViT-Split: Unleashing the Power of Vision Foundation Models via Efficient Splitting Heads

ICCV 2025poster

Vision foundation models (VFMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of downstream tasks. While several VFM adapters have shown promising results by leveraging the prior knowledge of VFMs, we identify two inefficiencies in these approaches. First, the interaction between conv…

2024

Adaptive Motion Scaling for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery Based on Hybrid Offline Reinforcement Learning and Damping Control

ICRA 2024poster

Motion scaling is essential to empower users to conduct precise manipulation during teleoperation for robot-assisted microsurgery (RAMS). A constant, small motion scaling ratio can enhance the precision of teleoperation but hinder the operator from quickly reaching distant targets. The concept of se…

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2024

Glue pizza and eat rocks - Exploiting Vulnerabilities in Retrieval-Augmented Generative Models

EMNLP 2024main

Retrieval-Augmented Generative (RAG) models enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating external knowledge bases, improving their performance in applications like fact-checking and information searching. In this paper, we demonstrate a security threat where adversaries can exploit the openne…

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2024

SEIT: Structural Enhancement for Unsupervised Image Translation in Frequency Domain

AAAI 2024technical

For the task of unsupervised image translation, transforming the image style while preserving its original structure remains challenging. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised image translation method with structural enhancement in frequency domain named SEIT. Specifically, a frequency dynamic a…

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2024

TacShade: A New 3D-printed Soft Optical Tactile Sensor Based on Light, Shadow and Greyscale for Shape Reconstruction

ICRA 2024poster

In this paper, we present the TacShade: a newly designed 3D-printed soft optical tactile sensor. The sensor is developed for shape reconstruction under the inspiration of sketch drawing that uses the density of sketch lines to draw light and shadow, resulting in the creation of a 3D-view effect. Tac…

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2024

Temporal Adaptive RGBT Tracking with Modality Prompt

AAAI 2024technical

RGBT tracking has been widely used in various fields such as robotics, surveillance processing, and autonomous driving. Existing RGBT trackers fully explore the spatial information between the template and the search region and locate the target based on the appearance matching results. However, the…

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2024

Unified Lexical Representation for Interpretable Visual-Language Alignment

NeurIPS 2024poster

Visual-Language Alignment (VLA) has gained a lot of attention since CLIP's groundbreaking work. Although CLIP performs well, the typical direct latent feature alignment lacks clarity in its representation and similarity scores. On the other hand, lexical representation, a vector whose element repr…

2023

DISC: Learning From Noisy Labels via Dynamic Instance-Specific Selection and Correction

CVPR 2023poster

Existing studies indicate that deep neural networks (DNNs) can eventually memorize the label noise. We observe that the memorization strength of DNNs towards each instance is different and can be represented by the confidence value, which becomes larger and larger during the training process. Based…

2023

Diffusion Models for Non-autoregressive Text Generation: A Survey

IJCAI 2023poster

Non-autoregressive (NAR) text generation has attracted much attention in the field of natural language processing, which greatly reduces the inference latency but has to sacrifice the generation accuracy. Recently, diffusion models, a class of latent variable generative models, have been introduced…

2023

Evaluating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Inspired by the superior language abilities of large language models (LLM), large vision-language models (LVLM) have been recently proposed by integrating powerful LLMs for improving the performance on complex multimodal tasks. Despite the promising progress on LVLMs, we find that they suffer from o…

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2020

Enhance feature representation of electroencephalogram for Seizure detection

ICASSP 2020accepted

In the treatment of epilepsy with intracranial electroencephalogram(iEEG), the recognition accuracy is low, and it is difficult to find the correlation between channels because of the large amount of channel numbers and time series data. In order to solve these problems, we propose a novel EEG featu…

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2019

Completely Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Latent Quality Factor from Image Local Structure Representation

ICASSP 2019accepted

Although opinion-unaware (OA) blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is the most difficult task, it is still very attractive because of its great potential for good generalization capability and practical usage. In this paper, a novel OA-BIQA algorithm is proposed. This algorithm is based on the cons…

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