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Yishuo Cai

7 accepted papers

2026

Conan: Progressive Learning to Reason Like a Detective over Multi-Scale Visual Evidence

CVPR 2026

Video reasoning, which requires multi-step deduction across frames, remains a major challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods enhance reasoning capabilities, they often rely on text-only chains that yield ungrounded or hallucinated conclu

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2026

From Player to Master: Enhancing Test-Time Learning of LLM Agents via Reinforcement Learning over Memory

ICML 2026poster

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in long-running settings where improving through experience at test time becomes important. A common approach is to update an explicit memory after each interaction to guide future decisions. However, most existing methods rely on hand-desi…

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2025

MHALO: Evaluating MLLMs as Fine-grained Hallucination Detectors

ACL 2025finding

Hallucination remains a critical challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), undermining their reliability in real-world applications. While fine-grained hallucination detection (FHD) holds promise for enhancing high-quality vision-language data construction and model alignment through e…

2025

RICO: Improving Accuracy and Completeness in Image Recaptioning via Visual Reconstruction

EMNLP 2025

Image recaptioning is widely used to generate training datasets with enhanced quality for various multimodal tasks. Existing recaptioning methods typically rely on powerful multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to enhance textual descriptions, but often suffer from inaccuracies due to hallucinati

2024

Course-Correction: Safety Alignment Using Synthetic Preferences

EMNLP 2024industry

The risk of harmful contents generated by large language models (LLMs) becomes a critical concern. This paper systematically evaluates and enhances LLMs’ capability to perform course-correction, , the model can steer away from generating harmful content autonomously. First, we introduce the C2-Eval…

2024

Nearest is Not Dearest: Towards Practical Defense against Quantization-conditioned Backdoor Attacks

CVPR 2024poster

Model quantization is widely used to compress and accelerate deep neural networks. However recent studies have revealed the feasibility of weaponizing model quantization via implanting quantization-conditioned backdoors (QCBs). These special backdoors stay dormant on released full-precision models b…

2024

Purifying Quantization-conditioned Backdoors via Layer-wise Activation Correction with Distribution Approximation

ICML 2024poster

Model quantization is a compression technique that converts a full-precision model to a more compact low-precision version for better storage. Despite the great success of quantization, recent studies revealed the feasibility of malicious exploiting model quantization via implanting quantization-con…

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