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Yiyang Zhou

28 accepted papers

2026

Agent0-VL: Exploring Self-Evolving Agent for Tool-Integrated Vision-Language Reasoning

ICML 2026oral

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal reasoning tasks; however, their learning remains constrained by the limitations of human-annotated supervision. Recent self-rewarding approaches attempt to overcome this constraint by allowing models to act as their…

Cited by 27SourceScholar
2026

Paper2Figure: A Multi-Agent Collaborative System for Figure Generation Towards Academic Research Paper

CVPR 2026

Automatically generating clear and accurate figures for research papers remains challenging, as it requires semantic understanding, precise structure, and visual aesthetics. Existing approaches struggle to balance fidelity and quality: large language model (LLM) code-based methods (e.g., SVG, Mermai

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Target-Oriented Pretraining Data Selection via Neuron-Activated Graph

ICML 2026poster

Everyday tasks come with a target, and pretraining models around this target is what turns them into experts. In this paper, we study target-oriented language model (LM) pretraining by introducing ***N**euron-**A**ctivated **G**raph Ranking* (NAG-based Ranking), a training-free and interpretable fra…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

When Visualizing is the First Step to Reasoning: MIRA, a Benchmark for Visual Chain-of-Thought

CVPR 2026

We propose MIRA (Multimodal Imagination for Reasoning Assessment), a new benchmark designed to evaluate models in scenarios where generating intermediate visual images is essential for successful reasoning. Unlike traditional Chain-of-thought (CoT) methods that rely solely on text, tasks in MIRA req

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Anyprefer: An Agentic Framework for Preference Data Synthesis

ICLR 2025poster

High-quality preference data is essential for aligning foundation models with human values through preference learning. However, manual annotation of such data is often time-consuming and costly. Recent methods often adopt a self-rewarding approach, where the target model generates and annotates its…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Enhancing Visual-Language Modality Alignment in Large Vision Language Models via Self-Improvement

NAACL 2025findings

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results in visual question-answering and reasoning tasks through vision instruction tuning on specific datasets. However, there remains significant room for improvement in aligning visual and language modalities. Existing methods often de…

2025

Fine-Grained Verifiers: Preference Modeling as Next-token Prediction in Vision-Language Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

The recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and pre-trained vision models have accelerated the development of vision-language large models (VLLMs), enhancing the interaction between visual and linguistic modalities. Despite their notable success across various domains, VLLMs face challen…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2025

GLIMPSE: Do Large Vision-Language Models Truly Think With Videos or Just Glimpse at Them?

EMNLP 2025

Existing video benchmarks often resemble image-based benchmarks, with question types like “What actions does the person perform throughout the video?” or “What color is the woman’s dress in the video?” For these, models can often answer by scanning just a few key frames, without deep temporal reason

2025

Improving Alignment in LVLMs with Debiased Self-Judgment

EMNLP 2025

The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have opened up new opportunities for integrating visual and linguistic modalities. Yet, challenges remain in aligning these modalities effectively, causing issues such as hallucinations, where generated o

2025

MJ-Bench: Is Your Multimodal Reward Model Really a Good Judge for Text-to-Image Generation?

NeurIPS 2025poster

While text-to-image models like GPT-4o-Image and FLUX are rapidly proliferating, they often encounter challenges such as hallucination, bias, and the production of unsafe, low-quality output. To effectively address these issues, it is crucial to align these models with desired behaviors based on fee…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

MJ-Video: Benchmarking and Rewarding Video Generation with Fine-Grained Video Preference

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Recent advancements in video generation have significantly improved the ability to synthesize videos from text instructions. However, existing models still struggle with key challenges such as instruction misalignment, content hallucination, safety concerns, and generation bias. To address these lim…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

MMIE: Massive Multimodal Interleaved Comprehension Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025oral

Interleaved multimodal comprehension and generation, enabling models to produce and interpret both images and text in arbitrary sequences, have become a pivotal area in multimodal learning. Despite significant advancements, the evaluation of this capability remains insufficient. Existing benchmarks…

2025

ReAgent-V: A Reward-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Video Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Video understanding is fundamental to tasks such as action recognition, video reasoning, and robotic control. Early video understanding methods based on large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically adopt a single-pass reasoning paradigm without dynamic feedback, limiting the model’s capacity to se…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Analyzing and Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2024poster

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable abilities in understanding visual information with human languages. However, LVLMs still suffer from object hallucination, which is the problem of generating descriptions that include objects that do not actually exist in the images. This ca…

2024

CARES: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Trustworthiness in Medical Vision Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Artificial intelligence has significantly impacted medical applications, particularly with the advent of Medical Large Vision Language Models (Med-LVLMs), sparking optimism for the future of automated and personalized healthcare. However, the trustworthiness of Med-LVLMs remains unverified, posing s…

2024

Calibrated Self-Rewarding Vision Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made substantial progress by integrating pre-trained large language models (LLMs) and vision models through instruction tuning. Despite these advancements, LVLMs often exhibit the hallucination phenomenon, where generated text responses appear linguistically…

2024

EscIRL: Evolving Self-Contrastive IRL for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving

CoRL 2024poster

While deep neural networks (DNN) and inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) have both been commonly used in autonomous driving to predict trajectories through learning from expert demonstrations, DNN-based methods suffer from data-scarcity, while IRL-based approaches often struggle with generalizabili…

Cited by 2SourcecodeScholar
2024

How Many Unicorns Are in This Image? A Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Vision LLMs

ECCV 2024poster

"This work focuses on benchmarking the capabilities of vision large language models (VLLMs) in visual reasoning. Different from prior studies, we shift our focus from evaluating standard performance to introducing a comprehensive safety evaluation suite Unicorn, covering out-of-distribution (OOD) ge…

2024

VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Current benchmarks for assessing vision-language models (VLMs) often focus on their perception or problem-solving capabilities and neglect other critical aspects such as fairness, multilinguality, or toxicity. Furthermore, they differ in their evaluation procedures and the scope of the evaluation, m…

2023

Center Feature Fusion: Selective Multi-Sensor Fusion of Center-based Objects

ICRA 2023poster

Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point clouds are augmented with camera features, have been the dominant…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2023

DualGenerator: Information Interaction-Based Generative Network for Point Cloud Completion

RA-L 2023

Point cloud completion estimates complete shapes from incomplete point clouds to obtain higher-quality point cloud data. Most existing methods only consider global object features, ignoring spatial and semantic information of adjacent points. They cannot distinguish structural information well betwe

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2022

DetMatch: Two Teachers Are Better than One for Joint 2D and 3D Semi-Supervised Object Detection

ECCV 2022poster

"While numerous 3D detection works leverage the complementary relationship between RGB images and point clouds, developments in the broader framework of semi-supervised object recognition remain uninfluenced by multi-modal fusion. Current methods develop independent pipelines for 2D and 3D semi-supe…

2022

What Matters for 3D Scene Flow Network

ECCV 2022poster

"3D scene flow estimation from point clouds is a low-level 3D motion perception task in computer vision. Flow embedding is a commonly used technique in scene flow estimation, and it encodes the point motion between two consecutive frames. Thus, it is critical for the flow embeddings to capture the c…

2021

A Simple and Efficient Multi-task Network for 3D Object Detection and Road Understanding

IROS 2021poster

Detecting dynamic objects and predicting static road information such as drivable areas and ground heights are crucial for safe autonomous driving. Previous works studied each perception task separately, and lacked a collective quantitative analysis. In this work, we show that it is possible to perf…

Cited by 28SourcecodeScholar
2020

Inferring Spatial Uncertainty in Object Detection

IROS 2020poster

The availability of real-world datasets is the prerequisite for developing object detection methods for autonomous driving. While ambiguity exists in object labels due to error-prone annotation process or sensor observation noises, current object detection datasets only provide deterministic annotat…

Cited by 34SourceScholar
2020

UrbanLoco: A Full Sensor Suite Dataset for Mapping and Localization in Urban Scenes

ICRA 2020poster

Mapping and localization is a critical module of autonomous driving, and significant achievements have been reached in this field. Beyond Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), research in point cloud registration, visual feature matching, and inertia navigation has greatly enhanced the accuracy…

Cited by 160SourceScholar