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Zhou Xiao

7 accepted papers

2026

POINTS-Long: Adaptive Dual-Mode Visual Reasoning in MLLMs

CVPR 2026

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in cross-modal understanding and generation. However, the rapid growth of visual token sequences--especially in long-video and streaming scenarios--poses a major challenge to their scalability and real-world

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2026

StableToken: A Noise-Robust Semantic Speech Tokenizer for Resilient SpeechLLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Prevalent semantic speech tokenizers, designed to capture linguistic content, are surprisingly fragile. We find they are not robust to meaning-irrelevant acoustic perturbations; even at high Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNRs) where speech is perfectly intelligible, their output token sequences can change…

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2026

WeDLM: Reconciling Diffusion Language Models with Standard Causal Attention for Fast Inference

ICML 2026oral

Autoregressive (AR) generation is the standard decoding paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs), but its token-by-token nature limits parallelism at inference time. Diffusion Language Models (DLLMs) offer parallel decoding by recovering multiple masked tokens per step; however, in practice they of…

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2025

POINTS-Reader: Distillation-Free Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Document Conversion

EMNLP 2025

High-quality labeled data is essential for training accurate document conversion models, particularly in domains with complex formats such as tables, formulas, and multi-column text. However, manual annotation is both costly and time-consuming, while automatic labeling using existing models often la

2023

Personality Understanding of Fictional Characters during Book Reading

ACL 2023long

Comprehending characters’ personalities is a crucial aspect of story reading. As readers engage with a story, their understanding of a character evolves based on new events and information; and multiple fine-grained aspects of personalities can be perceived. This leads to a natural problem of situat…

2022

Dual Context-Guided Continuous Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Learning

ACL 2022findings

Prompt-based paradigm has shown its competitive performance in many NLP tasks. However, its success heavily depends on prompt design, and the effectiveness varies upon the model and training data. In this paper, we propose a novel dual context-guided continuous prompt (DCCP) tuning method. To explor…

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2022

RoCBert: Robust Chinese Bert with Multimodal Contrastive Pretraining

ACL 2022long

Large-scale pretrained language models have achieved SOTA results on NLP tasks. However, they have been shown vulnerable to adversarial attacks especially for logographic languages like Chinese. In this work, we propose RoCBert: a pretrained Chinese Bert that is robust to various forms of adversaria…