Beyond Accuracy: Evaluating Grounded Visual Evidence in Thinking with Images
Xuzhao Li, Xuchen Li, Renjie Pi, Shiyu Hu, Jian Zhao, Jiahui Gao
EMNLP 2026

Targeted Decoding Intervention for Persona Inconsistency Hallucination Mitigation in Multi-Turn Dialogue
Jie Bao, Yan Xu, Haojie Wu, Yu Gao, Xinyu Cui, Jian Zhao, Yong Liao, Zhen Chen
EMNLP 2026

After the Attacker Leaves: Benchmarking Carryover Attacks on LLM Agents
Zhiyue Xu, Xukai Wang, Zhiyuan Huang, Mingjie Zhan, Jian Zhao, Xu-Yao Zhang
EMNLP 2026

EvoCurr: Self-evolving Curriculum with Behavior Code Generation for Complex Decision-making
Yang Cheng, Weiyu Ma, Zilai Wang, Wenhui Zhu, Tangjie Lv, Yujing Hu, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Yue Deng, Jian Zhao
EMNLP 2026

Synergizing Multi-Turn Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Manipulation
Saijie Hou, Yuan Liu, Zikang Li, Saihui Hou, Jian Zhao, Zhaofeng He
ACM MM 2026

MAMBO-G: Magnitude-Aware Mitigation for Boosted Guidance
Shangwen Zhu, Qianyu Peng, Zhilei Shu, Yuting Hu, Han Zhang, Andy Zheng, Xinyu Cui, Jian Zhao, Ruili Feng, Fan Cheng
ICML 2026

Dual Activation-Weight Sparsity: A Training-Free Framework for Efficient Large Language Model Compression
Luoyang Sun, Guangyan Li, Cheng Deng, Haifeng Zhang, Jian Zhao, Yongqiang Tang, Wensheng Zhang, Jun Wang
ACL 2026

Learning How to Remember: A Meta-Cognitive Management Method for Structured and Transferable Agent Memory
Sirui Liang, Pengfei Cao, Jian Zhao, Wenhao Teng, Xiangwen Liao, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
ACL 2026

Bias-Restrained Prefix Representation Finetuning for Mathematical Reasoning
Sirui Liang, Pengfei Cao, Jian Zhao, Cong Huang, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
AAAI 2026
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LLM-SMAC: Solving Multi-Agent Decision-Making Tasks via LLM Decision Tree Code Generation
Yue DENG, Weiyu Ma, Yuxin Fan, Ruyi Song, Yin Zhang, Haifeng Zhang, Jian Zhao
AAMAS 2026

Sim2Sea: Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer for Maritime Vessel Navigation in Congested Waters
Xinyu Cui, Xuanfa Jin, Xue Yan, Yongcheng Zeng, Luoyang Sun, Wei Siying, Ruizhi Zhang, Jian Zhao, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang
AAMAS 2026

STEMVerse: A Dual-Axis Diagnostic Framework for STEM Reasoning in Large Language Models
Xuzhao Li, Xuchen Li, Jian Zhao, Shiyu Hu
Preprint

MemeMind: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Harmful Meme Detection
Hexiang Gu, Qifan Yu, Yuan Liu, Zikang Li, Saihui Hou, Jian Zhao, Zhaofeng He
Preprint

Learning How to Remember: A Meta-Cognitive Management Method for Structured and Transferable Agent Memory
Sirui Liang, Pengfei Cao, Jian Zhao, Wenhao Teng, Xiangwen Liao, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
Preprint

Training LLMs to Self-Refine via Iterative Preference Optimization
Yongcheng Zeng, Xinyu Cui, Xuanfa Jin, Qirui Mi, Guoqing Liu, Zexu Sun, Mengyue Yang, Dong Li, Weiyu Ma, Ning Yang, Jian Zhao, Jianye HAO, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang
Preprint

LLM-SMAC: Generating Interpretable Multi-Agent Policies through Programmatic Synthesis
Yue Deng, Weiyu Ma, Xiaoxia Cheng, ZiRui Wang, Yujing Hu, Tangjie Lv, Changjie Fan, Yin Zhang, Jian Zhao
Preprint

MAMBO-G: Magnitude-Aware Mitigation for Boosted Guidance
Shangwen Zhu, Qianyu Peng, Zhilei Shu, Yuting Hu, Han Zhang, Andy Zheng, Xinyu Cui, Jian Zhao, Ruili Feng, Fan Cheng
Preprint

Pisces: Video Generation over Events via Time Interval Encoding
Zhilei Shu, Shangwen Zhu, Bo Ye, Andy Zheng, Qianyu Peng, Xinyu Cui, Xiangrui Ke, Tingting Liao, Zipeng Ji, Shucheng Huang, Yiming Li, Xiang Li, Fan Cheng, Jian Zhao, Zheng-Jun Zha
Preprint

PromptManual: Beyond Black-Box Refinement with a Taxonomy-Driven Framework for Interpretable T2I Prompt Optimization
Xingxi Yin, Yan Gao, Yicheng Li, FengTao, Shuxin Zheng, Jian Zhao, Cong Huang, Yue Deng, Yin Zhang
Preprint

\pi-StepNFT: Wider Space Needs Finer Steps in Online RL for Flow-based VLAs
Siting Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Minnan Pei, Xinyu Cui, Cheng Deng, Zheng Zhu, Jian Zhao, Guan Huang, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang
Preprint

ToMAgent: Enhancing ToM-based Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Interactions via Bi-Level Self-Play
Xuanfa Jin, Xinyu Cui, Zhijian Ma, Xue Yan, Jian Zhao, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang
Preprint

Information-Manifold Proximal Policy Optimization
Yongcheng Zeng, Xinyu Cui, Yan Song, Guoqing Liu, Hengtong Lu, Kaike Zhang, Chen Wei, Jian Zhao, Haifeng Zhang, Jun Wang
Preprint