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2026
VizRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hypergraph Visualization
Yanbin Wei | Yang Chen | Renling Gan | Ziru Liu | Xinyu Fu | Chun Kang | Ning Lu | Rui Liu | Yu Zhang | James Kwok
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Yanbin Wei | Yang Chen | Renling Gan | Ziru Liu | Xinyu Fu | Chun Kang | Ning Lu | Rui Liu | Yu Zhang | James Kwok
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Hypergraph-based RAG systems surpass traditional graph-based approaches by organizing complex n-ary atomic facts among entities, rather than relying solely on binary relationships. Despite the advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with enhanced visual capabilities, current hypergraph-based RAG frameworks predominantly restrict knowledge retrieval and reconstruction to a unimodal, text-centric paradigm. This limitation prevents them from fully leveraging the powerful visual perception capabilities of modern MLLMs. To address this gap, we systematically explore the integration of hypergraph awareness in RAG systems through visual cues. By incorporating visual representations of hypergraphs into the RAG pipeline, we introduce VizRAG, the first RAG system to support visual hypergraph structure awareness. Experimental results demonstrate that VizRAG significantly outperforms strong baselines, validating the promising potential of hypergraph visualization as a novel approach for RAG systems.
SAP: State-Guided Data Synthesis with Argument Provenance for Multi-Turn Tool Use
Zichen Tian | Jinpeng Chen | Cheng Gong | Suiyun Zhang | Rui Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Zichen Tian | Jinpeng Chen | Cheng Gong | Suiyun Zhang | Rui Liu
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
High-quality multi-turn tool-use data is essential for training agentic models, yet existing data synthesis methods often underrepresent the argument-level dependencies that are critical to long-horizon tool use. As a result, even when a model selects the correct tool, task execution may still fail because the model fills tool arguments with fabricated, stale, or weakly grounded values. To address this problem, we propose **State-Guided Data Synthesis with Argument Provenance (SAP)**. SAP combines state guidance, tool-argument provenance constraints, and turn-level validation to efficiently construct tool-use trajectories with long-range dependencies and high accuracy. Using data generated by SAP, we build SAP-4B, which is highly competitive even when compared with much larger models across multiple benchmarks. Source code, synthesized data, and trained weights are available at https://github.com/Zichen1024/SAP.
OmniInteract: Benchmarking Real-World Streaming Interaction for Real-Time Omnimodal Assistants
Xudong Lu | Xueying Li | Annan Wang | Yang Bo | Jinpeng Chen | Zengliang Li | Nianzu Yang | Rui Liu | Xue Yang | Jingwen Hou | Hongsheng Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xudong Lu | Xueying Li | Annan Wang | Yang Bo | Jinpeng Chen | Zengliang Li | Nianzu Yang | Rui Liu | Xue Yang | Jingwen Hou | Hongsheng Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
We introduce OmniInteract, a streaming benchmark for real-time omnimodal large language models evaluated through native online inference over audio-visual streams. Unlike offline video understanding or text-prompted streaming QA, OmniInteract preserves the original audio-visual stream and requires models to process it online, without access to future content. User queries and ambient sounds are embedded in the audio track, requiring models to detect multimodal triggers, decide when to respond, and answer while the stream unfolds. OmniInteract contains 250 videos with 1,430 temporally grounded response slots: 1,062 1Q1A slots across real-time, proactive, and nested scenarios, and 368 1QnA slots for continuous task monitoring and step guidance. Each slot includes a trigger, response window, and target answer. We evaluate response correctness, timing, invalid outputs, interruption handling, and context continuity using Interaction-Aware Quality-Timeliness F1, Interruption Diagnostic Suite, and Nested Chain Completion Score. Experiments show that current models remain weak in streaming interaction, with the best overall IA-QTF1 reaching only 0.368 and the best 1QnA IA-QTF1 only 0.052. Further study on mathematical reasoning in full-duplex settings shows that offline capability does not necessarily transfer to online interaction. Code and datasets will be made publicly accessible at https://github.com/Lucky-Lance/OmniInteract.
UNISON: A Unified Sound Generation and Editing Framework via Deep LLM Fusion
Zhaoqing Li | Haoning Xu | Jingran Su | Yaofang Liu | Zhefan Rao | Huimeng Wang | Jiajun Deng | Tianzi Wang | Zengrui Jin | Rui Liu | Haoxuan Che | Xunying Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Zhaoqing Li | Haoning Xu | Jingran Su | Yaofang Liu | Zhefan Rao | Huimeng Wang | Jiajun Deng | Tianzi Wang | Zengrui Jin | Rui Liu | Haoxuan Che | Xunying Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
We present UNISON, a latent flow-matching framework that unifies speech generation, sound generation, and audio editing within a single model. A single model handles text-to-audio, text-to-speech, zero-shot speaker cloning, mixed speech-and-sound generation, scene-level audio editing, speech-in-scene editing, and timed audio composition, all of which share a single set of weights. Our architecture features two core designs: (1) Layer-wise deep LLM fusion, which injects hidden states from uniformly sampled layers of a frozen MLLM into corresponding MM-DiT blocks via learned projections, providing depth-varying semantic conditioning. This configuration achieves better T2A FD and CLAP than a persistent penultimate-layer conditioning baseline; and (2) a unified multi-task architecture where task identity is encoded solely by a channel-wise mask and source audio is provided through VAE-encoded channel concatenation. Training is stabilized by an online GPU-side multi-task data synthesis pipeline with task-homogeneous batching and a two-stage curriculum. With 621M–732M trainable generative parameters, UNISON achieves competitive results across the evaluated domains. Its trainable generative backbone uses 1.8–4.9x fewer parameters than the closest unified systems considered, while deployment additionally requires a frozen 7B text encoder. Audio samples and source code are publicly available.
HyperGVL: Benchmarking and Improving Large Vision-Language Models in Hypergraph Understanding and Reasoning
Yanbin Wei | Chun Kang | Siwei Li | Haoxuan Che | Yang Chen | Hua Liu | Jian Liu | Zhuang Liu | Can Ouyang | Fei Xing | Lei Sha | Rui Liu | Yu Zhang | James Kwok
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yanbin Wei | Chun Kang | Siwei Li | Haoxuan Che | Yang Chen | Hua Liu | Jian Liu | Zhuang Liu | Can Ouyang | Fei Xing | Lei Sha | Rui Liu | Yu Zhang | James Kwok
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) consistently require new arenas to guide their expanding boundaries, yet their capabilities with hypergraphs remain unexplored. In the real world, hypergraphs have significant practical applications in areas such as life sciences and social communities. Recent advancements in LVLMs have shown promise in understanding complex topologies, yet there remains a lack of a benchmark to delineate the capabilities of LVLMs with hypergraphs, leaving the boundaries of their abilities unclear. To fill this gap, in this paper, we introduce HyperGVL, the first benchmark to evaluate the proficiency of LVLMs in hypergraph understanding and reasoning. HyperGVL provides a comprehensive assessment of 12 advanced LVLMs across 84,000 vision-language question-answering (QA) samples spanning 12 tasks, ranging from basic component counting to complex NP-hard problem reasoning. The involved hypergraphs contain multiscale synthetic structures and real-world citation and protein networks. Moreover, we examine the effects of 12 textual and visual hypergraph representations and introduce a generalizable router WiseHyGR that improves LVLMs in hypergraph via learning adaptive representations. We believe that this work is a step forward in connecting hypergraphs with LVLMs.
MathCanvas: Intrinsic Visual Chain-of-Thought for Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning
Weikang Shi | Aldrich Yu | Rongyao Fang | Houxing Ren | Ke Wang | Aojun Zhou | Changyao Tian | Xinyu Fu | Yuxuan Hu | Zimu Lu | Linjiang Huang | Si Liu | Rui Liu | Hongsheng Li
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Weikang Shi | Aldrich Yu | Rongyao Fang | Houxing Ren | Ke Wang | Aojun Zhou | Changyao Tian | Xinyu Fu | Yuxuan Hu | Zimu Lu | Linjiang Huang | Si Liu | Rui Liu | Hongsheng Li
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled in textual reasoning, they struggle with mathematical domains like geometry that intrinsically rely on visual aids. Existing approaches to Visual Chain-of-Thought (VCoT) are often limited by rigid external tools or fail to generate the high-fidelity, strategically-timed diagrams necessary for complex problem-solving. To bridge this gap, we introduce MathCanvas, a comprehensive framework designed to endow unified Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with intrinsic VCoT capabilities for mathematics. Our approach consists of two phases. First, a Visual Manipulation stage pre-trains the model on a novel 15.2M-pair corpus, comprising 10M caption-to-diagram pairs (MathCanvas-Imagen) and 5.2M step-by-step editing trajectories (MathCanvas-Edit), to master diagram generation and editing. Second, a Strategic Visual-Aided Reasoning stage fine-tunes the model on MathCanvas-Instruct, a new 219K-example dataset of interleaved visual-textual reasoning paths, teaching it when and how to leverage visual aids. To facilitate rigorous evaluation, we introduce MathCanvas-Bench, a challenging benchmark with 3K problems that require models to produce interleaved visual-textual solutions. Our model, BAGEL-Canvas, trained under this framework, achieves an 86% relative improvement over strong LMM baselines on MathCanvas-Bench, demonstrating excellent generalization to other public math benchmarks. Our work provides a complete toolkit—framework, datasets, and benchmark—to unlock complex, human-like visual reasoning in LMMs.
2025
LM-Searcher: Cross-domain Neural Architecture Search with LLMs via Unified Numerical Encoding
Yuxuan Hu | Jihao Liu | Ke Wang | Jinliang Zheng | Weikang Shi | Manyuan Zhang | Qi Dou | Rui Liu | Aojun Zhou | Hongsheng Li
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Yuxuan Hu | Jihao Liu | Ke Wang | Jinliang Zheng | Weikang Shi | Manyuan Zhang | Qi Dou | Rui Liu | Aojun Zhou | Hongsheng Li
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new avenues for solving complex optimization problems, including Neural Architecture Search (NAS). However, existing LLM-driven NAS approaches rely heavily on prompt engineering and domain-specific tuning, limiting their practicality and scalability across diverse tasks. In this work, we propose LM-Searcher, a novel framework that leverages LLMs for cross-domain neural architecture optimization without the need for extensive domain-specific adaptation. Central to our approach is NCode, a universal numerical string representation for neural architectures, which enables cross-domain architecture encoding and search. We also reformulate the NAS problem as a ranking task, training LLMs to select high-performing architectures from candidate pools using instruction-tuning samples derived from a novel pruning-based subspace sampling strategy. Our curated dataset, encompassing a wide range of architecture-performance pairs, encourages robust and transferable learning. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that LM-Searcher achieves competitive performance in both in-domain (e.g., CNNs for image classification) and out-of-domain (e.g., LoRA configurations for segmentation and generation) tasks, establishing a new paradigm for flexible and generalizable LLM-based architecture search.
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- Hongsheng Li 3
- Haoxuan Che 2
- Jinpeng Chen 2
- Yang Chen 2
- Xinyu Fu 2
- Yuxuan Hu 2
- Chun Kang 2
- James Kwok 2
- Weikang Shi 2
- Ke Wang 2
- Yanbin Wei 2
- Yu Zhang 2
- Aojun Zhou 2
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- Renling Gan 1
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- Linjiang Huang 1
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- Siwei Li 1
- Xueying Li 1
- Zengliang Li 1
- Zhaoqing Li 1
- Hua Liu 1
- Jian Liu 1
- Jihao Liu 1
- Si Liu 1
- Xunying Liu 1
- Yaofang Liu 1
- Zhuang Liu 1
- Ziru Liu 1
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- Xudong Lu 1
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- Can Ouyang 1
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- Houxing Ren 1
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- Annan Wang 1
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