Yan Shu
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2026
Scaling is Not All You Need: Clinical-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Makes Parameter-Efficient Clinical Reasoning
Chi Liu | Yan Shu | Mengzhuo Chen | Hongming Piao | Zhijian Duan | Derek Li | Bryan Dai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Chi Liu | Yan Shu | Mengzhuo Chen | Hongming Piao | Zhijian Duan | Derek Li | Bryan Dai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
While large language models show promise in medical applications, achieving expert-level clinical reasoning efficiently remains challenging due to the need for massive amounts of manually labeled data and large-scale models. To address this challenge, we propose Clinical-Oriented Reinforcement Learning (CORL), the first fully open-source, end-to-end reinforcement learning training pipeline in the clinical reasoning domain, incorporating a Reasoning-Oriented Data Strategy (RODS) based on topological synthesis, CoT cold-start, and two-stage reinforcement learning. Through CORL, we trained the Fleming-R1 series of models. Among them, Fleming-R1-7B significantly outperforms models of comparable size while approaching or even surpassing certain 32B and 72B models. Fleming-R1-32B achieves near-parity with GPT-4o and outperforms the strongest open-source alternatives up to 671B in MedXpertQA. This demonstrates that in clinical reasoning field, a meticulously designed training pipeline holds greater importance than scaling model size alone. Data and Models are available at https://github.com/UbiquantAI/Fleming-R1 and https://huggingface.co/collections/IQuestLab/fleming.
Task-Oriented Moment Localization for Long Video Understanding with Near-Second Coverage
Xiangrui Liu | Minghao Qin | Yan Shu | Zhengyang Liang | Yang Tian | Chen Jason Zhang | Bo Zhao | Zheng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xiangrui Liu | Minghao Qin | Yan Shu | Zhengyang Liang | Yang Tian | Chen Jason Zhang | Bo Zhao | Zheng Liu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Long-video understanding (LVU) is increasingly framed as an agentic process that iteratively localizes task-critical moments before perception and reasoning. Moment localization is therefore a key bottleneck: under long-video context constraints, sparse sampling can easily miss decisive evidence, while similarity-based retrieval often returns semantically related but task-irrelevant clips. We present EviScan, an evidence-seeking moment localization model built on an MLLM, designed for task-oriented localization and near-second temporal scanning on hour-long videos. To learn task-oriented localization, we construct ToMo-Pile, a training set that pairs temporal intervals with rationale traces explaining why the interval resolves the task. To make near-second scanning feasible on long videos, EviScan uses DualKV Prefill for memory-efficient streaming inference, and Progressive Localization to first narrow down candidate intervals and then refine boundaries using high-resolution evidence. We further introduce ToMo-Bench, a benchmark for task-oriented moment localization across diverse long-video scenarios. EviScan consistently outperforms specialized localizers and general-purpose MLLMs on both ToMo-Bench and standard temporal grounding benchmarks. When used as a plug-in localization module, it yields substantial gains on downstream long-video understanding benchmarks (MLVU and LongVideoBench), and these gains are larger than those brought by other moment-localization methods. We will release the model, dataset, benchmark, and code.
Hybrid Open-Ended Tri-Evolution Makes Better Deep Researcher
Hongming Piao | Chi Liu | Mengzhuo Chen | Yan Shu | Xidong Wang | Derek Li | Ying Wei | Bryan Dai
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Hongming Piao | Chi Liu | Mengzhuo Chen | Yan Shu | Xidong Wang | Derek Li | Ying Wei | Bryan Dai
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Deep research and agent evolution serve as de-facto tasks for AI agents in real-world applications toward artificial general intelligence. The former enables autonomous retrieval and integration of information in open-ended environments to tackle open-ended research tasks, yet it is constrained by the static parametric deep research capabilities of agent systems. The latter allows agents to autonomously interact with the environment to gain experiences that evolve model capabilities. However, its effectiveness has been widely validated only on verifiable tasks with standard answers, leaving a gap with open-ended research tasks. To bridge these two critical tasks, we propose the Hybrid Open-Ended Tri-Evolution (HOTE) framework, which leverages hybrid-mode reinforcement learning to facilitate the collaborative evolution of a proposer, solver and judge based on web-scale knowledge, moving toward autonomous evolving agents in open-ended tasks and environments. Extensive experiments on three long-form deep research benchmarks demonstrate that the 8B model trained via HOTE surpasses the strongest static open 8-32B models as well as those trained by state-of-the-art deep research training methods with less time overhead, and further verify that the evolution of all three modules in HOTE is indispensable.
UniReason-Med: A Shared Grounded Reasoning Interface for 2D-to-3D Transfer in Medical VQA
Mengzhuo Chen | Yan Shu | Chi Liu | Hongming Piao | Xidong Wang | Derek Li | Bryan Dai
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Mengzhuo Chen | Yan Shu | Chi Liu | Hongming Piao | Xidong Wang | Derek Li | Bryan Dai
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
We study whether grounded reasoning supervision from abundant 2D medical images can improve 3D medical VQA when both input types are aligned through a common reasoning interface. We introduce UniReason-Med, a single-checkpoint framework that processes either a 2D image or a slice-serialized 3D volume at inference time, generating interleaved textual reasoning and localized visual evidence through shared box syntax, region-token injection, and a common grounded reasoning policy. To train this interface, we construct UniMed-CoT, a 220K instruction-tuning dataset with interleaved textual reasoning and grounded visual evidence, including 170K 2D and 50K 3D samples. Through supervised fine-tuning followed by outcome-level reinforcement learning, UniReason-Med learns to generate grounded reasoning traces without IoU/Dice-based localization rewards during RL. Data-mixture and component ablations show that joint 2D+3D grounded supervision substantially improves 3D reasoning over 3D-only training, while grounding and region-token injection consistently benefit both 2D and 3D tasks. These results suggest that a shared grounded reasoning interface can transfer reasoning structure from 2D images to slice-serialized volumetric medical understanding.