Yin Zhang
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2026
Vector Calligrapher: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics via Structured Linguistic Supervision
Bo Zhou | Xikang Chen | Yan Gong | Yin Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Bo Zhou | Xikang Chen | Yan Gong | Yin Zhang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Generating SVG-based fonts requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to translate high-level linguistic intent into low-level, topologically constrained symbolic sequences. However, current approaches struggle with two fundamental misalignments: the semantic ambiguity of unstructured natural language for precise geometric control, and the inefficiency of generic text tokenizers, which fragment coordinate-dense SVG XML into excessively long sequences with low information density. In this work, we propose Vector Calligrapher, a system that treats SVG generation as a conditional language modeling task optimized for both semantic grounding and representational efficiency.To bridge the semantic gap, we introduce a structured linguistic supervision Font Description Framework that decomposes typographic style into interpretable linguistic dimensions (e.g., historical lineage, affective metaphors), providing structured supervision aligned with the compositional syntax of SVG. To address the tokenization bottleneck, we design a scalable separated-coordinate strategy that bypasses the vocabulary explosion of flattened tokens while significantly compressing sequence length. Supported by VectorFont, a dataset of over 10 million hierarchically annotated glyphs, our approach improves CLIP score by +23%, reduces geometric error by ≈48%, and boosts generation efficiency by achieving an 18% Command-per-Token (C/T) ratio—a 6× increase in information density over standard baselines. These results demonstrate that combining structured linguistic supervision with efficient symbolic tokenization is essential for reliable, controllable vector graphics synthesis. VectorFont dataset, Code and model weights will be publicly released.
VideoPro: Adaptive Program Reasoning for Long Video Understanding
Chenglin Li | Feng Han | Yikun Wang | Ruilin Li | Shuai Dong | Haowen Hou | Haitao Li | Qianglong Chen | Feng Tao | Jingqi Tong | Yin Zhang | Jiaqi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Chenglin Li | Feng Han | Yikun Wang | Ruilin Li | Shuai Dong | Haowen Hou | Haitao Li | Qianglong Chen | Feng Tao | Jingqi Tong | Yin Zhang | Jiaqi Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Understanding long videos remains challenging due to the sparsity of visual evidence relevant to a given query. Prior work has explored program-based visual grounding, typically relying on executable programs generated by auxiliary large language models. However, when scaling to long videos, existing approaches face several critical limitations: (1) frame-centric vision modules are often insufficient for long video processing; (2) naively applying program-based reasoning to all queries incurs considerable computational overhead; and (3) errors arising from low-confidence predictions and imperfect program execution are difficult to recover from. To address these challenges, we propose VideoPro, a unified framework that enables VideoLLMs to adaptively reason over long videos and refine their predictions through executable programs. VideoPro first performs adaptive reasoning, dynamically determining whether a query can be resolved directly by the native VideoLLM or requires explicit multi-step program reasoning. For complex queries, the model decomposes the task into executable programs that invoke specialized vision modules for precise temporal and semantic grounding. To further improve robustness, VideoPro incorporates a self-refinement mechanism that leverages execution feedback and confidence signals to correct erroneous executions and refine low-confidence reasoning programs. By tightly integrating adaptive reasoning with self-refinement, VideoPro consistently outperforms prior methods across multiple long-video understanding benchmarks, yielding an average 6.7% improvement for Qwen3-VL-8B.