Zhiyuan Zhao
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Do MLLMs Really See It: Reinforcing Visual Attention in Multimodal LLMs
Siqu Ou | Tianrui Wan | Zhiyuan Zhao | Junyu Gao | Xuelong Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Siqu Ou | Tianrui Wan | Zhiyuan Zhao | Junyu Gao | Xuelong Li
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
While chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has substantially improved multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, existing approaches largely rely on long textual reasoning trajectories and provide limited mechanisms for learning stable visual attention policies. Our analysis shows that current MLLMs exhibit weak visual focus: early-stage visual misalignment is rarely corrected during subsequent reasoning, leading to error propagation and failed inferences. We argue that this limitation stems from inadequate credit assignment for visual attention during training. To address this issue, we propose SAYO, a visual reasoning model trained with a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that introduces a region-level visual attention–based reward. This reward explicitly aligns optimization signals with visually grounded reasoning steps, enabling the model to learn more reliable attention behaviors. Extensive experiments across multiple multimodal benchmarks demonstrate that SAYO consistently improves performance on diverse reasoning and perception tasks.
Beyond Adapter Expansion: Packing Multiple Tasks into Spare LoRA Capacity
Shuangjie Fan | Chengxiang Huang | Zhiyuan Zhao | Piotr Koniusz | Junyu Gao | Di Hu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Shuangjie Fan | Chengxiang Huang | Zhiyuan Zhao | Piotr Koniusz | Junyu Gao | Di Hu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Many continual learning methods for LLMs mitigate forgetting by expanding task-specific modules, yet this leads to memory costs that grow with the number of tasks. We reveal that such expansion may be unnecessary: a single LoRA adapter possesses substantial per-task parameter redundancy, where retaining only 3–10% of LoRA-B entries suffices to recover over 95% of task accuracy. Moreover, the per-parameter update magnitudes follow a heavy-tailed distribution whose geometric knee point naturally separates critical parameters from dispensable ones. Building on this insight, we propose Continual Adaptation via Subspace Trimming (CAST), which adaptively allocates a compact task-specific subspace within a shared LoRA adapter using the knee point criterion, freezes previously assigned parameters to eliminate cross-task interference, and routes inputs to relevant subspaces via learned semantic vectors without requiring task identities. Experiments on LLaMA-3.1-8B and Qwen3-8B demonstrate that CAST matches per-task LoRA accuracy across 15 sequential tasks while maintaining a fixed adapter budget with over 24% idle capacity preserved.
MinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document Parsing
Junbo Niu | Zheng Liu | Zhuangcheng Gu | Bin Wang | Linke Ouyang | Zhiyuan Zhao | Tao Chu | Tianyao He | Fan Wu | Qintong Zhang | Zhenjiang Jin | Guang Liang | Rui Zhang | Wenzheng Zhang | Yuan Qu | Zhifei Ren | Yuefeng Sun | Zirui Tang | Boyu Niu | Yuanhong Zheng | Dongsheng Ma | Ziyang Miao | Hejun Dong | Siyi Qian | Junyuan Zhang | Fangdong Wang | Jingzhou Chen | Xiaomeng Zhao | Liqun Wei | Wei Li | Shasha Wang | RuiLiang Xu | Yuanyuan Cao | Lu Chen | Qianqian Wu | Huaiyu Gu | Lindong Lu | Dechen Lin | Shenguanlin | Xuanhe Zhou | Linfeng Zhang | Yuhang Zang | Xiaoyi Dong | Jiaqi Wang | Bo Zhang | Lei Bai | Pei Chu | Weijia Li | Jiang Wu | Lijun Wu | Zhenxiang Li | Guangyu Wang | Zhongying Tu | Chao Xu | Kai Chen | Bowen Zhou | Dahua Lin | Wentao Zhang | Conghui He
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
Junbo Niu | Zheng Liu | Zhuangcheng Gu | Bin Wang | Linke Ouyang | Zhiyuan Zhao | Tao Chu | Tianyao He | Fan Wu | Qintong Zhang | Zhenjiang Jin | Guang Liang | Rui Zhang | Wenzheng Zhang | Yuan Qu | Zhifei Ren | Yuefeng Sun | Zirui Tang | Boyu Niu | Yuanhong Zheng | Dongsheng Ma | Ziyang Miao | Hejun Dong | Siyi Qian | Junyuan Zhang | Fangdong Wang | Jingzhou Chen | Xiaomeng Zhao | Liqun Wei | Wei Li | Shasha Wang | RuiLiang Xu | Yuanyuan Cao | Lu Chen | Qianqian Wu | Huaiyu Gu | Lindong Lu | Dechen Lin | Shenguanlin | Xuanhe Zhou | Linfeng Zhang | Yuhang Zang | Xiaoyi Dong | Jiaqi Wang | Bo Zhang | Lei Bai | Pei Chu | Weijia Li | Jiang Wu | Lijun Wu | Zhenxiang Li | Guangyu Wang | Zhongying Tu | Chao Xu | Kai Chen | Bowen Zhou | Dahua Lin | Wentao Zhang | Conghui He
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 6: Industry Track)
We introduce MinerU2.5, a 1.2B-parameter document parsing vision-language model that achieves state-of-the-art recognition accuracy while maintaining exceptional computational efficiency. Our approach employs a coarse-to-fine, two-stage parsing strategy that decouples global layout analysis from local content recognition. In the first stage, the model performs efficient layout analysis on downsampled images to identify structural elements, circumventing the computational overhead of processing high-resolution inputs. In the second stage, guided by the global layout, it performs targeted content recognition on native-resolution crops extracted from the original image, preserving fine-grained details in dense text, complex formulas, and tables. To support this strategy, we developed a comprehensive data engine that generates diverse, large-scale training corpora for both pretraining and fine-tuning. Ultimately, MinerU2.5 demonstrates strong document parsing ability, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks, surpassing both general-purpose and domain-specific models across various recognition tasks, while maintaining significantly lower computational overhead.
2025
WebUIBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models in WebUI-to-Code
Zhiyu Lin | Zhengda Zhou | Zhiyuan Zhao | Tianrui Wan | Yilun Ma | Junyu Gao | Xuelong Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Zhiyu Lin | Zhengda Zhou | Zhiyuan Zhao | Tianrui Wan | Yilun Ma | Junyu Gao | Xuelong Li
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
With the rapid advancement of Generative AI technology, Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) have the potential to act as AI software engineers capable of executing complex web application development. Considering that the model requires a confluence of multidimensional sub-capabilities to address the challenges of various development phases, constructing a multi-view evaluation framework is crucial for accurately guiding the enhancement of development efficiency. However, existing benchmarks usually fail to provide an assessment of sub-capabilities and focus solely on webpage generation outcomes. In this work, we draw inspiration from the principles of software engineering and further propose WebUIBench, a benchmark systematically designed to evaluate MLLMs in four key areas: WebUI Perception, HTML Programming, WebUI-HTML Understanding, and WebUI-to-Code. WebUIBench comprises 21K high-quality question-answer pairs derived from over 0.7K real-world websites. The extensive evaluation of 29 mainstream MLLMs uncovers the skill characteristics and various weakness that models encountered during the development process.
LLMs Caught in the Crossfire: Malware Requests and Jailbreak Challenges
Haoyang Li | Huan Gao | Zhiyuan Zhao | Zhiyu Lin | Junyu Gao | Xuelong Li
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Haoyang Li | Huan Gao | Zhiyuan Zhao | Zhiyu Lin | Junyu Gao | Xuelong Li
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has heightened concerns about their security, particularly their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks that leverage crafted prompts to generate malicious outputs. While prior research has been conducted on general security capabilities of LLMs, their specific susceptibility to jailbreak attacks in code generation remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we propose MalwareBench, a benchmark dataset containing 3,520 jailbreaking prompts for malicious code-generation, designed to evaluate LLM robustness against such threats. MalwareBench is based on 320 manually crafted malicious code generation requirements, covering 11 jailbreak methods and 29 code functionality categories. Experiments show that mainstream LLMs exhibit limited ability to reject malicious code-generation requirements, and the combination of multiple jailbreak methods further reduces the model’s security capabilities: specifically, the average rejection rate for malicious content is 60.93%, dropping to 39.92% when combined with jailbreak attack algorithms. Our work highlights that the code security capabilities of LLMs still pose significant challenges.
2024
LSTPrompt: Large Language Models as Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasters by Long-Short-Term Prompting
Haoxin Liu | Zhiyuan Zhao | Jindong Wang | Harshavardhan Kamarthi | B. Aditya Prakash
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Haoxin Liu | Zhiyuan Zhao | Jindong Wang | Harshavardhan Kamarthi | B. Aditya Prakash
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
Time-series forecasting (TSF) finds broad applications in real-world scenarios. Prompting off-the-shelf Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrates strong zero-shot TSF capabilities while preserving computational efficiency. However, existing prompting methods oversimplify TSF as language next-token predictions, overlooking its dynamic nature and lack of integration with state-of-the-art prompt strategies such as Chain-of-Thought. Thus, we propose LSTPrompt, a novel approach for prompting LLMs in zero-shot TSF tasks. LSTPrompt decomposes TSF into short-term and long-term forecasting sub-tasks, tailoring prompts to each. LSTPrompt guides LLMs to regularly reassess forecasting mechanisms to enhance adaptability. Extensive evaluations demonstrate consistently better performance of LSTPrompt than existing prompting methods, and competitive results compared to foundation TSF models.
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- Junyu Gao 4
- Xuelong Li 3
- Zhiyu Lin 2
- Tianrui Wan 2
- Lei Bai 1
- Yuanyuan Cao 1
- Jingzhou Chen 1
- Kai Chen 1
- Lu Chen 1
- Pei Chu 1
- Tao Chu 1
- Hejun Dong 1
- Xiaoyi Dong 1
- Shuangjie Fan 1
- Huan Gao 1
- Huaiyu Gu 1
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- Conghui He 1
- Tianyao He 1
- Di Hu 1
- Chengxiang Huang 1
- Zhenjiang Jin 1
- Harshavardhan Kamarthi 1
- Piotr Koniusz 1
- Haoyang Li 1
- Wei Li 1
- Weijia Li 1
- Zhenxiang Li 1
- Guang Liang 1
- Dahua Lin 1
- Dechen Lin 1
- Haoxin Liu 1
- Zheng Liu 1
- Lindong Lu 1
- Dongsheng Ma 1
- Yilun Ma 1
- Ziyang Miao 1
- Boyu Niu 1
- Junbo Niu 1
- Siqu Ou 1
- Linke Ouyang 1
- B. Aditya Prakash 1
- Siyi Qian 1
- Yuan Qu 1
- Zhifei Ren 1
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- Yuefeng Sun 1
- Zirui Tang 1
- Zhongying Tu 1
- Bin Wang 1
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- Shasha Wang 1
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- Fan Wu 1
- Jiang Wu 1
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- Yuhang Zang 1
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- Xiaomeng Zhao 1
- Yuanhong Zheng 1
- Bowen Zhou 1
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