Hui Li

The paper proposes ESC-Skills, a skill-centric framework that discovers and self-evolves executable emotional support skills to improve the interpretability and emotional quality of conversational AI.

The paper demonstrates that the valence structure learned by modern LLMs aligns with human EEG emotional representations, but finds that further supervised alignment is ineffective due to a phenomenon called saturation regularity.

The paper introduces Canonical-Context On-Policy Distillation (CCOPD) to improve multi-turn language model performance by mitigating 'self-anchored drift,' ensuring consistent answers regardless of whether the evidence is presented in a single prompt or gradually across multiple turns.

The paper introduces $ ext{RLR}^3$, a novel framework that extends verifiable rewards in Reinforcement Learning to handle partially verifiable, multi-criteria vision-language tasks by integrating robust rubric scoring.

The paper proposes a unified framework that decouples long-video reasoning into semantic and visual evidence, significantly improving performance on the HD-EPIC VQA Challenge.

The paper introduces SpatialAct, a challenging benchmark that reveals a significant 'reasoning-to-action gap,' showing that current VLMs struggle to maintain coherent spatial understanding and perform reliable actions in multi-turn 3D environments.

PatchWorld introduces a gradient-free framework to create executable Python world models from offline trajectories, achieving high planning scores by inducing symbolic belief-state programs.

EvoGens is an evolution-inspired framework that treats scientific idea generation as an evolutionary search, significantly boosting the novelty and diversity of generated research ideas compared to existing LLM-based methods.

The paper introduces SkyShield, the first front-view monocular semantic occupancy benchmark for low-altitude urban UAV flight, along with a novel metric and model to address the unique safety challenges of aerial navigation.

The paper introduces DSL-LLaDA, a method that lightly adapts a pre-trained masked diffusion language model to perform continuous denoising in embedding space, significantly improving text generation quality and robustness, especially under low step budgets.

The paper introduces D3IM, a novel parameter-free sampler that enables direct revision of visible tokens in Masked Diffusion Language Models, and proposes SCOPE to mitigate the model's tendency to perpetuate errors.

The paper proposes GIM-World, a geometry-aware implicit memory framework that significantly improves long-horizon video world models by explicitly encoding 3D scene geometry into a compact memory state.

OctoT2I introduces a self-evolving, agentic routing framework that efficiently selects and combines multiple Text-to-Image models, achieving high performance while significantly boosting inference speed and energy efficiency.

This paper investigates the vulnerability of LLM-based automatic grading systems to prompt injection (PI) attacks, demonstrating that current systems are highly susceptible to manipulation that can lead to unfairly high scores.

The paper proposes Astra, an agentic framework that equips Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with the ability to perform spatial reasoning by actively generating and utilizing imagined visual evidence from a world simulator.

The paper presents CoRe, a query rewriter system that uses the deployed multimodal relevance model as its source for reward and closes the simulation-production gap, allowing for weekly redeployment.

This paper introduces the Agent-Native Immune System (ANIS), an endogenous defense architecture for autonomous agents against runtime hijacking.

The paper presents Symbolon, a framework that learns and applies context-sensitively diverse code transformations to improve symbolic execution, increasing coverage and reducing costs.

The paper introduces UniClawBench, a capability-driven benchmark for evaluating proactive agents in real-world settings, using five foundational capabilities and live Docker containers.

This paper introduces the asymmetric origami bending (AOB) pattern and asymmetric dual-chamber (ADC) design for creating a soft robotic hand called OSOR, which achieves bio-inspired motions and simplified manufacturing.