Zuchao Li

Early Long-context Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) methods struggle with preserving visual semantics or handling finite context windows. Conversely, recent RAG-based approaches suffer from “semantic gaps” and “structural disconnections” due to passive retrieval mechanisms that ignore...

Long-video understanding is bottlenecked by the high cost of processing massive visual tokens. Current reduction strategies often rely on static allocation or inefficient in-network selection that disrupts optimized attention kernels. In this paper, we introduce Vista-LLM, a decoupled framework f...

Diffusion models promise efficient parallel text generation but rely on bidirectional attention, creating a structural mismatch with pre-trained Autoregressive (AR) models. This incompatibility precludes reusing robust AR priors, necessitating prohibitive pre-training from scratch. To bridge this...

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in general tasks but struggle with specialized, structured cultural symbols. We introduce BoYaEval, the first comprehensive benchmark dedicated to deciphering diverse Ancient Chinese musical notations, including five types of ancient Chinese music no...

In high-precision scenarios, vision language models suffer from Linguistic Priors Hallucination. When processing familiar text, models tend to over-rely on internal parametric knowledge, effectively “reciting” the content rather than “reading” the image. In this paper, we first systematically inv...

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance on complex tasks through extended chains of thought but suffer from high inference latency due to autoregressive reasoning. Recent work explores using Small Reasoning Models (SRMs) to accelerate LRM inference, yet existing frameworks such a...

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, while effective, suffers from an inherent mechanism flaw: linearity induces overthinking. Constrained by sequential generation, models often produce redundant narration and circular self-corrections to maintain logical context. We propose GoT-R1, a framework that...

Autoregressive decoding in Large Language Models (LLMs) generates one token per step, causing high inference latency. Speculative decoding (SD) mitigates this through a guess-and-verify strategy, but existing training-free variants face trade-offs: retrieval-based drafts break when no exact match...

While large audio language models (LALMs) have driven significant progress in multimodal conversational systems, current benchmarks suffer from critical limitations: they are largely English-centric, use synthetic speech, and fail to provide comprehensive, discriminative evaluation across key dim...

In fine-grained sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, a large pool of specialized experts replaces a small homogeneous set, shifting performance and throughput to be governed by inference-time expert activation. Yet most existing optimization recipes implicitly assume a fixed activation budget...