Qiao Liang

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) enables LLM agents to solve tasks through planning, tool use, and iterative revision, but outcome-only reinforcement learning in this setting suffers from sparse, delayed rewards and weak step-level credit assignment. In long-horizon TIR trajectories, an early irre...

Multimodal Emotion–Cause Triplet Extraction in Conversations (MECTEC) is fundamental for fine-grained affect understanding, yet it remains challenging in multi-turn, multi-speaker settings. Existing methods often make locally plausible predictions but struggle to maintain conversation-level consi...