Publications

Papers

* denotes equal contribution. The full list is on Google Scholar.

Preprints

  • CoTA++: Understanding the Repeat Curse in dMLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective

    Qiyan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xu-Yao Zhang, Shijie Han, Zhepeng Li, Shunzhi Zhu, Da-Han Wang

    arXiv 2026 PaperCode
  • Coalition-Aware Skill Reliability for Self-Evolving Agents

    Qiyan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang, Bo Liu, Minda Chen, Wei Xiong, Jingyang Chen, Guanting Ye, Wenhao Yu, Xiaosong Yuan, Shijie Han, Da-Han Wang, Jianmin Ji, Fei Huang, Xu-Yao Zhang

    arXiv 2026 Paper

2026

  • Context Tokens are Anchors: Understanding the Repeat Curse in dMLLMs from an Information Flow Perspective

    Qiyan Zhao*, Xiaofeng Zhang*, Shuochen Chang, Qianyu Chen, Xiaosong Yuan, Xuhang Chen, Luoqi Liu, Jiajun Zhang, Xu-Yao Zhang, Da-Han Wang

    ICLR 2026 PaperCode
  • Hallucination Begins Where Saliency Drops

    Xiaofeng Zhang, Yuanchao Zhu, Chaochen Gu, Xiaosong Yuan, Qiyan Zhao, Jiawei Cao, Feilong Tang, Sinan Fan, Yaomin Shen, Chen Shen, Hao Tang

    ICLR 2026Oral PaperCode
  • Context-Aware Cluster Decoding: Semantic Anchor-Driven Coherence in dMLLMs

    Yikai Zhao, Qiyan Zhao, Jiaquan Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiaosong Yuan, Pengzhou Cheng

    EMNLP 2026 PaperCode
  • SoPE: Spherical Coordinate-Based Positional Embedding for Enhancing Spatial Perception of 3D LVLMs

    Koon-Ting Yip*, Qiyan Zhao*, Wenhao Yu, Liangyu Yuan, Mingkai Li, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Qing Jiang, Ka-Veng Yuen

    CVPR 2026 Paper
  • C2RoPE: Causal Continuous Rotary Positional Encoding for 3D Large Multimodal Models Reasoning

    Koon-Ting Yip, Qiyan Zhao, Wenhao Yu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Ka-Veng Yuen

    ICRA 2026 PaperCode
  • Embodied Chain-of-Thought Model via Interleaved Reasoning

    Bo Liu, Qiyan Zhao, Liming Zhang, Yuhan Wang, Yong Liu

    IROS 2026Oral
  • TokenPenalty: Alleviating Attention Sinks and Positional Decay in LVLMs

    Xiaofeng Zhang, Yuanchao Zhu, Qiyan Zhao, Xiaosong Yuan, Jiawei Cao, Xuhang Chen

    Findings of ACL 2026 Paper
  • Fixing Semantic Blind Spots in Anchor Tokens of dMLLMs

    Ruixuan Xu, Jiexi Xu, Qiyan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang

    Findings of ACL 2026 Paper

2025

  • MCA-LLaVA: Manhattan Causal Attention for Reducing Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models

    Qiyan Zhao*, Xiaofeng Zhang*, Yiheng Li, Yun Xing, Xiaosong Yuan, Feilong Tang, Sinan Fan, Xuhang Chen, Da-Han Wang, Xu-Yao Zhang

    ACM MM 2025 PaperCode