Papers by Fuwen Luo
Model Composition for Multimodal Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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Chi Chen, Yiyang Du, Zheng Fang, Ziyue Wang, Fuwen Luo, Peng Li, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for creating versatile MLLMs rely on joint training with paired instruction data, which is resource-intensive and challenging to extend to new modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a new paradigm for multimodal large language models by reusing modality encoders and merging LLM parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model retains the modal understanding capabilities of each original model. |
Enabling Stroke-Level Structural Analysis of Hieroglyphic Scripts without Language-Specific Priors (2026.findings-acl)
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Fuwen Luo, Zihao Wan, Ziyue Wang, Yaluo Liu, Pau Tong Lin Xu, Xuanjia Qiao, Xiaolong Wang, Peng Li, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing structural analysis methods for hieroglyphic scripts are script-specific and labor-intensive. |
| Approach: | They propose a hieroglyphic Stroke Analyzer framework that captures character-internal structures and semantics without handcrafted data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures character-internal structures and semantics without priors . it can be used to generalize hieroglyphic scripts across languages . |
ActiView: Evaluating Active Perception Ability for Multimodal Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Ziyue Wang, Chi Chen, Fuwen Luo, Yurui Dong, Yuanchi Zhang, Yuzhuang Xu, Xiaolong Wang, Peng Li, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks for evaluating MLLMs have not addressed active perception . a novel benchmark is proposed to evaluate active perception in ML models . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate active perception in Multimodal Large Language Models . they restrict the perceptual field of a model and require it to actively zoom or shift it . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark focuses on a specialized form of Visual Question Answering (VQA) that eases and quantifies the evaluation yet challenging for existing MLLMs. |
Perspective Transition of Large Language Models for Solving Subjective Tasks (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing . performance of LLMs on subjective tasks is limited, authors say . |
| Approach: | They propose a method that allows LLMs to select between direct, role, and third-person perspectives for best way to solve corresponding subjective problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms widely used single fixed perspective based methods on 12 subjective tasks. |
Browse and Concentrate: Comprehending Multimodal Content via Prior-LLM Context Fusion (2024.acl-long)
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Ziyue Wang, Chi Chen, Yiqi Zhu, Fuwen Luo, Peng Li, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) lack understanding of multi-image and interleaved inputs due to the visual features encoded by frozen encoders before being fed into the LLM backbone. |
| Approach: | They propose a two phase paradigm to enable in-depth multimodal context fusion prior to feeding the features into LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed paradigm boosts the performance on 7 multi-image scenarios, contributing to increments on average accuracy by 2.13% and 7.60% against strong MLLMs baselines with 3B and 11B LLMs, respectively. |
CODIS: Benchmarking Context-dependent Visual Comprehension for Multimodal Large Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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Fuwen Luo, Chi Chen, Zihao Wan, Zhaolu Kang, Qidong Yan, Yingjie Li, Xiaolong Wang, Siyu Wang, Ziyue Wang, Xiaoyue Mi, Peng Li, Ning Ma, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Multimodal large language models have demonstrated promising results in a variety of tasks that combine vision and language. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess the ability of models to use contextual information in free-form text to enhance visual comprehension. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model fails to extract and utilize contextual information to improve understanding of images. |
MUSEG: Reinforcing Video Temporal Understanding via Timestamp-Aware Multi-Segment Grounding (2026.acl-long)
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Fuwen Luo, Shengfeng Lou, Chi Chen, Ziyue Wang, Chenliang Li, Weizhou Shen, Jiyue Guo, Peng Li, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Existing methods for MLLMs struggle with fine-grained temporal reasoning . despite advances in video understanding, current methods struggle with time-sensitive tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a time-stamp-aware multi-segment grounding method that enhances temporal understanding by introducing timestamps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on time-sensitive tasks and generalizes well across diverse temporal understanding scenarios. |
DongbaMIE: A Multimodal Information Extraction Dataset for Evaluating Semantic Understanding of Dongba Pictograms (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Xiaojun Bi, Shuo Li, Junyao Xing, Ziyue Wang, Fuwen Luo, Weizheng Qiao, Lu Han, Ziwei Sun, Peng Li, Yang Liu
| Challenge: | Dongba pictographic is the only pictograph script still in use in the world. |
| Approach: | DongbaMIE is the first dataset focusing on multimodal information extraction of Dongbe pictographs. |
| Outcome: | The dataset contains 23,530 sentence-level and 2,539 paragraph-level high-quality text-image pairs. |