Papers by Haoning Wu
ProBench: Judging Multimodal Foundation Models on Open-ended Multi-domain Expert Tasks (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Solving expert-level multimodal tasks requires strong user query understanding, domain-specific knowledge, and advanced reasoning abilities. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark of open-ended user queries encapsulating professional expertise and advanced reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark is publicly accessible at TBC. |
Generative Frame Sampler for Long Video Understanding (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing video large language models (LMMs) employ an impedance of thousands of frames to understand long videos. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play module integrated with VideoLLMs to facilitate efficient lengthy video perception. |
| Outcome: | The proposed module boosts the performance of open-source VideoLLMs and proprietary assistants on long-form video benchmarks. |
MatchTime: Towards Automatic Soccer Game Commentary Generation (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing data on soccer commentary are often unsatisfactory, and the quality of existing data is often poor. |
| Approach: | They propose to manually annotate timestamps for 49 soccer matches and then use them to create a model to correct and filter existing data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves the viewing experience of soccer and can be trained on the curated dataset. |
MoNET: Tackle State Momentum via Noise-Enhanced Training for Dialogue State Tracking (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results show that MoNET outperforms previous DST methods in alleviating state momentum issues and improving the anti-noise ability. |
| Approach: | They propose to use previous state of each turn in training data as input to learn to predict current state. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on multiWOZ datasets and shows that it can update and correct slot values and improve anti-noise ability. |
MMRA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Granularity and Multi-Image Relational Association Capabilities in Large Visual Language Models (2026.findings-eacl)
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Siwei Wu, King Zhu, Yu Bai, Yiming Liang, Yizhi Li, Haoning Wu, Jiaheng Liu, Ruibo Liu, Xingwei Qu, Xuxin Cheng, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang, Chenghua Lin
| Challenge: | Current multimodal benchmarks focus on facts within individual images, but neglect associative relations among multiple images. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-image relational association task and a MMRA benchmark to evaluate LVLMs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that entity-level multi-image perception tasks pose greater challenges than image-level tasks. |
LIME: Less Is More for MLLM Evaluation (2025.findings-acl)
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King Zhu, Qianbo Zang, Shian Jia, Siwei Wu, Feiteng Fang, Yizhi Li, Shuyue Guo, Tianyu Zheng, Jiawei Guo, Bo Li, Haoning Wu, Xingwei Qu, Jian Yang, Ruibo Liu, Xiang Yue, Jiaheng Liu, Chenghua Lin, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Min Yang, Shiwen Ni, Wenhao Huang, Ge Zhang
| Challenge: | Existing MLLM benchmarks and unified evaluation frameworks cannot accurately and efficiently reflect the ability of MLMLs. |
| Approach: | They propose a semi-automated benchmark curated using a pipeline that filters out uninformative samples and eliminates answer leakage by focusing on tasks that require image-based understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark reduces the number of samples by 76% and evaluation time by 77% while it can more effectively distinguish different models’ abilities. |