Papers by Qiming Li
AdaMix: Adaptive Mixing for Short and Long Reasoning Adapters (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for large reasoning models have improved efficiency but still face limitations such as conflicting objectives and limited adaptability. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive reasoning framework that applies a uniform, computation-intensive deep reasoning strategy to all problems. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the average response length of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B by 54.9% while improving accuracy by up to 4.8% on five mathematical datasets. |
Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning Capability of LLMs and LVLMs through Representation Engineering (2026.acl-long)
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Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Yixuan Ma, Ruihan Chen, Zihe Tong, Zekai Ye, Xiachong Feng, Libo Qin, Haoyu Ren, Kun Chen, Yunfei Lu, Dandan Tu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to enhance multilingual reasoning capabilities rely on costly multilingual training or employ prompting with external translation tools. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-free inference-time method to enhance multilingual reasoning capabilities via Representation Engineering without additional training data or tools. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods on four reasoning benchmarks in English and Thai and Swahili. |
FactVerse: A Benchmark for Factual Consistency in Interleaved Image–Text Generation (2026.acl-long)
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Yubo Shan, Kun Zhang, Qiming Xu, Liping Cao, Yingying Cao, Jian Zhang, Yu Wang, Jingyuan Li, Yuanzhuo Wang
| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks lack effective mechanisms to evaluate factual consistency in interleaved image-text generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark dedicated to evaluating factual consistency in interleaved image-text generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing evaluation methods in evaluating factual consistency in interleaved image-text generation. |
CLAIM: Mitigating Multilingual Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models with Cross-Lingual Attention Intervention (2025.acl-long)
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Zekai Ye, Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Libo Qin, Yichong Huang, Baohang Li, Kui Jiang, Yang Xiang, Zhirui Zhang, Yunfei Lu, Duyu Tang, Dandan Tu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have impressive multimodal abilities but remain prone to multilingual object hallucination. |
| Approach: | They propose a cross-lingual attention intervention method to mitigate multilingual object hallucination in LVLMs by aligning attention patterns. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves 13.56% (up to 30%) on the POPE and 21.75% on the hallucination subsets across languages. |
Investigating and Mitigating the Multimodal Hallucination Snowballing in Large Vision-Language Models (2024.acl-long)
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Weihong Zhong, Xiaocheng Feng, Liang Zhao, Qiming Li, Lei Huang, Yuxuan Gu, Weitao Ma, Yuan Xu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) suffer from multimodal hallucinations . however, the generated hallucines could influence the models’ subsequent generation . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to evaluate LVLMs' behaviors when encountering generated hallucinations and a method to revise the output distribution of LVLs with the one derived from the residual visual input. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the performance of open-source LVLMs by 31%, indicating that they are prone to accept the generated hallucinations and make false claims that they would not have supported without distractions. |
OMIBench: Benchmarking Olympiad-Level Multi-Image Reasoning in Large Vision-Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Qiguang Chen, Chengyu Luan, Jiajun Wu, Qiming Yu, Yi Yang, Yizhuo Li, Jingqi Tong, Xiachong Feng, Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che
| Challenge: | Existing multimodal reasoning benchmarks for large vision-language models emphasize single-image analysis and fail to exploit contextual information across multiple images. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate Olympiad-level reasoning when evidence is distributed over multiple images. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models on bi-image Olympiads and Gemini-3-Pro on multimodal Olympiad-level reasoning tasks. |
EmoCharacter: Evaluating the Emotional Fidelity of Role-Playing Agents in Dialogues (2025.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | EmoCharacter evaluates emotional fidelity of role-playing agents in dialogues . current evaluations focus on personality fidelity, tone imitation, and knowledge consistency . |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to assess emotional fidelity of role-playing agents in dialogues using large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark measures emotional fidelity of role-playing agents and the characters they portray. |
Disco-RAG: Discourse-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2026.acl-long)
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Dongqi Liu, Hang Ding, Qiming Feng, Xurong Xie, Zhucun Xue, Chengjie Wang, Jian Li, Jiangning Zhang, Yabiao Wang
| Challenge: | Existing RAG strategies treat retrieved passages in a flat and unstructured way, which prevents the model from capturing structural cues and constrains its ability to synthesize knowledge from dispersed evidence across documents. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that explicitly injects discourse signals into the generation process. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on question answering and long-document summarization benchmarks show the efficacy of the proposed framework. |
MaDS: Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Synergizing Dual-Layer Memory and Multi-Round Debate (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current methods struggle to distinguish targets in low Signal-to-Noise Ratio environments and lack sufficient pre-execution verification to prevent error accumulation. |
| Approach: | They propose a Memory-augmented Debate System to ensure precise grounding across diverse interfaces and handle irreversible errors in extended workflows. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves a 90.23% task success rate on MaDS-Benchmark and strong performance on public benchmarks including AITW, AITZ, CAGUI, and GUIOdyssey. |
Stratagem: Learning Transferable Reasoning via Trajectory-Modulated Game Self-Play (2026.acl-long)
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Xiachong Feng, Deyi Yin, Xiaocheng Feng, Yi Jiang, Libo Qin, Yangfan Ye, Lei Huang, Weitao Ma, Qiming Li, Yuxuan Gu, Bing Qin, Lingpeng Kong
| Challenge: | Existing self-play approaches to developing general reasoning in language models rely on terminal game outcomes. |
| Approach: | They propose a game-based reasoning transfer model that addresses two barriers to reasoning transfer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves mathematical reasoning, general reasoning, and code generation benchmarks. |
MPR-GUI: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multilingual Perception and Reasoning in GUI Agents (2026.acl-long)
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Ruihan Chen, Qiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Weihong Zhong, Xiaoliang Yang, Yuxuan Gu, Zekun Zhou, Yunfei Lu, Haoyu Ren, Kun Chen, Dandan Tu, Bing Qin
| Challenge: | Existing GUI benchmarks lack fine-grained diagnostics to identify which capabilities lead to task failures. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual P R GUI Benchmark to assess LVLMs' language capabilities . they propose XLI to align non-English hidden states with English ones during inference . |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark reveals consistent gaps between English and non-English settings . it reduces the cross-lingual gaps with an average gain of 6.5% in non- English settings compared to static benchmarks . |