Papers by Sai Ma
Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting for Multimodal LLMs (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing efforts to improve task accuracy or enrich COT generation are lacking in multimodal large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a Faithful-First Reasoning, Planning, and Acting framework that evaluates faithfulness of intermediate reasoning and uses it to plan and execute faithfulness-aware actions during inference. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves perceptual faithfulness by up to 24% over prompt-based and tool-augmented reasoning frameworks without degrading task accuracy. |