Papers by Sitong Fang
When Slower Isn’t Truer: Inverse Scaling Law of Truthfulness in Multimodal Reasoning (2026.findings-acl)
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Sitong Fang, Wenjing Cao, Jiahao Li, Xuyao Wang, Chi-Min Chan, Sirui Han, Juntao Dai, Yike Guo, Yaodong Yang, Jiaming Ji
| Challenge: | a study of slow reasoning models for multimodal reasoning finds that they are more prone to fabricating plausible yet false details when confronted with incomplete or misleading visual inputs. |
| Approach: | They conduct the first systematic study of the inverse scaling law in slow-thinking paradigms for multimodal reasoning. |
| Outcome: | The findings suggest that slower reasoning models are more prone to fabricating false details . the study analyzed 5,000-sample hierarchical prompt dataset by 50 participants . |