Papers by Siwei Han

3 papers
SimpleOCR: Rendering Visual Questions to Teach MLLMs to Read (2026.findings-acl)

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Challenge: MLLMs lack visual grounding mechanism to read text embedded in images, or rely on parametric shortcuts . despite strong OCR capabilities, models suffer performance degradation of 12.7% in the VQ setting .
Approach: They propose a plug-and-play training strategy that invalidates shortcuts in text prompts . they propose 'vq' setting where text queries are rendered directly onto images .
Outcome: The proposed training strategy surpasses the base model by 5.4% and GRPO based on original images by 2.7% on four representative OOD benchmarks.
GLIMPSE: Do Large Vision-Language Models Truly Think With Videos or Just Glimpse at Them? (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing video benchmarks often resemble image-based questions with scans of only a few key frames, without deep temporal reasoning.
Approach: They propose a video benchmark to assess whether large vision-language models can genuinely think with videos rather than perform superficial frame-level analysis.
Outcome: The proposed benchmark consists of 3,269 videos and over 4,342 highly visual-centric questions across 11 categories, including Trajectory Analysis, Temporal Reasoning, and Forensics Detection.
SynthAgent: Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing studies have focused on synthetic supervision but have encountered data quality issues.
Approach: They propose a fully synthetic supervision framework that aims at improving data quality via dual refinement of both tasks and trajectories.
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms existing methods on standardized benchmarks and shows promising results on a standardized test.

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