Papers by Wenyu Guo
Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Authentic Images for Multimodal Machine Translation (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing models require associated image with input sentence, which is difficult to satisfy at inference. |
| Approach: | They propose to use synthetic and authentic images to generate translations using text-to-image generation models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on En-De and En-Fr datasets while remaining independent of authentic images during inference. |
Covariance Matrix-Driven Image Channel Allocation for Multimodal Fake News Detection (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods focus on designing efficient multimodal fusion frameworks to bridge the semantic gap between images and texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a covariance matrix-driven image channel allocation method that expands the number of original channel maps and assigns importance scores to the expanded channel maps. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art on three public multimodal fake news detection benchmark datasets. |
Multi-Scale Spectral Selection and Entropy-Guided Uncertainty Fusion for Multimodal Rumor Detection (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for multimodal content detection fail to capture cross-modal semantic inconsistencies and ignore inherent noise in multimodal features. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal rumor detection method based on a frequency domain spectral selection method and entropy-guided uncertainty fusion method to capture cross-modal semantic inconsistencies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in multimodal rumor detection . it shows stronger detection capability and robustness on multiple datasets . |
Can LLMs See Without Pixels? Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence from Textual Descriptions (2026.findings-acl)
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Zhongbin Guo, Zhen Yang, Yushan Li, Xinyue Zhang, Wenyu Gao, Jiacheng Wang, Chengzhi Li, Xiangrui Liu, Ping Jian
| Challenge: | Existing advances in Spatial Intelligence rely on vision-Language Models . however, a critical question remains: does spatial understanding originate from visual encoders? |
| Approach: | They propose to evaluate the SI performance of Large Language Models without pixel-level input. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark challenges large language models to perform symbolic reasoning rather than visual pattern matching. |