Papers by Yonghong Deng
How Do LLMs and VLMs Understand Viewpoint Rotation Without Vision? An Interpretability Study (2026.acl-long)
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Zhen Yang, Ping Jian, Zhongbin Guo, Zuming Zhang, Chengzhi Li, Yonghong Deng, Xinyue Zhang, Wenpeng Lu
| Challenge: | Existing studies on spatial intelligence from the perspective of visual-spatial intelligence have not explored whether visual intelligence alone is sufficient to endow models with spatial intelligence. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a linguistic perspective to investigate spatial intelligence from a theoretical perspective. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs poorly on the proposed dataset while human can easily achieve 100% accuracy. |
Where CoT Reasoning Commits: Entropy Traces Identify Interpretable Attention Heads (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | a growing body of work suggests a disconnect between the generated rationale and the model's actual choice. |
| Approach: | They propose a mechanism-aware framework that interprets the evolving "choice state" of attention heads during CoT generation . they identify a set of intervention targets and perform Selective Head Fine-Tuning . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework interprets the "choice state" of attention heads during CoT generation . it detects two functional behaviors: Steadfast Heads and Wavering Heads . |