Papers by Yutao Yue
NUMINA: A Natural Understanding Benchmark for Multi-dimensional Intelligence and Numerical Reasoning Abilities (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Changyu Zeng, Yifan Wang, Zimu Wang, Wei Wang, Zhengni Yang, Muyi Bao, Jimin Xiao, Anh Nguyen, Yutao Yue
| Challenge: | Existing 3D benchmarks lack fine-grained numerical reasoning task annotations, limiting MLLMs’ ability to perform precise spatial measurements and complex numerical reasoning. |
| Approach: | They propose a 3D-based benchmark to enhance indoor perceptual understanding by using multi-scale annotations and question-answer pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark improves indoor perceptual understanding by incorporating multi-scale annotations and question-answer pairs. |
MMNeuron: Discovering Neuron-Level Domain-Specific Interpretation in Multimodal Large Language Model (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing MLLMs have a visual question answering capability but lack domain-specific information. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for language model modules in MLLMs when handling projected image features and verify this hypothesis using logit lens. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework will yield a 10% change in accuracy at most, shedding light on the development of cross-domain, all-encompassing MLLMs in the future. |
Can GRPO Boost Complex Multimodal Table Understanding? (2025.emnlp-main)
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Xiaoqiang Kang, Shengen Wu, Zimu Wang, Yilin Liu, Xiaobo Jin, Kaizhu Huang, Wei Wang, Yutao Yue, Xiaowei Huang, Qiufeng Wang
| Challenge: | Existing table understanding methods struggle with low initialization accuracy and coarse rewards in tabular contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a three-stage RL framework that enhances multimodal table understanding through: (1) Warm-up that prompts initial perception and reasoning capabilities; (2) Perception Alignment GRPO (PA-GRPO); (3) Hint-Completion GR PO (HC-GRP); |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing models on held-in and held-out datasets, outperforming SFT and GRPO largely. |