Zhiying Tu
Publications
From Simple QA to Deep Research: A Verifiable Benchmark Constructed through Iterative Task Evolution
Deep research benchmarks require expert-level tasks and reliable evaluation grounded in task-specific knowledge. Existing benchmarks rely heavily on expert authoring or pre-existing human-authored materials, while fully automatic construction struggles to ensure consistent and traceable verification. To address this gap, we introduce a verifiable benchmark of 500 deep research tasks spanning 31 topics and 10 major categories, with three query forms designed to probe complementary capabilities required for deep research. The benchmark is constructed automatically using an iterative Explorer-Formalizer-Challenger pipeline that progressively transforms simple questions into deep research tasks. Each task is represented as a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of atomic steps and associated checkpoints, enabling the query, DAG, and rubrics to evolve together in a controlled manner. Experiments demonstrate that the benchmark clearly discriminates among models and query types, while its fact-grounded pointwise rubrics enable fine-grained, human-aligned, and stable evaluation. Our data, implementation, and results are publicly available.
Dual-Path LLM Reasoning for Multimodal Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion
Knowledge graph completion (KGC) aims to infer missing facts in knowledge graphs (KGs), thereby improving their completeness and supporting downstream intelligent applications. However, emerging entities and relations in real-world deployments make inductive KGC difficult, especially under few-shot and zero-shot settings. Multimodal information and Large Language Model (LLM)-derived priors can enrich sparse relational contexts, but they may also introduce noisy or hallucinated evidence. To address these issues, we propose DuPLeR, a \textbf{Du}al-\textbf{P}ath \textbf{L}LM \textbf{R}easoning framework for multimodal few-shot KGC. DuPLeR builds a calibrated relation graph by combining multimodal LLM-derived type priors with factual support structures, and performs dual-level structural reasoning over the refined relation topology. Moreover, a dual-pathway multimodal enhancement module regulates message passing with query-relevant multimodal signals and supplements entity representations after graph propagation. Experiments on eight inductive variants of two multimodal KG (MMKG) benchmarks show that DuPLeR achieves robust performance in data-scarce KGC scenarios.
An Effective Router for Vision-Language Model Selection
Vision-language models (VLMs) with varying performance and resource requirements are widely deployed, making it difficult for users to select the most appropriate one among numerous VLM candidates. Existing work reveals the performance paradox phenomenon in language models and focuses on routing methods to solve it. However, developing a router for VLM selection is still a critical yet challenging problem, which primarily faces: 1) lack of specialized data, 2) ineffective feature representation, and 3) rigid model space and costly adaptation. In this paper, we construct a multimodal dataset for VLM selection, containing the outputs of seven mainstream VLMs on 32,626 unique image-text queries. We then propose ARMS, a router for VLM selection. ARMS enhances input signals with VLM profiles, employs a simple but effective architecture to improve representations of queries and VLM capabilities. To improve ARMS' adaptation to new VLMs, we propose two extension training strategies: incremental training and independent training. Experimental results on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution test sets demonstrate the effectiveness of ARMS. In particular, using our training strategy, ARMs (only 800M in size) can adapt to a broader VLM space and defeat commercial models like GPT-4o that are hundreds of times larger in scale. Our code, models, and datasets are available in the anonymous repository.
Beyond Confidence: The Rhythms of Reasoning in Generative Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities yet suffer from sensitivity to slight input context variations, hampering reliability. Conventional metrics like accuracy and perplexity fail to assess local prediction robustness, as normalized output probabilities can obscure the underlying resilience of an LLM's internal state to perturbations. We introduce the Token Constraint Bound ($δ_{\mathrm{TCB}}$), a novel metric that quantifies the maximum internal state perturbation an LLM can withstand before its dominant next-token prediction significantly changes. Intrinsically linked to output embedding space geometry, $δ_{\mathrm{TCB}}$ provides insights into the stability of the model's internal predictive commitment. Our experiments show $δ_{\mathrm{TCB}}$ correlates with effective prompt engineering and uncovers critical prediction instabilities missed by perplexity during in-context learning and text generation. $δ_{\mathrm{TCB}}$ offers a principled, complementary approach to analyze and potentially improve the contextual stability of LLM predictions.