CV
Basics
| Name | Tinghui Zhu |
| Label | Ph.D. Student at UC Davis |
| thuzhu@ucdavis.edu |
Education
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2025.09 - present Davis, CA
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2022.09 - 2025.06 Shanghai, China
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2018.09 - 2022.06 Shanghai, China
Experiences
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2026.06 - 2026.09 Mountain View, CA
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2024.04 - 2025.05 Remote
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2023.07 - 2024.02 Remote
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2022.06 - 2023.03 Shanghai, China
Awards
- 2025.09
Publications
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2026.05.14 Video Models Can Reason with Verifiable Rewards
NeurIPS 2026
We propose VideoRLVR, a systematic RLVR recipe that turns video models from visual imitators to visual reasoners.
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2026.05.13 When Vision Speaks for Sound
arxiv
We characterize models relying on visual cues and ignoring acoustic information as an audio-visual Clever Hans effect, in which models appear audio-grounded, but actually exploit visual-acoustic correlations without verifying whether the audio and visual streams are truly aligned.
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2026.04.16 Learning Adaptive Reasoning Paths for Efficient Visual Reasoning
arxiv
We propose AVR, an adaptive visual reasoning framework that decomposes visual reasoning into three cognitive functions: visual perception, logical reasoning, and answer application, enabling models to dynamically choose among different response formats.
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2025.12.05 OmniGuard: Unified Omni-Modal Guardrails with Deliberate Reasoning
arxiv
We propose OmniGuard, a unified framework that leverages deliberate reasoning to establish omni-modal guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safe and appropriate responses across diverse modalities.
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2025.11.19 Be My Eyes: Extending Large Language Models to New Modalities Through Multi-Agent Collaboration
arxiv
We propose Be My Eyes, a multi-agent collaboration framework that extends the capabilities of LLMs to new modalities through the cooperation of multiple agents.
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2025.06.02 Is Extending Modality The Right Path Towards Omni-Modality?
ICLR 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Intelligence
This paper the effect of extending modality, the dominant technique for training multimodal models, where an off-the-shelf language model is fine-tuned on target-domain and language data.
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2025.05.27 Can LLMs Learn to Map the World from Local Descriptions?
ACL 2026
This study investigates whether LLMs, grounded in locally relative human observations, can construct coherent global spatial cognition by integrating fragmented relational descriptions.
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2025.03.04 MciteBench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Citation Text Generation in MLLMs
EMNLP 2025
We introduce MCiteBench, the first benchmark designed to evaluate and analyze the multimodal citation text generation ability of MLLMs. Our benchmark comprises data derived from academic papers and review-rebuttal interactions, featuring diverse information sources and multimodal content.
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2024.10.04 Unraveling Cross-Modality Knowledge Conflicts in Large Vision-Language Models
arxiv
We formally define the problem of cross-modality parametric knowledge conflicts by systematically detecing, interpreting, and mitigating them.
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2024.04.28 From Persona to Personalization: A Survey on Role-Playing Language Agents
TMLR
A survey on Role-Playing Language Agents.
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2024.04.04 How Easily do Irrelevant Inputs Skew the Responses of Large Language Models?
COLM 2024
We present a comprehensive investigation into the robustness of LLMs to different types of irrelevant information under various conditions.
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2024.02.02 TravelPlanner: A Benchmark for Real-World Planning with Language Agents
ICML 2024 Spotlight
We propose TravelPlanner, a new planning benchmark that focuses on travel planning, a common real-world planning scenario. It provides a rich sandbox environment, various tools for accessing nearly four million data records, and 1,225 meticulously curated planning intents and reference plans.
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2024.01.31 Deductive Beam Search: Decoding Deducible Rationale for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
COLM 2024
Deductive Beam Search, constrained by the principle of deductive reasoning, integrates CoT with step-wise beam search to guide reasoning towards a deducible path.
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2023.10.27 Towards Visual Taxonomy Expansion
ACMMM 2023
We propose Visual Taxonomy Expansion (VTE), introducing visual features into the taxonomy expansion task.
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2023.10.14 SLR:A Million-Scale Comprehensive Crossword Dataset for Simultaneous Learning and Reasoning
Neurocomputing
We propose a novel crossword-based NLU task that imparts knowledge information to a model by solving crossword clues and simultaneously trains the model to infer new knowledge from existing knowledge.
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2023.06.26 End-to-End Entity Linking with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
AAAI 2023
We propose to model the Entity Linking task as a hierarchical decision-making process and design a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm to solve the problem.
Projects
- 2025.12 - 2026.07
Early Experience Scaling
This project contains open-source code and data reproductions for "Agent Learning via Early Experience", with scaled environments and trajectories of more than 500k trajectories and interaction data. The results also show consistent improvements across different domains.