All Publications (from newest to oldest)

2026

• PhyWorldBench: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Physical Realism in Text-to-Video Models Jing Gu, Xian Liu, Yu Zeng, Ashwin Nagarajan, Fangrui Zhu, Daniel Hong, Yue Fan, Qianqi Yan, Kaiwen Zhou, Ming-Yu Liu, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2026 (Oral)
• Presenting a Paper is an Art: Self-Improvement Aesthetic Agents for Academic Presentations Chengzhi Liu, Yuzhe Yang, Kaiwen Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Yue Fan, Yanan Xie, Peng Qi, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2026
• SAFER: Risk-Constrained Sample-then-Filter in Large Language Models Qingni Wang, Yue Fan, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2026

2025

• Interleaved Vision-and-Language Generation via Generative Vokens Kaizhi Zheng*, Xuehai He*, Xin Eric Wang WACV 2026
• Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space Zhen Zhang, Xuehai He, Weixiang Yan, Ao Shen, Chenyang Zhao, Shuohang Wang, Yelong Shen, Xin Eric Wang NeurIPS 2025
• GRIT: Teaching MLLMs to Think with Images Yue Fan, Xuehai He, Diji Yang, Kaizhi Zheng, Ching-Chen Kuo, Yuting Zheng, Sravana Jyothi Narayanaraju, Xinze Guan, Xin Eric Wang NeurIPS 2025
• More Thinking, Less Seeing? Assessing Amplified Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Models Chengzhi Liu, Zhongxing Xu, Qingyue Wei, Juncheng Wu, James Zou, Xin Eric Wang, Yuyin Zhou, Sheng Liu NeurIPS 2025
• SafeKey: Amplifying Aha-Moment Insights for Safety Reasoning Kaiwen Zhou, Xuandong Zhao, Gaowen Liu, Jayanth Srinivasa, Aosong Feng, Dawn Song, Xin Eric Wang EMNLP 2025
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Probing Implicit Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models Qianqi Yan, Hongquan Li, Shan Jiang, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xin Eric Wang EMNLP 2025
• GUI-Bee: Align GUI Action Grounding to Novel Environments via Autonomous Exploration Yue Fan, Handong Zhao, Ruiyi Zhang, Yu Shen, Xin Eric Wang, Gang Wu EMNLP 2025
• Dynamic Evaluation for Oversensitivity in LLMs Sophia Xiao Pu, Sitao Cheng, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang Findings of EMNLP 2025
• Agent S2: A Compositional Generalist-Specialist Framework for Computer Use Agents Saaket Agashe*, Kyle Wong*, Vincent Tu*, Jiachen Yang, Ang Li, Xin Eric Wang COLM 2025
• VLM4D: Towards Spatiotemporal Awareness in Vision Language Models Shijie Zhou*, Alexander Vilesov*, Xuehai He*, Ziyu Wan, Shuwang Zhang, Aditya Nagachandra, Di Chang, Dongdong Chen, Xin Eric Wang, Achuta Kadambi ICCV 2025
• Multimodal Inconsistency Reasoning (MMIR): A New Benchmark for Multimodal Reasoning Models Qianqi Yan, Yue Fan, Hongquan Li, Shan Jiang, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xin Eric Wang Findings of ACL 2025
• Worse than Random? An Embarrassingly Simple Probing Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models in Medical VQA Qianqi Yan, Xuehai He, Xiang Yue, Xin Eric Wang Findings of ACL 2025
  NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on GenAI for Health
• Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human Saaket Agashe*, Jiuzhou Han*, Shuyu Gan, Jiachen Yang, Ang Li, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2025
  Best Paper Award (ICLR 2025 Agentic AI for Science Workshop)
• Multimodal Situational Safety Kaiwen Zhou*, Chengzhi Liu*, Xuandong Zhao, Anderson Compalas, Dawn Song, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2025
• MMWorld: Towards Multi-discipline Multi-faceted World Model Evaluation in Videos Xuehai He, Weixi Feng, Kaizhi Zheng, Yujie Lu, Wanrong Zhu, Jiachen Li, Yue Fan, Jianfeng Wang, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Kevin Lin, William Yang Wang, Lijuan Wang, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2025
• EditRoom: LLM-parameterized Graph Diffusion for Composable 3D Room Layout Editing Kaizhi Zheng, Xiaotong Chen, Xuehai He, Jing Gu, Linjie Li, Zhengyuan Yang, Kevin Lin, Jianfeng Wang, Lijuan Wang, Xin Eric Wang ICLR 2025
• LLM-Coordination: Evaluating and Analyzing Multi-Agent Coordination Abilities in Large Language Models Saaket Agashe, Yue Fan, Anthony Reyna, Xin Eric Wang Findings of NAACL 2025

2024

• Read Anywhere Pointed: Layout-aware GUI Screen Reading with Tree-of-Lens Grounding Yue Fan, Lei Ding, Ching-Chen Kuo, Shan Jiang, Yang Zhao, Xinze Guan, Jie Yang, Yi Zhang, Xin Eric Wang EMNLP 2024
• Active Listening: Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Social Conversation with User Model Based Prompting Kevin Bowden, Yue Fan, Winsom Chen, Wen Cui, Davan Harrison, Xin Eric Wang, Marilyn Walker Findings of EMNLP 2024
• Multimodal Procedural Planning via Dual Text-Image Prompting Yujie Lu, Pan Li, Zhiyu Chen, Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang Findings of EMNLP 2024
• FlexEControl: Flexible and Efficient Multimodal Control for Text-to-Image Generation Xuehai He, Jian Zheng, Jacob Zhiyuan Fang, Robinson Piramuthu, Mohit Bansal, Vicente Ordonez, Gunnar A Sigurdsson, Nanyun Peng, Xin Eric Wang Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2024
• Discfusion: Discriminative Diffusion Models as Few-shot Vision and Language Learners Xuehai He, Weixi Feng, Tsu-Jui Fu, Varun Jampani, Arjun Akula, Pradyumna Narayana, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang, Xin Eric Wang Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2024
• SwapAnything: Enabling Arbitrary Object Swapping in Personalized Visual Editing Jing Gu, Yilin Wang, Nanxuan Zhao, Wei Xiong, Qing Liu, Zhifei Zhang, He Zhang, Jianming Zhang, HyunJoon Jung, Xin Eric Wang ECCV 2024
• NavGPT-2: Unleashing Navigational Reasoning Capability for Large Vision-Language Models Gengze Zhou, Yicong Hong, Zun Wang, Xin Eric Wang, Qi Wu ECCV 2024
• Muffin or Chihuahua? Challenging Large Vision-Language Models with Multipanel VQA Yue Fan, Jing Gu, Kaiwen Zhou, Qianqi Yan, Shan Jiang, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xinze Guan, Xin Eric Wang ACL 2024
• ViCor: Bridging Visual Understanding and Commonsense Reasoning with Large Language Models Kaiwen Zhou, Kwonjoon Lee, Teruhisa Mitsu, Xin Eric Wang ACL 2024
• Navigation as Attackers Wish? Towards Building Byzantine-Robust Embodied Agents under Federated Learning Yunchao Zhang, Zonglin Di, Kaiwen Zhou, Cihang Xie, Xin Eric Wang NAACL 2024
• ComCLIP: Training-Free Compositional Image and Text Matching Kenan Jiang*, Xuehai He*, Ruize Xu, Xin Eric Wang NAACL 2024

2023

• Photoswap: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images Jing Gu, Yilin Wang, Nanxuan Zhao, Tsu-Jui Fu, Wei Xiong, Qing Liu, Zhifei Zhang, He Zhang, Jianming Zhang, HyunJoon Jung, Xin Eric Wang NeurIPS 2023
• LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Models Weixi Feng*, Wanrong Zhu*, Tsu-jui Fu, Varun Jampani, Arjun Akula, Xuehai He, Sugato Basu, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang NeurIPS 2023
• LLMScore: Unveiling the Power of Large Language Models in Text-to-Image Synthesis Evaluation Yujie Lu, Xianjun Yang, Xiujun Li, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang NeurIPS 2023
• R2H: Building Multimodal Navigation Helpers that Respond to Help Requests Yue Fan, Jing Gu, Kaizhi Zheng, Xin Eric Wang EMNLP 2023
• Collaborative Generative AI: Integrating GPT-k for Efficient Editing in Text-to-Image Generation Wanrong Zhu, Xinyi Wang, Yujie Lu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang EMNLP 2023
• Parameter-Efficient Cross-lingual Transfer of Vision and Language Models via Translation-based Alignment Zhen Zhang, Jialu Wang, Xin Eric Wang Findings of EMNLP 2023
• Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation Yue Fan, Winson Chen, Tongzhou Jiang, Chun Zhou, Yi Zhang, Xin Eric Wang Findings of ACL 2023
• T2IAT: Measuring Valence and Stereotypical Biases in Text-to-Image Generation Jialu Wang, Xinyue Gabby Liu, Zonglin Di, Yang Liu, Xin Eric Wang Findings of ACL 2023
• ESC: Exploration with Soft Commonsense Constraints for Zero-shot Object Navigation Kaiwen Zhou, Kaizhi Zheng, Connor Pryor, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin, Lise Getoor, Xin Eric Wang ICML 2023
• Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis Weixi Feng, Xuehai He, Tsu-Jui Fu, Varun Jampani, Arjun Akula, Pradyumna Narayana, Sugato Basu, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang ICLR 2023
• Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Planning with Commonsense Prompting Yujie Lu, Weixi Feng, Wanrong Zhu, Wenda Xu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang ICLR 2023
• Multimodal Graph Transformer for Multimodal Question Answering Xuehai He, Xin Eric Wang EACL 2023
• Visualize Before You Write: Imagination-Guided Open-Ended Text Generation Wanrong Zhu, An Yan, Yujie Lu, Wenda Xu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang EACL 2023
• ImaginE: An Imagination-Based Automatic Evaluation Metric for Natural Language Generation Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, An Yan, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang EACL 2023
• Parameter-efficient Model Adaptation for Vision Transformers Xuehai He, Chunyuan Li, Pengchuan Zhang, Jianwei Yang, Xin Eric Wang AAAI 2023
• Athena 3.0: Personalized Multimodal Chatbot with Neuro-symbolic Dialogue Generators Yue Fan, Kevin K. Bowden, Wen Cui, Winson Chen, Vrindavan Harrison, Angela Ramirez, Saaket Agashe, Xinyue Gabby Liu, Neha Pullabhotla, Nan Qiang, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Sugam Garg, Marilyn Walker, Xin Eric Wang Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5 Proceedings 2023
• Sage: A Multimodal Knowledge Graph-based Conversational Agent for Complex Task Guidance Kaizhi Zheng, Jeshwanth Bheemanpally, Bhrigu Garg, Seongsil Heo, Dhananjay Sonawane, Winson Chen, Shree Vignesh S, Xin Eric Wang Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge 2 Proceedings 2023
• SlugJARVIS: Multimodal Commonsense Knowledge-based Embodied AI for SimBot Challenge Jing Gu, Kaizhi Zheng, Kaiwen Zhou, Yue Fan, Xuehai He, Jialu Wang, Zonglin Di, Xin Eric Wang Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge Proceedings 2023

2022

• CPL: Counterfactual Prompt Learning for Vision and Language Models Xuehai He, Diji Yang, Weixi Feng, Tsu-Jui Fu, Arjun Akula, Varun Jampani, Pradyumna Narayana, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang, Xin Eric Wang EMNLP 2022
• VLMbench: A Compositional Benchmark for Vision-and-Language Manipulation Kaizhi Zheng, Xiaotong Chen, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Xin Eric Wang NeurlPS 2022
• FedVLN: Privacy-preserving Federated Vision-and-Language Navigation Kaiwen Zhou, Xin Eric Wang ECCV 2022
• Language-Driven Artistic Style Transfer Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang ECCV 2022
• Understanding Instance-Level Impact of Fairness Constraints Jialu Wang, Xin Eric Wang, Yang Liu ICML 2022
• Imagination-Augmented Natural Language Understanding Yujie Lu, Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang NAACL 2022
• Diagnosing Vision-and-Language Navigation: What Really Matters Wanrong Zhu, Yuankai Qi, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, Xin Eric Wang, Qi Wu, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang NAACL 2022
• Compositional Temporal Grounding with Structured Variational Cross-Graph Correspondence Learning Juncheng Li, Junlin Xie, Long Qian, Linchao Zhu, Siliang Tang, Fei Wu, Yi Yang, Yueting Zhuang, Xin Eric Wang CVPR 2022
• M3L: Language-based Video Editing via Multi-Modal Multi-Level Transformer Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang CVPR 2022
• Vision-and-Language Navigation: A Survey of Tasks, Methods, and Future Directions Jing Gu, Eliana Stefani, Qi Wu, Jesse Thomason, Xin Eric Wang ACL 2022
• Assessing Multilingual Fairness in Pretrained Multimodal Representations Jialu Wang, Yang Liu, Xin Eric Wang Findings of ACL 2022
• Interpretable Research Replication Prediction via Variational Contextual Consistency Sentence Masking Tianyi Luo, Rui Meng, Xin Eric Wang, Yang Liu Findings of ACL 2022

2021

• Are Gender-Neutral Queries Really Gender-Neutral? Mitigating Gender Bias in Image Search Jialu Wang, Yang Liu, Xin Eric Wang EMNLP 2021
• VALUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark for Video-and-Language Understanding Evaluation Linjie Li, Jie Lei, Zhe Gan, Licheng Yu, Yen-Chun Chen, Rohit Pillai, Yu Cheng, Luowei Zhou, Xin Eric Wang,
  William Yang Wang, Tamara Lee Berg, Mohit Bansal, Jingjing Liu, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu NeurIPS 2021
• Visual Question Rewriting for Increasing Response Rate Jiayi Wei, Xilian Li, Yi Zhang, Xin Eric Wang SIGIR 2021
• Multimodal Text Style Transfer for Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, Tsu-Jui Fu, An Yan, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang EACL 2021
• L2C: Describing Visual Differences Needs Semantic Understanding of Individuals An Yan, Xin Eric Wang, Tsu-Jui Fu, William Yang Wang EACL 2021

2020

• Closing the Loop Between Language and Vision for Embodied Agents Xin Wang UC Santa Barbara
• SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang EMNLP 2020
• Towards Understanding Sample Variance in Visually Grounded Language Generation: Evaluations and Observations Wanrong Zhu☆, Xin Eric Wang, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, William Yang Wang EMNLP 2020
• Learning to Stop: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Urban Vision-Language Navigation Jiannan Xiang☆, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang Findings of EMNLP 2020
• Environment-agnostic Multitask Learning for Natural Language Grounded Navigation Xin Eric Wang*, Vihan Jain*, Eugene Ie, William Yang Wang, Zornitsa Kozareva, Sujith Ravi ECCV 2020
• Counterfactual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Adversarial Path Sampling Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Matthew Peterson, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang ECCV 2020
• Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning of Transferable Meta-Skills for Embodied Navigation Juncheng Li, Xin Wang, Siliang Tang, Haizhou Shi, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang, William Yang Wang CVPR 2020
• REVERIE: Remote Embodied Visual Referring Expression in Real Indoor Environments Yuankai Qi, Qi Wu, Peter Anderson, Xin Wang, William Yang Wang, Chunhua Shen, Anton van den Hengel CVPR 2020
• Vision-Language Navigation Policy Learning and Adaptation Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2020
• Generative Adversarial Zero-Shot Relational Learning for Knowledge Graphs Pengda Qin, Xin Wang, Wenhu Chen, Chunyun Zhang, Weiran Xu, William Yang Wang AAAI 2020

2019

• TIGEr: Text-to-Image Grounding for Image Caption Evaluation Ming Jiang, Qiuyuan Huang, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang, Pengchuan Zhang, Zhe Gan, Jana Diesner, Jianfeng Gao EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
• VATEX: A Large-Scale, High-Quality Multilingual Dataset for Video-and-Language Research Xin Wang*, Jiawei Wu*, Junkun Chen, Lei Li, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang ICCV 2019
• Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation Xin Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jianfeng Gao, Dinghan Shen, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang, Lei Zhang CVPR 2019
• MAN: Moment Alignment Network for Natural Language Moment Retrieval via Iterative Graph Adjustment Da Zhang, Xiyang Dai, Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang, Larry S. Davis CVPR 2019
• Self-Supervised Dialogue Learning Jiawei Wu, Xin Wang, William Yang Wang ACL 2019
• Self-Supervised Learning for Contextualized Extractive Summarization Hong Wang, Xin Wang, Wenhan Xiong, Mo Yu, Xiaoxiao Guo, Shiyu Chang, William Yang Wang ACL 2019
• Towards Generating Long and Coherent Text with Multi-Level Latent Variable Models Dinghan Shen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yizhe Zhang, Liqun Chen, Xin Wang, Jianfeng Gao, Lawrence Carin ACL 2019
• Extract and Edit: An Alternative to Back-Translation for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Jiawei Wu, Xin Wang, William Yang Wang NAACL 2019
• Learning to Compose Topic-Aware Mixture of Experts for Zero-Shot Video Captioning Xin Wang, Jiawei Wu, Da Zhang, Yu Su, William Yang Wang AAAI 2019

2018

• Look Before You Leap: Bridging Model-Free and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Planned-Ahead Vision-and-Language Navigation Xin Wang*, Wenhan Xiong*, Hongmin Wang, William Yang Wang ECCV 2018
• XL-NBT: A Cross-lingual Neural Belief Tracking Framework Wenhu Chen, Jianshu Chen, Yu Su, Xin Wang, Dong Yu, Xifeng Yan, William Yang Wang EMNLP 2018
• No Metrics Are Perfect: Adversarial Reward Learning for Visual Storytelling Xin Wang*, Wenhu Chen*, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang ACL 2018
• S3D: Single Shot multi-Span Detector via Fully 3D Convolutional Network Da Zhang, Xiyang Dai, Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang BMVC 2018
• Video Captioning via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Xin Wang, Wenhu Chen, Jiawei Wu, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang CVPR 2018
• Watch, Listen, and Describe: Globally and Locally Aligned Cross-Modal Attentions for Video Captioning Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang, William Yang Wang NAACL-HLT 2018

2017

• Multimodal Transfer: A Hierarchical Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Artistic Style Transfer Xin Wang, Geoffrey Oxholm, Da Zhang, Yuan-Fang Wang CVPR 2017
• Deep Reinforcement Learning for Visual Object Tracking in Videos Da Zhang, Hamid Maei, Xin Wang, Yuan-Fang Wang Tech report 2017