📝 Publications

†: Corresponding Author

📊 Published 17 papers, including 11 as first/student first author and 7 first-author CCF-A papers.

📌 First-Author Publications

• Towards Proactive Multi-Perspective Visual Reasoning for Diagram Question Answering, Xinyu Zhang, Yanrui Wu, Lingling Zhang, Yuxuan Dong, Zesheng Yang, Yaqiang Wu, Qinghua Zheng, Acta Automatica Sinica 2026 (CCF-A)
• Beyond Layer-Wise Merging: Chain-of-Merging for Vision-Language Models, Xinyu Zhang, Yuxuan Dong, Lingling Zhang, Chengyou Jia, Zhuohang Dang, YiXing Yao, Yaqiang Wu, Basura Fernando, Jun Liu, CVPR 2026 (CCF-A)
• Dual-Cluster Memory Agent: Resolving Multi-Paradigm Ambiguity in Optimization Problem Solving, Xinyu Zhang, Yuchen Wan, Boxuan Zhang, Zesheng Yang, Lingling Zhang, Bifan Wei, Jun Liu, ACL 2026 (CCF-A, Oral, ~2%)
• OptiVerse: A Comprehensive Benchmark towards Optimization Problem Solving, Xinyu Zhang, Boxuan Zhang, Yuchen Wan, Lingling Zhang, YiXing Yao, Bifan Wei, Yaqiang Wu, Jun Liu, ACL 2026 Findings
• CoFFT: Chain of Foresight-Focus Thought for Visual Language Models, Xinyu Zhang, Yuxuan Dong, Lingling Zhang, Chengyou Jia, Zhuohang Dang, Basura Fernando, Jun Liu, Mike Zheng Shou, NeurIPS 2025 (CCF-A)
• PhysReason: A Comprehensive Benchmark towards Physics-Based Reasoning, Xinyu Zhang, Yuxuan Dong, Yanrui Wu, Jiaxing Huang, Chengyou Jia, Basura Fernando, Mike Zheng Shou, Lingling Zhang, Jun Liu, ACL 2025 (CCF-A)
• Cognitive Predictive Coding Network: Rethinking the Generalization in Raven’s Progressive Matrices, Xinyu Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Yanrui Wu, Muye Huang, Jun Liu, ACM MM 2025 (CCF-A)
• Memory-Enriched Thought-by-Thought Framework for Complex Diagram Question Answering, Xinyu Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Yanrui Wu, Shaowei Wang, Wenjun Wu, Muye Huang, Qianying Wang and Jun Liu, CVIU 2025 (CCF-B)
• Diagram-driven course questions generation, Xinyu Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Yanrui Wu, Muye Huang, Wenjun Wu, Bo Li, Shaowei Wang, Basura Fernando, Jun Liu, EMNLP 2025 (CCF-B)
• Alignment Relation is What You Need for Diagram Parsing, Xinyu Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Xin Hu, Jun Liu, Shaowei Wang, Qianying Wang, IEEE TIP 2024 (CCF-A)
• RPMG-FSS: Robust Prior Mask Guided Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation, Lingling Zhang, Xinyu Zhang†, Qianying Wang, Wenjun Wu, Xiaojun Chang, Jun Liu, IEEE TCSVT 2023 (CCF-B)

🤝 Co-Authored Publications

• PhysPRM: A Generative Process Reward Model with Fine-grained Diagnosis for Physics Problem Solving, Yuxuan Dong, Xinyu Zhang†, Lingling Zhang, Han Lai, Pengyu Li, Bifan Wei, Yaqiang Wu, Jun Liu, ACL 2026 Findings
• Correspondence Coverage Matters for Multi-Modal Dataset Distillation, Zhuohang Dang, Minnan Luo, Chengyou Jia, Hangwei Qian, Xinyu Zhang, Xiaojun Chang, Ivor Tsang, AAAI 2026 (CCF-A)
• Encode Geometric Diagram as Geo-Graph in Geometry Problem Solving, Wenjun Wu, Lingling Zhang, Bo Zhao, Bo Li, Xinyu Zhang, Yanrui Wu, AAAI 2026 (CCF-A)
• LogicGraph: Benchmarking Multi-Path Logical Reasoning via Neuro-Symbolic Generation and Verification, Yanrui Wu, Lingling Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Jiayu Chang, Pengyu Li, Xu Jiang, Jingtao Hu, Jun Liu, arXiv 2026
• Evochart: A Benchmark and a Self-Training Approach towards Real-World Chart Understanding, Muye Huang, Han Lai, Xinyu Zhang, Wenjun Wu, Jie Ma, Lingling Zhang, Jun Liu, AAAI 2025 (CCF-A)
• VProChart: Answering Chart Question through Visual Perception Alignment Agent and Programmatic Solution Reasoning, Muye Huang, Lingling Zhang, Han Lai, Wenjun Wu, Xinyu Zhang, Jun Liu, AAAI 2025 (CCF-A)
• Cog-DQA: Chain-of-Guiding Learning with Large Language Models for Diagram Question Answering, Shaowei Wang, Lingling Zhang, Longji Zhu, Tao Qin, Kim-Hui Yap, Xinyu Zhang, Jun Liu, CVPR 2024 (CCF-A)
• Alignment-Guided Self-Supervised Learning for Diagram Question Answering, Shaowei Wang, Lingling Zhang, Wenjun Wu, Tao Qin, Xinyu Zhang, Jun Liu, IEEE TMM 2024 (CCF-A)
• Diagram Visual Grounding: Learning to See with Gestalt-Perceptual Attention, Xin Hu, Lingling Zhang, Jun Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Wenjun Wu, Qianying Wang, IJCAI 2023 (CCF-B)