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Timothy Liu

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arxivcs.CV2026-07-17

How Do VLMs Fail? Vision-Operation Misalignment in Compositional VQA

Navya Gupta, Bingjie Xu, Avinash Anand, Timothy Liu, Zhengchen Zhang

Compositional visual question answering requires Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to execute multiple reasoning operations like object selection, spatial relation resolution, and attribute verification. Despite strong aggregate performance, the mechanistic basis of VLM failures on t…

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arxivcs.ROcs.HC2026-07-17

PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction

Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran, Timothy Liu, Aik Beng Ng, Simon See

Equipping humanoid robots with coherent and adaptable personas is crucial for fostering natural, engaging, and trustworthy human-robot interaction (HRI). However, existing approaches often rely on static, hard-coded identities that lack the flexibility to adapt to individual user…

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arxivcs.LG2026-06-25

RSPC: A Benchmark for Modeling Stress and Psychiatric Conditions in Digitally Mediated Relationships using Psychiatrist Annotations

Parmitha Vangapandu, Sai Ganesh Mokkapati, Sathwik Narkedimilli, MSVPJ Sathvik, Timothy Liu, Simon See, et al.

In NLP, mental health conditions are often modeled as isolated phenomena, without interpersonal context. We use Reddit posts about long-distance relationships to capture both mental health distress and associated relational triggers. We introduce the Relational Stress and Psychia…

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