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Ziqi Zhou

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arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-17

When Does Muon Help Agentic Reinforcement Learning?

Kai Ruan, Jinghao Lin, Zihe Huang, Ziqi Zhou, Qianshan Wei, Xuan Wang, et al.

Muon is competitive with AdamW in large-scale pre-training, but its value for reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training remains unclear. We study vanilla Muon in sparse-reward agentic RL through matched single-seed comparisons with AdamW on ALFWorld using Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct. U…

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arxivcs.CV2026-07-11

Imperceptible and Reversible Adversarial Examples against Vision-Language Models for Privacy Protection

Qi Lu, Ziqi Zhou, Yufei Song, Zijing Li, Lulu Xue, Minghui Li, et al.

Vision Language Models (VLMs) offer powerful multimodal ability but also expose users to text-based privacy attacks where adversaries crawl online photos and query VLMs to extract sensitive attributes. Existing reversible adversarial example (RAE) methods protect images in purely…

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arxivcs.AI2026-07-07

Doomed from the Start: Early Abort of LLM Agent Episodes via a Recall-Controlled Probe Cascade

Kai Ruan, Zihe Huang, Ziqi Zhou, Qianshan Wei, Jinghao Lin, Xuan Wang, et al.

Large language model (LLM) agents often waste inference compute by continuing multi-step trajectories that are already doomed to fail. We study early failure prediction and inference-time early stopping for LLM agents using hidden-state probes. Lightweight linear probes on intern…

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arxivcs.AI2026-06-27

COMPASS: Grounding Composition-Intent Guidance in Unified Multimodal Models

Ziqi Zhou, Weize Quan, Mining Tan, Zhihan Chen, Dandan Zheng, Jingdong Chen, et al.

Composition is a high-level visual intent that governs where subjects are placed and how a scene is organized, yet current unified multimodal models remain unreliable at fine-grained composition recognition and struggle to turn such intent into controllable generation. We present…

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