Grounding Multi-Hop Reasoning in Structural Causal Models via Group Relative Policy Optimization
School of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China(新疆大学计算机科学与技术学院,乌鲁木齐,中国);Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China(北京理工大学,北京,中国);Military Science Information Research Center, Academy of Military Science, Beijing, China(军事科学院军事科学信息研究中心,北京,中国)
Yunhan Bu, Quan Zhang, Huaping Zhang, Guotong Geng, Chunxiao Gao, Askar Hamdulla, Juan Wang, Qiuchi Li, Baohua Zhang, Shuai Lei, Yunbo Cao, Zhunchen Luo
Multi-Hop Fact Verification requires complex reasoning across disparate evidence, posing significant challenges for Large Language Models , which may suffer from hallucinations and fractured logical chains. Existing methods, while improving transparency via Chain-of-Thought , often lack explicit modeling of the structural dependencies between evidence and claims. In this work, we introduce an SCM-inspired framework that grounds reasoning in explicit directed dependency graphs, treating verification as a constructive structural reasoning process rather than full causal inference with interventions or counterfactual semantics. We empirically identify an "inverted U-shaped" correlation between reasoning-chain length and accuracy, revealing that excessive structural complexity can degrade performance. To address this, we propose a rule-based reinforcement learning strategy using Group Relative Policy Optimization. This approach dynamically optimizes the trade-off between structural depth and conciseness. Extensive experiments on HoVer and EX-FEVER demonstrate that our SCM-GRPO framework outperforms strong baselines while producing more traceable reasoning structures for complex fact verification.
TAVR-VLM: Risk-Conditioned Causal Grounding for Hallucination-Resistant Report Generation
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(西交利物浦大学);Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学);Kunming University of Science and Technology(昆明理工大学)
Grounding Before Generalizing: How AI Differs from Humans in Causal Transfer
Department of Automation(清华大学自动化系);Institute for Artificial Intelligence(北京大学人工智能研究院);School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences(北京大学心理与认知科学系);State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence(通用人工智能国家重点实验室);Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health(北京行为与心理健康重点实验室)
From Concept Alignment to Causal Grounding: An Intervention Test of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)(德国人工智能研究中心(DFKI));Saarland Informatics Campus(萨尔兰信息学园区);Centre for European Research in Trusted AI (CERTAIN)(欧洲可信人工智能研究中心(CERTAIN));Technische Universität Berlin(柏林工业大学);IBM Research(IBM研究院);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);University of Groningen(格罗宁根大学)
MultihopSpatial: Multi-hop Compositional Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for Vision-Language Model
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea(韩国电信研究院);Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea(韩国科学技术院);Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea(成均馆大学);DeepAuto, South Korea(DeepAuto)
Overview of the NLPCC 2025 Shared Task 4: Multi-modal, Multilingual, and Multi-hop Medical Instructional Video Question Answering Challenge
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(深圳先进技术研究所,中国科学院);School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology(计算机科学与技术学院,北京理工大学);School of Engineering, Westlake University(工程学院,西湖大学)
Coherent Without Grounding, Grounded Without Success: Observability and Epistemic Failure
Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)(加泰罗尼亚纳米科学与纳米技术研究所(ICN2));Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)(人工智能研究所(IIIA-CSIC))
Grounding Physical Concepts of Objects and Events Through Dynamic Visual Reasoning
The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);MIT CSAIL(麻省理工学院计算机科学与人工智能实验室);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);MIT BCS, CBMM, CSAIL(麻省理工学院脑与认知科学系、大脑、心智与机器中心、计算机科学与人工智能实验室);MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab(MIT-IBM沃森人工智能实验室)
M$^3$-Med: A Benchmark for Multi-lingual, Multi-modal, and Multi-hop Reasoning in Medical Instructional Video Understanding
Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);The Hong Kong Polytechnic University(香港理工大学);Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);Air Force Hospital of Southern Theater Command of PLA(中国人民解放军南部战区空军医院);Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital(深圳中医药医院)
GroundAnything: Reconciling Parallel Decoding with Precise Visual Grounding at Flash Speed
XPeng Inc.(小鹏汽车);Peking University(北京大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校);Princeton University(普林斯顿大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);HKUST (GZ)(香港科技大学(广州))
Does Location Matter? A Black-Box Causal Audit Reveals Model-Dependent Audio Grounding in LALM Hallucination
Sharif University of Technology(谢里夫理工大学);Amirkabir University of Technology(阿米尔卡比尔理工大学);New Uzbekistan University(新乌兹别克斯坦大学);Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology(冲绳科学技术大学院大学)