8.4CVNov 28, 2025
Unlocking Multilingual Reasoning Capability of LLMs and LVLMs through Representation EngineeringQiming Li, Xiaocheng Feng, Yixuan Ma et al.
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities, yet their performance in English significantly outperforms that in low-resource languages, raising fairness concerns in multilingual applications. Existing approaches either rely on costly multilingual training or employ prompting with external translation tools, both of which are resource-intensive and sensitive to translation quality. To address these limitations, we propose a training-free inference-time method to enhance Multilingual Reasoning capabilities via Representation Engineering (MRRE) without using any additional training data or tools. MRRE sequentially injects two precomputed vectors at specific layers during inference processing: cross-lingual reasoning enhancement vectors, which steer non-English reasoning representations toward English space to unlock multilingual reasoning, and target-language output anchoring vectors, which restore the distribution of the target language to preserve input-output language consistency. Comprehensive experiments across six advanced LLMs and LVLMs on four reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that MRRE consistently enhances non-English reasoning by an average gain of 5.48% and up to 7.54% in low-resource languages (Thai and Swahili), while improving input-output language consistency by 3.78%.
1.2QUANT-PHJun 10, 2025
Solving excited states for long-range interacting trapped ions with neural networksYixuan Ma, Chang Liu, Weikang Li et al. · tsinghua
The computation of excited states in strongly interacting quantum many-body systems is of fundamental importance. Yet, it is notoriously challenging due to the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space dimension with the system size. Here, we introduce a neural network-based algorithm that can simultaneously output multiple low-lying excited states of a quantum many-body spin system in an accurate and efficient fashion. This algorithm, dubbed the neural quantum excited-state (NQES) algorithm, requires no explicit orthogonalization of the states and is generally applicable to higher dimensions. We demonstrate, through concrete examples including the Haldane-Shastry model with all-to-all interactions, that the NQES algorithm is capable of efficiently computing multiple excited states and their related observable expectations. In addition, we apply the NQES algorithm to two classes of long-range interacting trapped-ion systems in a two-dimensional Wigner crystal. For non-decaying all-to-all interactions with alternating signs, our computed low-lying excited states bear spatial correlation patterns similar to those of the ground states, which closely match recent experimental observations that the quasi-adiabatically prepared state accurately reproduces analytical ground-state correlations. For a system of up to 300 ions with power-law decaying antiferromagnetic interactions, we successfully uncover its gap scaling and correlation features. Our results establish a scalable and efficient algorithm for computing excited states of interacting quantum many-body systems, which holds potential applications ranging from benchmarking quantum devices to photoisomerization.
An improved helmet detection method for YOLOv3 on an unbalanced datasetRui Geng, Yixuan Ma, Wanhong Huang
The YOLOv3 target detection algorithm is widely used in industry due to its high speed and high accuracy, but it has some limitations, such as the accuracy degradation of unbalanced datasets. The YOLOv3 target detection algorithm is based on a Gaussian fuzzy data augmentation approach to pre-process the data set and improve the YOLOv3 target detection algorithm. Through the efficient pre-processing, the confidence level of YOLOv3 is generally improved by 0.01-0.02 without changing the recognition speed of YOLOv3, and the processed images also perform better in image localization due to effective feature fusion, which is more in line with the requirement of recognition speed and accuracy in production.