VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Eason Lai
dblp:334/1428
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Vision and language · 33% Trustworthy machine learning · 33% Language models and text generation · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › natural language understanding
ambiguity handling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning · ACL (1) 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
robustness |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning · ACL (1) 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification Reasoning · ACL (1) 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
probing dataset · 0.9benchmark evaluation · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | FOCUS: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Underspecification ReasoningabstractHumans possess a remarkable ability to interpret underspecified ambiguous statements by inferring their meanings from contexts such as visual inputs.This ability, however, may not be as developed in recent pre-trained visionlanguage models (VLMs).In this paper, we introduce a novel probing dataset called FO-CUS to evaluate whether state-of-the-art VLMs have this ability.FOCUS consists of underspecified sentences paired with image contexts and carefully designed probing questions.Our experiments reveal that VLMs still fall short in handling underspecification even when visual inputs that can help resolve the ambiguities are available.To further support research in underspecification, FOCUS will be released for public use.We hope this dataset will inspire further research on the reasoning and contextual understanding capabilities of VLMs. Kankan Zhou, Eason Lai, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Jing Jiang 0001 |
ACL (1) | 2 |