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Wenhu Chen

Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo

5 papers at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 2

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains

#308 · Xueguang Ma, Qian Liu, Dongfu Jiang, Ge Zhang, Zejun MA, Wenhu Chen

MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Generation

#4312 Spotlight · Cong Wei, Bo Sun, Haoyu Ma, Ji Hou, Felix Juefei-Xu, Zecheng He, Xiaoliang Dai, Luxin Zhang, Kunpeng Li, Tingbo Hou, Animesh Sinha, Peter Vajda, Wenhu Chen

We introduce MoCha, the first model for dialogue-driven movie shot generation.

Breaking the Batch Barrier (B3) of Contrastive Learning via Smart Batch Mining

#2500 Spotlight · Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Rui Meng, Ye Liu, Karthikeyan K, Mingyi Su, Ping Nie, Semih Yavuz, Yingbo Zhou, Wenhu Chen, Bhuwan Dhingra

VL-Rethinker: Incentivizing Self-Reflection of Vision-Language Models with Reinforcement Learning

#4608 Spotlight · Haozhe Wang, Chao Qu, Zuming Huang, Wei Chu, Fangzhen Lin, Wenhu Chen

Poster Session 5

Friday, December 5, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Pixel Reasoner: Incentivizing Pixel Space Reasoning via Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning

#511 · Alex Su, Haozhe Wang, Weiming Ren, Fangzhen Lin, Wenhu Chen

We introduce a novel reasoning paradigm -- pixel-space reasoning. We identified the learning trap when cultivating this ability and proposed a curiosity-driven RL approach to address it.