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Yating Wu

@yatingwu.bsky.social

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ECE Ph.D. from UT Austin, advised by @jessyjli and @AlexGDimakis I am on the 2026-2027 academic and industry job markets. yatingwu.info

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Yating Wu @yatingwu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

[3/4] Do VLMs actually ground in the figure? Fine-tuning Qwen3.5-9B on MQUD makes generated questions more grounded in the figure and more specific to the paper’s scientific content.

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Yating Wu @yatingwu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

[2/4] These questions often require reasoning across the figure and paper text: Why does this curve shift? What comparison is scientifically meaningful? What claim is this figure supporting? 🔍

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Yating Wu @yatingwu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What does a scientific figure make you wonder? 📊 We introduce MQUD: multimodal Questions Under Discussion for scientific figures. With 1,250 author-annotated questions over 245 figures from 56 papers, MQUD asks what scientific question a figure raises in context.

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