Chris Thomas

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

16 papers at tracked venues · 10 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

EMNLP ×5 ACL ×3 AAAI ×2 CVPR ×2 ACM MM ×1 CHI ×1 NeurIPS ×1 WACV ×1

Frequent coauthors

Chia-Wei Tang

×6

Alvi Md. Ishmam

×5

Md. Atabuzzaman

×4

Andrew Zhang

×4

Anushka Sivakumar

×4

Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim

×3

Hani Alomari

×3

Hammad A. Ayyubi

×3

Shih-Fu Chang

×3

Ali Asgarov

×2

Aafiya Shamshad Hussain

×2

Junzhang Liu

×2

Papers

Designing Multi-Robot Ground Video Sensemaking with Public Safety Professionals
CHI 2026 ·
Puqi Zhou
,
Ali Asgarov
,
Aafiya Hussain
,
Wonjoon Park
,
Amit Paudyal
,
Sameep Shrestha
,
Chia-Wei Tang
,
Michael F. Lighthiser
,
Michael R. Hieb
,
Xuesu Xiao
, Chris Thomas,
Sungsoo Ray Hong
LAMP: Learning Universal Adversarial Perturbations for Multi-Image Tasks via Pre-trained Models
AAAI 2026 ·
Alvi Md. Ishmam
,
Najibul Haque Sarker
,
Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim
, Chris Thomas
SoundBreak: A Systematic Study of Audio-Only Adversarial Attacks on Trimodal Models
ACL 2026 ·
Aafiya Shamshad Hussain
,
Gaurav Srivastava
,
Alvi Md. Ishmam
,
Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim
, Chris Thomas
Advancing Chart Question Answering with Robust Chart Component Recognition
WACV 2025 ·
Hanwen Zheng
,
Sijia Wang
, Chris Thomas,
Lifu Huang
Benchmarking and Mitigating MCQA Selection Bias of Large Vision-Language Models
EMNLP 2025 ·
Md. Atabuzzaman
,
Ali Asgarov
, Christopher Thomas
Flexible-length Text Infilling for Discrete Diffusion Models
EMNLP 2025 ·
Andrew Zhang
,
Anushka Sivakumar
,
Chia-Wei Tang
, Chris Thomas
Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval
ACL 2025 ·
Hani Alomari
,
Anushka Sivakumar
,
Andrew Zhang
, Chris Thomas
Real-Time Ultra-Fine-Grained Surgical Instrument Classification
CVPR 2025 ·
Md. Atabuzzaman
,
Gino DiMatteo
,
Hani Alomari
,
Chiawei Tang
,
Connor Hale
,
Adam E. Goode
,
David Ryan King
, Chris Thomas
SteerVLM: Robust Model Control through Lightweight Activation Steering for Vision Language Models
EMNLP 2025 ·
Anushka Sivakumar
,
Andrew Zhang
,
Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim
, Christopher Thomas
Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Large Vision-Language Models
EMNLP 2025 ·
Md. Atabuzzaman
,
Andrew Zhang
, Christopher Thomas
Beyond Grounding: Extracting Fine-Grained Event Hierarchies across Modalities
AAAI 2024 ·
Hammad A. Ayyubi
, Christopher Thomas,
Lovish Chum
,
Rahul Lokesh
,
Long Chen
,
Yulei Niu
,
Xudong Lin
,
Xuande Feng
,
Jaywon Koo
,
Sounak Ray
,
Shih-Fu Chang
Detecting Multimodal Situations with Insufficient Context and Abstaining from Baseless Predictions
ACM MM 2024 ·
Junzhang Liu
,
Zhecan Wang
,
Hammad A. Ayyubi
,
Haoxuan You
, Chris Thomas,
Rui Sun
,
Shih-Fu Chang
,
Kai-Wei Chang
JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
NeurIPS 2024 ·
Zhecan Wang
,
Junzhang Liu
,
Chia-Wei Tang
,
Hani Alomari
,
Anushka Sivakumar
,
Rui Sun
,
Wenhao Li
,
Md. Atabuzzaman
,
Hammad A. Ayyubi
,
Haoxuan You
,
Alvi Md. Ishmam
,
Kai-Wei Chang
,
Shih-Fu Chang
, Christopher Thomas
M3D: MultiModal MultiDocument Fine-Grained Inconsistency Detection
EMNLP 2024 ·
Chia-Wei Tang
,
Ting-Chih Chen
,
Kiet Nguyen
,
Kazi Sajeed Mehrab
,
Alvi Md. Ishmam
, Chris Thomas
MetaSumPerceiver: Multimodal Multi-Document Evidence Summarization for Fact-Checking
ACL 2024 ·
Ting-Chih Chen
,
Chia-Wei Tang
, Chris Thomas
Semantic Shield: Defending Vision-Language Models Against Backdooring and Poisoning via Fine-Grained Knowledge Alignment
CVPR 2024 ·
Alvi Md. Ishmam
, Christopher Thomas