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Ben Liu

13 accepted papers

2026

FDSPC: Fast and Direct Smooth Motion Planning Via Continuous Curvature Integration

ICRA 2026poster

In recent decades, mobile robot motion planning has seen significant advancements. Both search-based and sampling-based methods have demonstrated capabilities to find feasible solutions in complex scenarios. Mainstream path planning algorithms divide the map into occupied and free spaces, considerin…

2026

PolicyFlow: Policy Optimization with Continuous Normalizing Flow in Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Among on-policy reinforcement learning algorithms, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) demonstrates is widely favored for its simplicity, numerical stability, and strong empirical performance. Standard PPO relies on surrogate objectives defined via importance ratios, which require evaluating policy l…

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2026

Where-to-Learn: Analytical Policy Gradient Directed Exploration for On-Policy Robotic Reinforcement Learning

RA-L 2026

On-policy reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have demonstrated great potential in robotic control, where effective exploration is crucial for efficient and high-quality policy learning. However, how to encourage the agent to explore the better trajectories efficiently remains a challenge. Most e

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2025

Debiasing 6-DOF IMU via Hierarchical Learning of Continuous Bias Dynamics

RSS 2025poster

This paper develops a deep learning approach to the online debiasing of IMU gyroscopes and accelerometers. Most existing methods rely on implicitly learning a bias term to compensate for raw IMU data. Explicit bias learning has recently shown its potential as a more interpretable and motion-independ…

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2025

Discrete-Time Hybrid Automata Learning: Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding

RSS 2025poster

This paper introduces Discrete-time Hybrid Automata Learning (DHAL), a framework using on-policy Reinforcement Learning to identify and execute mode-switching without trajectory segmentation or event function learning. Hybrid dynamical systems, which include continuous flow and discrete mode switchi…

Cited by 5PDFScholar
2025

Enhanced Expert Merging for Mixture-of-Experts in Graph Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Graph foundation models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning transferable knowledge across diverse graph-structured data. The inherent heterogeneity in features and graph structures poses significant challenges for building scalable and generalizable GFMs. Existing research has e…

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2025

Filter-then-Generate: Large Language Models with Structure-Text Adapter for Knowledge Graph Completion

COLING 2025main

Large Language Models (LLMs) present massive inherent knowledge and superior semantic comprehension capability, which have revolutionized various tasks in natural language processing. Despite their success, a critical gap remains in enabling LLMs to perform knowledge graph completion (KGC). Empirica…

2025

MoodAngels: A Retrieval-augmented Multi-agent Framework for Psychiatry Diagnosis

NeurIPS 2025poster

The application of AI in psychiatric diagnosis faces significant challenges, including the subjective nature of mental health assessments, symptom overlap across disorders, and privacy constraints limiting data availability. To address these issues, we present MoodAngels, the first specialized multi…

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2025

Scale Down to Speed Up: Dynamic Data Selection for Reinforcement Learning

EMNLP 2025

Optimizing data utilization remains a central challenge in applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Large Language Models (LLMs), directly impacting sample efficiency, training stability, and final model performance.Current approaches often rely on massive static datasets, leading to computational in

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2025

Towards Explainable Temporal Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Structure-Aware Generative Framework

ACL 2025finding

While large language models (LLMs) show great potential in temporal reasoning, most existing work focuses heavily on enhancing performance, often neglecting the explainable reasoning processes underlying the results. To address this gap, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark covering a wide range o…

2024

Deja vu: Contrastive Historical Modeling with Prefix-tuning for Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

NAACL 2024findings

Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning (TKGR) is the task of inferring missing facts for incomplete TKGs in complex scenarios (e.g., transductive and inductive settings), which has been gaining increasing attention. Recently, to mitigate dependence on structured connections in TKGs, text-based methods h…

2023

Pre-trained Language Model with Prompts for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion

ACL 2023findings

Temporal Knowledge graph completion (TKGC) is a crucial task that involves reasoning at known timestamps to complete the missing part of facts and has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Most existing methods focus on learning representations based on graph neural networks while inacc…

2022

SMiLE: Schema-augmented Multi-level Contrastive Learning for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction

EMNLP 2022finding

Link prediction is the task of inferring missing links between entities in knowledge graphs. Embedding-based methods have shown effectiveness in addressing this problem by modeling relational patterns in triples. However, the link prediction task often requires contextual information in entity neigh…