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Chao Yan

10 accepted papers

2025

Density-Based Probabilistic Graphical Models for Adaptive Multi-Target Encirclement of AAV Swarm

RA-L 2025

Multi-target encirclement with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is critical for military and civilian applications such as surveillance and disaster response. Existing methods face limitations in adaptability, primarily due to their reliance on predefined formations, excessive communication requ

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2025

Emergent Cooperative Strategies for Pursuit-Evasion in Cluttered Environments: A Knowledge-Enhanced Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

IROS 2025

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently emerged as a promising tool for tackling pursuit-evasion tasks. However, most existing DRL-based pursuit approaches still rely on individual rewards and struggle with complex scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose a knowledge-enhanced DRL ap

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Towards Statistical Factuality Guarantee for Large Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in image-conditioned text generation; however, hallucinated outputs–text that misaligns with the visual input–pose a major barrier to their use in safety-critical applications. We introduce ConfLVLM, a conf

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Do You Know What You Are Talking About? Characterizing Query-Knowledge Relevance For Reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2024main

Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from hallucinations and misinformation. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) that retrieves verifiable information from an external knowledge corpus to complement the parametric knowledge in LMs provides a tangible solution to these problems. However, the ge…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

HADGEO: Image Based 3-DoF Cross-View Geo-Localization with Hard Sample Mining

ICASSP 2024accepted

Image based 3 Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the position and orientation of a camera on the ground by matching the captured ground image with geo-tagged aerial images. However, most existing methods do not sufficiently exploit the difference between positive a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

A Comprehensive Study on Text-attributed Graphs: Benchmarking and Rethinking

NeurIPS 2023poster

Text-attributed graphs (TAGs) are prevalent in various real-world scenarios, where each node is associated with a text description. The cornerstone of representation learning on TAGs lies in the seamless integration of textual semantics within individual nodes and the topological connections across…

2022

Attention-Based Population-Invariant Deep Reinforcement Learning for Collision-Free Flocking with A Scalable Fixed-Wing UAV Swarm

IROS 2022poster

A swarm of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is expected to efficiently accomplish various tasks in complex scenarios. This paper proposes an attention-based population-invariant multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) approach to deal with the decentralized collision-free flocking…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2022

Seeking Patterns, Not just Memorizing Procedures: Contrastive Learning for Solving Math Word Problems

ACL 2022findings

Math Word Problem (MWP) solving needs to discover the quantitative relationships over natural language narratives. Recent work shows that existing models memorize procedures from context and rely on shallow heuristics to solve MWPs. In this paper, we look at this issue and argue that the cause is a…

2021

Flocking and Collision Avoidance for a Dynamic Squad of Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

IROS 2021poster

Developing the flocking behavior for a dynamic squad of fixed-wing UAVs is still a challenge due to kinematic complexity and environmental uncertainty. In this paper, we deal with the decentralized flocking and collision avoidance problem through deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Specifically, we f…

Cited by 13SourceScholar