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Chengdong Ma

11 accepted papers

2026

Vulnerable Agent Identification in Large-Scale Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

Partial agent failure becomes inevitable when systems scale up, making it crucial to identify the subset of agents whose failure causes worst-case system performance degradations. We study this Vulnerable Agent Identification (VAI) problem in large-scale multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). We…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Amulet: ReAlignment During Test Time for Personalized Preference Adaptation of LLMs

ICLR 2025poster

How to align large language models (LLMs) with user preferences from a static general dataset has been frequently studied. However, user preferences are usually personalized, changing, and diverse. This leads to the problem that the actual user preferences often do not coincide with those trained by…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

EconGym: A Scalable AI Testbed with Diverse Economic Tasks

NeurIPS 2025poster

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool for economic research, enabling large-scale simulation and policy optimization. However, applying AI effectively requires simulation platforms for scalable training and evaluation—yet existing environments remain limited to simplified, narrowly…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Empirical Study on Robustness and Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

In cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), it is a common practice to tune hyperparameters in ideal simulated environments to maximize cooperative performance. However, policies tuned for cooperation often fail to maintain robustness and resilience under real-world uncertainties. Buil…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion policies are widely adopted in complex visuomotor tasks for their ability to capture multimodal action distributions. However, the multiple sampling steps required for action generation significantly harm real-time inference efficiency, which limits their applicability in real-time decisio…

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2025

Magnetic Preference Optimization: Achieving Last-iterate Convergence for Language Model Alignment

ICLR 2025poster

Self-play methods have demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing model capabilities across various domains. In the context of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), self-play not only boosts Large Language Model (LLM) performance but also overcomes the limitations of traditional Bradl…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Designing adaptive mechanisms to align individual and collective interests remains a central challenge in artificial social intelligence. Existing methods often struggle with modeling heterogeneous agents possessing persistent latent traits (e.g., skills, preferences) and dealing with complex multi-…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Towards Efficient Collaboration via Graph Modeling in Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2025technical

In multi-agent reinforcement learning, a commonly considered paradigm is centralized training with decentralized execution. However, in this framework, decentralized execution restricts the development of coordinated policies due to the local observation limitation. In this paper, we consider the co…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

World Models Should Prioritize the Unification of Physical and Social Dynamics

NeurIPS 2025poster

World models, which explicitly learn environmental dynamics to lay the foundation for planning, reasoning, and decision-making, are rapidly advancing in predicting both physical dynamics and aspects of social behavior, yet predominantly in separate silos. This division results in a systemic failure…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Panacea: Pareto Alignment via Preference Adaptation for LLMs

NeurIPS 2024poster

Current methods for large language model alignment typically use scalar human preference labels. However, this convention tends to oversimplify the multi-dimensional and heterogeneous nature of human preferences, leading to reduced expressivity and even misalignment. This paper presents Panacea, an…

Cited by 32SourcePDFScholar
2022

Scalable Model-based Policy Optimization for Decentralized Networked Systems

IROS 2022poster

Reinforcement learning algorithms require a large amount of samples; this often limits their real-world applications on even simple tasks. Such a challenge is more outstanding in multi-agent tasks, as each step of operation is more costly, requiring communications or shifting or resources. This work…

Cited by 10SourcecodeScholar