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Chengqian Gao

4 accepted papers

2025

Gene Regulatory Network Inference in the Presence of Selection Bias and Latent Confounders

NeurIPS 2025poster

Gene regulatory network inference (GRNI) aims to discover how genes causally regulate each other from gene expression data. It is well-known that statistical dependencies in observed data do not necessarily imply causation, as spurious dependencies may arise from *latent confounders*, such as non-co…

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2025

Principled Data Selection for Alignment: The Hidden Risks of Difficult Examples

ICML 2025poster

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) often assumes that using more clean data yields better outcomes, overlooking the match between model capacity and example difficulty. Challenging this, we propose a new principle: *Preference data vary in difficulty, and overly difficult examples hinder…

2025

Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning, yet progress towards broader capabilities is limited by the availability of high-quality, multi-domain datasets. This work introduces \ours, a 92K RL-for-reasoning dataset designed to address this gap, c…

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2024

Hard-Thresholding Meets Evolution Strategies in Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2024poster

Evolution Strategies (ES) have emerged as a competitive alternative for model-free reinforcement learning, showcasing exemplary performance in tasks like Mujoco and Atari. Notably, they shine in scenarios with imperfect reward functions, making them invaluable for real-world applications where dense…