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Chentao Cao

6 accepted papers

2026

Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

RL with verifiable rewards can substantially improve LLM reasoning, yet standard GRPO-style training often uses uniform sampling and near-uniform weighting, leading to inefficient computation allocation. We study GRPO by tracking token log-probabilities, group-normalized advantages, and induced toke…

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2025

DualCnst: Enhancing Zero-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection via Text-Image Consistency in Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have shown promising zero-shot out-of-distribution (OOD) detection capabilities by leveraging semantic similarities between input images and textual labels. However, most existing approaches focus solely on expanding the label space in the text…

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2025

From Debate to Equilibrium: Belief‑Driven Multi‑Agent LLM Reasoning via Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

ICML 2025poster

Multi-agent frameworks can substantially boost the reasoning power of large language models (LLMs), but they typically incur heavy computational costs and lack convergence guarantees. To overcome these challenges, we recast multi-LLM coordination as an incomplete-information game and seek a Bayesian…

2025

Noisy Test-Time Adaptation in Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to address distribution shifts between source and target data by relying solely on target data during testing. In open-world scenarios, models often encounter noisy samples, i.e., samples outside the in-distribution (ID) label space. Leveraging the zero-shot capabilit…

2024

Envisioning Outlier Exposure by Large Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection

ICML 2024poster

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is essential when deploying machine learning models in open-world scenarios. Zero-shot OOD detection, requiring no training on in-distribution (ID) data, has been possible with the advent of vision-language models like CLIP. Existing methods build a text-b…