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Duane S Boning

8 accepted papers

2025

REG: Rectified Gradient Guidance for Conditional Diffusion Models

ICML 2025poster

Guidance techniques are simple yet effective for improving conditional generation in diffusion models. Albeit their empirical success, the practical implementation of guidance diverges significantly from its theoretical motivation. In this paper, we reconcile this discrepancy by replacing the scaled…

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2025

RL Tango: Reinforcing Generator and Verifier Together for Language Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a compelling approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), where an LLM generator serves as a policy guided by a verifier (reward model). However, current RL post-training methods for LLMs typically use verifier…

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2024

Improving Neural ODE Training with Temporal Adaptive Batch Normalization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Neural ordinary differential equations (Neural ODEs) is a family of continuous-depth neural networks where the evolution of hidden states is governed by learnable temporal derivatives. We identify a significant limitation in applying traditional Batch Normalization (BN) to Neural ODEs, due to a fund…

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2023

Nominality Score Conditioned Time Series Anomaly Detection by Point/Sequential Reconstruction

NeurIPS 2023poster

Time series anomaly detection is challenging due to the complexity and variety of patterns that can occur. One major difficulty arises from modeling time-dependent relationships to find contextual anomalies while maintaining detection accuracy for point anomalies. In this paper, we propose a framewo…

2022

Learning from Multiple Annotator Noisy Labels via Sample-Wise Label Fusion

ECCV 2022poster

"Data lies at the core of modern deep learning. The impressive performance of supervised learning is built upon a base of massive accurately labeled data. However, in some real-world applications, accurate labeling might not be viable; instead, multiple noisy labels (instead of one accurate label) a…

2022

NeurOLight: A Physics-Agnostic Neural Operator Enabling Parametric Photonic Device Simulation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Optical computing has become emerging technology in next-generation efficient artificial intelligence (AI) due to its ultra-high speed and efficiency. Electromagnetic field simulation is critical to the design, optimization, and validation of photonic devices and circuits. However, costly numerical…

2021

Adjusting for Autocorrelated Errors in Neural Networks for Time Series

NeurIPS 2021poster

An increasing body of research focuses on using neural networks to model time series. A common assumption in training neural networks via maximum likelihood estimation on time series is that the errors across time steps are uncorrelated. However, errors are actually autocorrelated in many cases due…

2021

Robust Reinforcement Learning on State Observations with Learned Optimal Adversary

ICLR 2021poster

We study the robustness of reinforcement learning (RL) with adversarially perturbed state observations, which aligns with the setting of many adversarial attacks to deep reinforcement learning (DRL) and is also important for rolling out real-world RL agent under unpredictable sensing noise. With a f…