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Fan Nie

11 accepted papers

2026

DSGym: A Standardized and Holistic Framework for Advancing Data Science Agents

ICML 2026poster

Data science agents promise to accelerate discovery and insight-generation by turning data into executable analyses and findings. Yet existing data science benchmarks fall short due to fragmented evaluation interfaces that make cross-benchmark comparison difficult, narrow task coverage and a lack of…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

When Visualizing is the First Step to Reasoning: MIRA, a Benchmark for Visual Chain-of-Thought

CVPR 2026

We propose MIRA (Multimodal Imagination for Reasoning Assessment), a new benchmark designed to evaluate models in scenarios where generating intermediate visual images is essential for successful reasoning. Unlike traditional Chain-of-thought (CoT) methods that rely solely on text, tasks in MIRA req

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

EvoLM: In Search of Lost Language Model Training Dynamics

NeurIPS 2025oral

Modern language model (LM) training has been divided into multiple stages, making it difficult for downstream developers to evaluate the impact of design choices made at each stage. We present EvoLM, a model suite that enables systematic and transparent analysis of LMs' training dynamics across pre-…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

FactTest: Factuality Testing in Large Language Models with Finite-Sample and Distribution-Free Guarantees

ICML 2025poster

The propensity of large language models (LLMs) to generate hallucinations and non-factual content undermines their reliability in high-stakes domains, where rigorous control over Type I errors (the conditional probability of incorrectly classifying hallucinations as truthful content) is essential. D…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Generalizing Motion Planners with Mixture of Experts for Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2025

Large real-world driving datasets have sparked significant research into various aspects of learning-based motion planners for autonomous driving. These include data augmentation, model architecture, reward design, training strategies, and planner pipelines. In this paper, we review and benchmark pr

Cited by 23SourcecodeScholar
2024

Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving with Hierarchical Latent Skills

ICRA 2024poster

Learning-based vehicle planning is receiving increasing attention with the emergence of diverse driving simulators and large-scale driving datasets. While offline reinforcement learning (RL) is well suited for these safety-critical tasks, it still struggles to plan over extended periods. In this wor…

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2024

Learning Divergence Fields for Shift-Robust Graph Representations

ICML 2024poster

Real-world data generation often involves certain geometries (e.g., graphs) that induce instance-level interdependence. This characteristic makes the generalization of learning models more difficult due to the intricate interdependent patterns that impact data-generative distributions and can vary f…

2024

Uncertainty-Aware Decision Transformer for Stochastic Driving Environments

CoRL 2024poster

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables policy learning without active interactions, making it especially appealing for self-driving tasks. Recent successes of Transformers inspire casting offline RL as sequence modeling, which, however, fails in stochastic environments with incorrect assumption…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2023

SGFormer: Simplifying and Empowering Transformers for Large-Graph Representations

NeurIPS 2023poster

Learning representations on large-sized graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature involved in massive data points. Transformers, as an emerging class of foundation encoders for graph-structured data, have shown promising performance on small graphs due to its global atte…

2022

GraphDE: A Generative Framework for Debiased Learning and Out-of-Distribution Detection on Graphs

NeurIPS 2022accept

Despite the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) for graph representation learning, they are generally built on the (unreliable) i.i.d. assumption across training and testing data. However, real-world graph data are universally comprised of outliers in training set and out-of-distribut…