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Hong Lu

13 accepted papers

2026

QuestA: Expanding Reasoning Capacity in LLMs via Question Augmentation

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a central paradigm for training large language models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks. Yet recent studies question RL’s ability to incentivize reasoning capacity beyond the base model. This raises a key challenge: how can RL be adapted to solve harder reasoning p…

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2026

The Price Is Not Right: Neuro-Symbolic Methods Outperform VLAs on Structured Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks with Significantly Lower Energy Consumption

ICRA 2026poster

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently been proposed as a pathway toward generalist robotic policies capable of interpreting natural language and visual inputs to generate manipulation actions. However, their effectiveness and efficiency on structured, long-horizon manipulation tasks rema…

2025

Curiosity-Driven Imagination: Discovering Plan Operators and Learning Associated Policies for Open-World Adaptation

ICRA 2025

Adapting quickly to dynamic, uncertain environments—often called “open worlds” —remains a major challenge in robotics. Traditional Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) approaches struggle to cope with unforeseen changes, are data-inefficient when adapting, and do not leverage world models during learning

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2025

Few-Shot Neuro-Symbolic Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon Planning and Acting

CoRL 2025poster

Imitation learning enables intelligent systems to acquire complex behaviors with minimal supervision. However, existing methods often focus on short-horizon skills, require large datasets, and struggle to solve long-horizon tasks or generalize across task variations and distribution shifts. We propo…

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2025

General Compression Framework for Efficient Transformer Object Tracking

ICCV 2025poster

Previous works have attempted to improve tracking efficiency through lightweight architecture design or knowledge distillation from teacher models to compact student trackers. However, these solutions often sacrifice accuracy for speed to a great extent, and also have the problems of complex trainin…

2025

MoME: Mixture of Multi-Domain Experts for Multivariate Long-Term Series Forecasting

ICASSP 2025accepted

Time series forecasting is always important, with multivariate long-term series forecasting being its most challenging task. Here, the existing methods typically learn only in a single domain and focus on optimizing model structures, leading to incomplete information mining and imprecise predictions…

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2025

Parrot: A Training Pipeline Enhances Both Program CoT and Natural Language CoT for Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Natural language chain-of-thought (N-CoT) and Program chain-of-thought (P-CoT) have emerged as two primary paradigms for large language models (LLMs) to solve mathematical reasoning problems. Current research typically endeavors to achieve unidirectional enhancement: P-CoT enhanced N-CoT or N-CoT en

2024

Harnessing Joint Rain-/Detail-aware Representations to Eliminate Intricate Rains

ICLR 2024poster

Recent advances in image deraining have focused on training powerful models on mixed multiple datasets comprising diverse rain types and backgrounds. However, this approach tends to overlook the inherent differences among rainy images, leading to suboptimal results. To overcome this limitation, we f…

2021

Efficient End-to-End Audio Embeddings Generation for Audio Classification on Target Applications

ICASSP 2021accepted

We describe a general-purpose end-to-end audio embeddings generator that can be easily adapted to various acoustic scene and event classification applications. In contrast to many other models for audio classification, this end-to-end embeddings generator does not require a separate feature extracti…

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2021

Multi-Directional Convolution Networks with Spatial-Temporal Feature Pyramid Module for Action Recognition

ICASSP 2021accepted

Recent attempts show that factorizing 3D convolutional filters into separate spatial and temporal components brings impressive improvement in action recognition. However, traditional temporal convolution operating along the temporal dimension will aggregate unrelated features, since the feature maps…

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