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Jiani Huang

8 accepted papers

2025

ESCA: Contextualizing Embodied Agents via Scene-Graph Generation

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) are making rapid progress toward general-purpose embodied agents. However, existing MLLMs do not reliably capture fine-grained links between low-level visual features and high-level textual semantics, leading to weak grounding and inaccurate perception. To o…

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2025

LASER: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Learning Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs with Weak Supervision

ICLR 2025poster

Supervised approaches for learning spatio-temporal scene graphs (STSG) from video are greatly hindered due to their reliance on STSG-annotated videos, which are labor-intensive to construct at scale. Is it feasible to instead use readily available video captions as weak supervision? To address this…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

TurnaboutLLM: A Deductive Reasoning Benchmark from Detective Games

EMNLP 2025

This paper introduces TurnaboutLLM, a novel framework and dataset for evaluating the deductive reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging the interactive gameplay of detective games Ace Attorney and Danganronpa. The framework tasks LLMs with identifying contradictions between

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2024

Relational Programming with Foundational Models

AAAI 2024technical

Foundation models have vast potential to enable diverse AI applications. The powerful yet incomplete nature of these models has spurred a wide range of mechanisms to augment them with capabilities such as in-context learning, information retrieval, and code interpreting. We propose Vieira, a declara…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2023

Improved Logical Reasoning of Language Models via Differentiable Symbolic Programming

ACL 2023findings

Pre-trained large language models (LMs) struggle to perform logical reasoning reliably despite advances in scale and compositionality. In this work, we tackle this challenge through the lens of symbolic programming. We propose DSR-LM, a Differentiable Symbolic Reasoning framework where pre-trained L…

2021

ESA-VLAD: A Lightweight Network Based on Second-Order Attention and NetVLAD for Loop Closure Detection

RA-L 2021

Loop closure detection (LCD) is an important portion of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) because of its ability to reduce accumulated position errors. In this letter, we propose a novel loop closure detection algorithm named ESA-VLAD. The crucial part of ESA-VLAD is a redesigned network

Cited by 28SourceScholar
2021

Scallop: From Probabilistic Deductive Databases to Scalable Differentiable Reasoning

NeurIPS 2021poster

Deep learning and symbolic reasoning are complementary techniques for an intelligent system. However, principled combinations of these techniques have limited scalability, rendering them ill-suited for real-world applications. We propose Scallop, a system that builds upon probabilistic deductive dat…

Cited by 87SourcePDFScholar
2020

Generating Programmatic Referring Expressions via Program Synthesis

ICML 2020poster

Incorporating symbolic reasoning into machine learning algorithms is a promising approach to improve performance on learning tasks that require logical reasoning. We study the problem of generating a programmatic variant of referring expressions that we call referring relational programs. In particu…