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Jiayu Yao

5 accepted papers

2026

Learning-To-Measure: In-Context Active Feature Acquisition

ICML 2026poster

Active feature acquisition (AFA) is a sequential decision-making problem where the goal is to improve model performance for test instances by adaptively selecting which features to acquire. In practice, AFA methods often learn from retrospective data with systematic missingness in the features and l…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Who is in the Spotlight: The Hidden Bias Undermining Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation

EMNLP 2025

Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have become essential in knowledge-intensive and open-domain tasks. As retrieval complexity increases, ensuring the robustness of these systems is critical. However, current RAG models are highly sensitive to the order in which evidence is pres

2023

Performance Bounds for Model and Policy Transfer in Hidden-parameter MDPs

ICLR 2023poster

In the Hidden-Parameter MDP (HiP-MDP) framework, a family of reinforcement learning tasks is generated by varying hidden parameters specifying the dynamics and reward function for each individual task. HiP-MDP is a natural model for families of tasks in which meta- and lifelong-reinforcement learnin…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2018

Structured Variational Learning of Bayesian Neural Networks with Horseshoe Priors

ICML 2018oral

Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) have recently received increasing attention for their ability to provide well-calibrated posterior uncertainties. However, model selection—even choosing the number of nodes—remains an open question. Recent work has proposed the use of a horseshoe prior over node pre-a…

Cited by 97SourcePDFScholar