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Jie-Jing Shao

17 accepted papers

2026

ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint Validation for Language Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Travel planning stands out among real-world applications of \emph{Language Agents} because it couples significant practical demand with a rigorous constraint-satisfaction challenge. However, existing benchmarks primarily operate on a slot-filling paradigm, restricting agents to synthetic queries wit…

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2026

Lifting Traces to Logic: Programmatic Skill Induction with Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

ICML 2026poster

Foundation model-driven agents often struggle with long-horizon planning due to the transient nature of purely prompting-based reasoning. While existing skill induction methods mitigate this by distilling experience into state-blind parameterized scripts, they fail to capture the conditional logic r…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Pianist Transformer: Towards Expressive Piano Performance Rendering via Scalable Self-Supervised Pre-Training

ICML 2026poster

Existing methods for expressive music performance rendering rely on supervised learning over small labeled datasets, which limits scaling of both data volume and model size, despite the availability of vast unlabeled music, as in vision and language. To address this gap, we introduce Pianist Transfo…

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2026

Quantitative Estimation of Target Task Performance from Unsupervised Pretext Task in Semi/Self-Supervised Learning

ICML 2026poster

The effectiveness of unlabeled data in Semi/Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) depends on appropriate assumptions for specific scenarios, thereby enabling the selection of beneficial unsupervised pretext tasks. However, existing research has paid limited attention to assumptions in SSL, resulting in pra…

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2026

Stabilizing Recurrent Dynamics for Test-Time Scalable Latent Reasoning in Looped Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Looped Language Models (LoopLMs) enable efficient latent reasoning through depth recurrence, yet exhibit unreliable test-time scaling behavior: performance often peaks at a certain iteration depth and then collapses with further recurrence. Through latent dynamics analysis, we find an inherent trade…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Step Back to Leap Forward: Self-Backtracking for Symbolic Reasoning and Planning in Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Although autoregressive language models demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, their effectiveness in symbolic reasoning and decision-making scenarios remains constrained. Recent research indicates that training language models to emulate symbolic search algorithms (e.g. depth-fi

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Breaking the Self-Evaluation Barrier: Reinforced Neuro-Symbolic Planning with Large Language Models

IJCAI 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in language understanding and commonsense reasoning, yet they often struggle with constraint satisfaction in planning problems. Previous studies relying on test-time improvement with self-evaluation fail to address this limitatio

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2025

Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Towards Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models

IJCAI 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results across various tasks, yet their reasoning capabilities remain a fundamental challenge. Developing AI systems with strong reasoning capabilities is regarded as a crucial milestone in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and has

2025

Verification Learning: Make Unsupervised Neuro-Symbolic System Feasible

ICML 2025poster

The current Neuro-Symbolic (NeSy) Learning paradigm suffers from an over-reliance on labeled data, so if we completely disregard labels, it leads to less symbol information, a larger solution space, and more shortcuts—issues that current Nesy systems cannot resolve. This paper introduces a novel lea…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Analysis for Abductive Learning and Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts

ICML 2024poster

Abductive learning models (ABL) and neural-symbolic predictive models (NeSy) have been recently shown effective, as they allow us to infer labels that are consistent with some prior knowledge by reasoning over high-level concepts extracted from sub-symbolic inputs. However, their generalization abil…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

Long-Tail Learning with Foundation Model: Heavy Fine-Tuning Hurts

ICML 2024poster

The fine-tuning paradigm in addressing long-tail learning tasks has sparked significant interest since the emergence of foundation models. Nonetheless, how fine-tuning impacts performance in long-tail learning was not explicitly quantified. In this paper, we disclose that heavy fine-tuning may even…

2024

Safe Abductive Learning in the Presence of Inaccurate Rules

AAAI 2024technical

Integrating complementary strengths of raw data and logical rules to improve the learning generalization has been recently shown promising and effective, e.g., abductive learning is one generic framework that can learn the perception model from data and reason between rules simultaneously. However,…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2023

Bidirectional Adaptation for Robust Semi-Supervised Learning with Inconsistent Data Distributions

ICML 2023oral

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) suffers from severe performance degradation when labeled and unlabeled data come from inconsistent data distributions. However, there is still a lack of sufficient theoretical guidance on how to alleviate this problem. In this paper, we propose a general theoretical fr…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

LOG: Active Model Adaptation for Label-Efficient OOD Generalization

NeurIPS 2022accept

This work discusses how to achieve worst-case Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) generalization for a variety of distributions based on a relatively small labeling cost. The problem has broad applications, especially in non-i.i.d. open-world scenarios. Previous studies either rely on a large amount of labeli…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

Robust Semi-Supervised Learning when Not All Classes have Labels

NeurIPS 2022accept

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) provides a powerful framework for leveraging unlabeled data. Existing SSL typically requires all classes have labels. However, in many real-world applications, there may exist some classes that are difficult to label or newly occurred classes that cannot be labeled in…

Cited by 47SourcePDFScholar
2021

Towards Robust Model Reuse in the Presence of Latent Domains

IJCAI 2021poster

Model reuse tries to adapt well pre-trained models to a new target task, without access of raw data. It attracts much attention since it reduces the learning resources. Previous model reuse studies typically operate in a single-domain scenario, i.e., the target samples arise from one single domain.…