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Ling Yang

49 accepted papers

2026

AgentSelect: Benchmark for Narrative Query-to-Agent Recommendation

ICML 2026poster

LLM agents are rapidly becoming the practical interface for task automation, yet the ecosystem lacks a principled way to \emph{choose} among an exploding space of deployable configurations. Existing LLM leaderboards and tool/agent benchmarks evaluate components in isolation and remain fragmented acr…

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2026

AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

Agentic reinforcement learning has advanced large language models (LLMs) to reason through long chain-of-thought trajectories while interleaving external tool use. Existing approaches assume a fixed inventory of tools, which limits the adaptability of LLM agents to new or evolving toolsets. We prese…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Circular-DPO: Aligning Multi-Stage 3D Generative Models via Preference Feedback Loop

CVPR 2026

Multi-stage generative models have shown great promise in 3D content creation due to focused generation of structure or texture in different stages, but their outputs often fail to align with human preferences. The key bottleneck to apply alignment methods is the presence of non-differentiable opera

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Diffusion Distillation with Direct Preference Optimization for Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion

AAAI 2026technical

The slow sampling speed of diffusion models hinders their application in 3D LiDAR scene completion. To address this, we propose Distillation-DPO, a novel framework that accelerates sampling through score distillation while simultaneously enhancing generation quality via preference alignment. Disti

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2026

Generative Universal Verifier as Multimodal Meta-Reasoner

ICLR 2026oral

We introduce *Generative Universal Verifier*, a novel concept and plugin designed for next-generation multimodal reasoning in vision-language models and unified multimodal models, providing the fundamental capability of reflection and refinement on visual outcomes during the reasoning and generation…

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2026

Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems

ICML 2026spotlight

Multi-agent systems (MAS) extend large language models (LLMs) from independent single-model reasoning to coordinative system-level intelligence. While existing LLM agents depend on text-based mediation for reasoning and communication, we take a step forward by enabling models to collaborate directly…

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2026

Mean Flow Distillation: Robust and Stable Distillation for Flow Matching Models

ICML 2026poster

Flow Matching models have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of generative tasks. However, their reliance on ODE-based iterative sampling incurs substantial computational overhead, which limits their applicability in real-time scenes. While distillation is a promising solution, exis…

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2026

Multimodal Meta-Verifier with Explicit Structured Recalibration

ICML 2026poster

Visual outcomes are increasingly central to multimodal large language models, making reliable and fine-grained verification essential for scaling generalist foundation models. In this work, we investigate ***multimodal meta-verification***, which leverages verifier-generated rationales rather than d…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

On Path to Multimodal Historical Reasoning: HistBench and HistAgent

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to remarkable progress across various domains, yet their capabilities in the humanities, particularly history, remain underexplored. Historical reasoning poses unique challenges for LLMs, involving multimodal source interpretation, temporal in…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Parallel Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation

ICLR 2026poster

While thinking-aware generation aims to improve performance on complex tasks, we identify a critical failure mode where existing sequential, autoregressive approaches can paradoxically degrade performance due to error propagation. To systematically analyze this issue, we propose ParaBench, a new be…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

RLAnything: Forge Environment, Policy, and Reward Model in Completely Dynamic RL System

ICML 2026poster

The quality of both the environment and the reward model fundamentally governs the effectiveness of reinforcement learning. Accordingly, we propose RLAnything, a reinforcement learning framework that dynamically optimizes each component through closed-loop optimization, amplifying learning signals a…

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2026

Revolutionizing Reinforcement Learning Framework for Diffusion Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

The extension of diffusion models to language tasks has shown promising results, but their post-training methods remain largely unexplored. We highlight the importance of aligning a diffusion language model’s preference-inference trajectory with its post-training objective. To this end, we propose T…

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2026

UltraViCo: Breaking Extrapolation Limits in Video Diffusion Transformers

ICLR 2026poster

Despite advances, video diffusion transformers still struggle to generalize beyond their training length, a challenge we term video length extrapolation. We identify two failure modes: model-specific periodic content repetition and a universal quality degradation. Prior works attempt to solve repeti…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

CURE: Co-Evolving Coders and Unit Testers via Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Mathematical reasoning in large language models has been successfully incentivized through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, leading to improved one-shot precision. In this work, we turn our focus to the coding domain. Beyond one-shot precision, we highlight unit test generation as ano…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Distilling Diffusion Models to Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completion

ICCV 2025poster

Diffusion models have been applied to 3D LiDAR scene completion due to their strong training stability and high completion quality. However, the slow sampling speed limits the practical application of diffusion-based scene completion models since autonomous vehicles require an efficient perception o…

2025

Distribution Backtracking Builds A Faster Convergence Trajectory for Diffusion Distillation

ICLR 2025poster

Accelerating the sampling speed of diffusion models remains a significant challenge. Recent score distillation methods distill a heavy teacher model into a student generator to achieve one-step generation, which is optimized by calculating the difference between two score functions on the samples ge…

2025

Efficient Pretraining Data Selection for Language Models via Multi-Actor Collaboration

ACL 2025long

Efficient data selection is crucial to accelerate the pretraining of language model (LMs). While various methods have been proposed to enhance data efficiency, limited research has addressed the inherent conflicts between these approaches to achieve optimal data selection for LM pretraining. To tack…

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2025

EmoAgent: Assessing and Safeguarding Human-AI Interaction for Mental Health Safety

EMNLP 2025

The rise of LLM-driven AI characters raises safety concerns, particularly for vulnerable human users with psychological disorders. To address these risks, we propose EmoAgent, a multi-agent AI framework designed to evaluate and mitigate mental health hazards in human-AI interactions. EmoAgent compri

2025

GlycanML: A Multi-Task and Multi-Structure Benchmark for Glycan Machine Learning

ICLR 2025poster

Glycans are basic biomolecules and perform essential functions within living organisms. The rapid increase of functional glycan data provides a good opportunity for machine learning solutions to glycan understanding. However, there still lacks a standard machine learning benchmark for glycan propert…

2025

HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

The remarkable success of the autoregressive paradigm has made significant advancement in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), with powerful models like Show-o, Transfusion and Emu3 made notable strides in unified image understanding and generation. For the first time, we uncover a common pheno…

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2025

IPDreamer: Appearance-Controllable 3D Object Generation with Complex Image Prompts

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advances in 3D generation have been remarkable, with methods such as DreamFusion leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion-based models to guide 3D object generation. These methods enable the synthesis of detailed and photorealistic textured objects. However, the appearance of 3D objects…

2025

IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Advanced diffusion models like Stable Diffusion 3, Omost, and FLUX have made notable strides in compositional text-to-image generation. However, these methods typically exhibit distinct strengths for compositional generation, with some excelling in handling attribute binding and others in spatial re…

2025

MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

We introduce MMaDA, a novel class of multimodal diffusion foundation models designed to achieve superior performance across diverse domains such as textual reasoning, multimodal understanding, and text-to-image generation. The approach is distinguished by three key innovations: (i) MMaDA adopts a un…

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2025

ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs

NeurIPS 2025poster

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for supervising intermediate reasoning steps in large language models (LLMs). Previous PRMs are primarily trained on model final output responses and struggle to evaluate intermediate thinking trajectories robustly, especiall…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Rectified Diffusion: Straightness Is Not Your Need in Rectified Flow

ICLR 2025poster

Diffusion models have greatly improved visual generation but are hindered by slow generation speed due to the computationally intensive nature of solving generative ODEs. Rectified flow, a widely recognized solution, improves generation speed by straightening the ODE path. Its key components includ…

2025

SuperCorrect: Advancing Small LLM Reasoning with Thought Template Distillation and Self-Correction

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, DeepSeek-R1, and ReasonFlux have shown significant improvements in various reasoning tasks. However, smaller LLMs still struggle with complex mathematical reasoning because they fail to effectively identify and correct reasoning errors. Recent reflection-base…

2025

Temporal Consistency for LLM Reasoning Process Error Identification

EMNLP 2025

Verification is crucial for effective mathematical reasoning. We present a new temporal consistency method where verifiers iteratively refine their judgments based on the previous assessment. Unlike one-round verification or multi-model debate approaches, our method leverages consistency in a sequen

2025

Towards Scalable and Deep Graph Neural Networks via Noise Masking

AAAI 2025technical

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in many graph mining tasks. However, scaling them to large graphs is challenging due to the high computational and storage costs of repeated feature propagation and non-linear transformation during training. One commonly…

2025

Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Large language models are typically adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning on domain-specific data. While standard fine-tuning focuses on minimizing generation loss to optimize model parameters, we take a deeper step by retaining and leveraging the model’s own learning signals, a…

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2025

TreeBoN: Enhancing Inference-Time Alignment with Speculative Tree-Search and Best-of-N Sampling

EMNLP 2025

Inference-time alignment enhances the performance of large language models without requiring additional training or fine-tuning but presents challenges due to balancing computational efficiency with high-quality output. Best-of-N (BoN) sampling, as a simple yet powerful approach, generates multiple

2024

Adaptive Video Watermarking with Perceptual Guarantee and Efficiency Optimization

ICASSP 2024accepted

Existing video watermarking embeds robust watermarks in each frame of the video for copyright protection and tracking. However, just as any content written on a blank paper is easily perceived, embedding watermarks in the texture-poor frames impairs imperceptibility. Common geometric attacks such as…

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2024

Binding-Adaptive Diffusion Models for Structure-Based Drug Design

AAAI 2024technical

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to generate 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets. Existing 3D deep generative models including diffusion models have shown great promise for SBDD. However, it is complex to capture the essential protein-ligand interactions exactly in 3D sp…

2024

Buffer of Thoughts: Thought-Augmented Reasoning with Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

We introduce Buffer of Thoughts (BoT), a novel and versatile thought-augmented reasoning approach for enhancing accuracy, efficiency and robustness of large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we propose meta-buffer to store a series of informative high-level thoughts, namely thought-template, dis…

2024

Cross-Modal Contextualized Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Visual Generation and Editing

ICLR 2024poster

Conditional diffusion models have exhibited superior performance in high-fidelity text-guided visual generation and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing text-guided visual diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating text-visual relationships exclusively into the reverse process, often disregardin…

2024

Distribution-Aware Data Expansion with Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

The scale and quality of a dataset significantly impact the performance of deep models. However, acquiring large-scale annotated datasets is both a costly and time-consuming endeavor. To address this challenge, dataset expansion technologies aim to automatically augment datasets, unlocking the full…

2024

Exploring Consistent Spatio-Temporal Distortion and Stable 3-D DCT Coefficients for Robust Blind Video Watermarking

ICASSP 2024accepted

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and video applications, robust video watermarking technology has become a focal area of research for protecting and tracking intellectual property rights in digital media. An important characteristic of video is that it has both spatial and temporal prop…

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2024

Interaction-based Retrieval-augmented Diffusion Models for Protein-specific 3D Molecule Generation

ICML 2024poster

Generating ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets via generative models holds substantial promise for advancing structure-based drug design. Existing methods generate molecules from scratch without reference or template ligands, which poses challenges in model optimization and may yi…

2024

Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs

ICML 2024poster

Diffusion models have exhibit exceptional performance in text-to-image generation and editing. However, existing methods often face challenges when handling complex text prompts that involve multiple objects with multiple attributes and relationships. In this paper, we propose a brand new training-f…

2024

Protein-Ligand Interaction Prior for Binding-aware 3D Molecule Diffusion Models

ICLR 2024poster

Generating 3D ligand molecules that bind to specific protein targets via diffusion models has shown great promise for structure-based drug design. The key idea is to disrupt molecules into noise through a fixed forward process and learn its reverse process to generate molecules from noise in a denoi…

2024

RealCompo: Balancing Realism and Compositionality Improves Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable advancements in text-to-image generation. However, existing models still have many difficulties when faced with multiple-object compositional generation. In this paper, we propose ***RealCompo***, a new *training-free* and *transferred-friendly* text-to-imag…

2024

Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models for Time Series Forecasting

NeurIPS 2024poster

While time series diffusion models have received considerable focus from many recent works, the performance of existing models remains highly unstable. Factors limiting time series diffusion models include insufficient time series datasets and the absence of guidance. To address these limitations, w…

2024

Structure-Guided Adversarial Training of Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in various generative applications. While existing models focus on minimizing a weighted sum of denoising score matching losses for data distribution modeling their training primarily emphasizes instance-level optimization overlooking valuable…

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2024

VQGraph: Rethinking Graph Representation Space for Bridging GNNs and MLPs

ICLR 2024poster

GNN-to-MLP distillation aims to utilize knowledge distillation (KD) to learn computationally-efficient multi-layer perceptron (student MLP) on graph data by mimicking the output representations of teacher GNN. Existing methods mainly make the MLP to mimic the GNN predictions over a few class labels.…

2024

VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated great success in text-to-video (T2V) generation. However, existing methods may face challenges when handling complex (long) video generation scenarios that involve multiple objects or dynamic changes in object numbers. To address these limitations, we propose Video…

2023

Improving Diffusion-Based Image Synthesis with Context Prediction

NeurIPS 2023poster

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models, and have dramatically promoted image generation with unprecedented quality and diversity. Existing diffusion models mainly try to reconstruct input image from a corrupted one with a pixel-wise or feature-wise constraint along spatial axes. Howev…

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2022

Omni-Granular Ego-Semantic Propagation for Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning

ICML 2022spotlight

Unsupervised/self-supervised graph representation learning is critical for downstream node- and graph-level classification tasks. Global structure of graphs helps discriminating representations and existing methods mainly utilize the global structure by imposing additional supervisions. However, the…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2022

Unsupervised Time-Series Representation Learning with Iterative Bilinear Temporal-Spectral Fusion

ICML 2022spotlight

Unsupervised/self-supervised time series representation learning is a challenging problem because of its complex dynamics and sparse annotations. Existing works mainly adopt the framework of contrastive learning with the time-based augmentation techniques to sample positives and negatives for contra…

Cited by 151SourcePDFScholar
2020

DPGN: Distribution Propagation Graph Network for Few-Shot Learning

CVPR 2020poster

Most graph-network-based meta-learning approaches model instance-level relation of examples. We extend this idea further to explicitly model the distribution-level relation of one example to all other examples in a 1-vs-N manner. We propose a novel approach named distribution propagation graph netwo…

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