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Nikki Lijing Kuang

4 accepted papers

2026

LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate their reasoning ability through chain-of-thought (CoT) generation. However, LLM's autoregressive decoding may limit the ability to revisit and refine earlier tokens in a holistic manner, which can also lead to inefficient exploration for diverse solutions. I…

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2024

Log-concave Sampling from a Convex Body with a Barrier: a Robust and Unified Dikin Walk

NeurIPS 2024poster

We consider the problem of sampling from a $d$-dimensional log-concave distribution $\pi(\theta) \propto \exp(-f(\theta))$ for $L$-Lipschitz $f$, constrained to a convex body (described by $n$ hyperplanes) equipped with a barrier function, contained in a ball of radius $R$ with a $w$-warm start. W…

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2023

Langevin Thompson Sampling with Logarithmic Communication: Bandits and Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2023poster

Thompson sampling (TS) is widely used in sequential decision making due to its ease of use and appealing empirical performance. However, many existing analytical and empirical results for TS rely on restrictive assumptions on reward distributions, such as belonging to conjugate families, which limit…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2023

Posterior Sampling with Delayed Feedback for Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Recent studies in reinforcement learning (RL) have made significant progress by leveraging function approximation to alleviate the sample complexity hurdle for better performance. Despite the success, existing provably efficient algorithms typically rely on the accessibility of immediate feedback up…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar