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Qian Cao

7 accepted papers

2026

Evaluating Text Creativity across Diverse Domains: a Dataset and Large Language Model Evaluator

ICLR 2026poster

Creativity evaluation remains a challenging frontier for large language models (LLMs). Current evaluations heavily rely on inefficient and costly human judgments, hindering progress in enhancing machine creativity. While automated methods exist, ranging from psychological testing to heuristic- or pr…

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2026

Restoring Exploration after Post-Training: Latent Exploration Decoding for Large Reasoning Models

ICML 2026poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have recently achieved strong mathematical and code reasoning performance through Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training. However, we show that modern reasoning post-training induces an unintended exploration collapse: temperature-based sampling no longer increases p…

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2025

LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space

NeurIPS 2025poster

Image geolocalization is a fundamental yet challenging task, aiming at inferring the geolocation on Earth where an image is taken. State-of-the-art methods employ either grid-based classification or gallery-based image-location retrieval, whose spatial generalizability significantly suffers if the s…

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2024

BSharedRAG: Backbone Shared Retrieval-Augmented Generation for the E-commerce Domain

EMNLP 2024finding

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system is important in domains such as e-commerce, which has many long-tail entities and frequently updated information. Most existing works adopt separate modules for retrieval and generation, which may be suboptimal since the retrieval task and the generation t…

2024

Retaining Key Information under High Compression Ratios: Query-Guided Compressor for LLMs

ACL 2024long

The growing popularity of Large Language Models has sparked interest in context compression for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the performance of previous methods degrades dramatically as compression ratios increase, sometimes even falling to the closed-book level. This decline can be attrib…

2024

TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Spatial representation learning (SRL) aims at learning general-purpose neural network representations from various types of spatial data (e.g., points, polylines, polygons, networks, images, etc.) in their native formats. Learning good spatial representations is a fundamental problem for various dow…

2022

CoCoID: Learning Contrastive Representations and Compact Clusters for Semi-Supervised Intent Discovery

EMNLP 2022industry

Intent discovery is to mine new intents from user utterances, which are not present in the set of manually predefined intents. Previous approaches to intent discovery usually automatically cluster novel intents with prior knowledge from intent-labeled data in a semi-supervised way. In this paper, we…

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