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Qisen Yang

7 accepted papers

2026

Position: Bridge Human Interpretation and Machine Representation With Explicit Specification For Qualitative Data Analysis In LLM Era

ICML 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in qualitative data analysis, yet the field lacks a shared way to state what kinds of process LLM-based pipelines intend to produce. This position paper proposes an explicit specification perspective: separating meaning-making from modeling, and mak…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Boosting LLM Agents with Recursive Contemplation for Effective Deception Handling

ACL 2024findings

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to significant success in using LLMs as agents. Nevertheless, a common assumption that LLMs always process honest information neglects the widespread deceptive or misleading content in human and AI-generated material. This oversight might expo…

2024

PsychoGAT: A Novel Psychological Measurement Paradigm through Interactive Fiction Games with LLM Agents

ACL 2024long

Psychological measurement is essential for mental health, self-understanding, and personal development. Traditional methods, such as self-report scales and psychologist interviews, often face challenges with engagement and accessibility. While game-based and LLM-based tools have been explored to imp…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Action Preference Query

ICML 2023poster

Training practical agents usually involve offline and online reinforcement learning (RL) to balance the policy's performance and interaction costs. In particular, online fine-tuning has become a commonly used method to correct the erroneous estimates of out-of-distribution data learned in the offlin…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

Train Once, Get a Family: State-Adaptive Balances for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL) is a training paradigm that combines pre-training on a pre-collected dataset with fine-tuning in an online environment. However, the incorporation of online fine-tuning can intensify the well-known distributional shift problem. Existing solutions tackle…

2022

Efficient Knowledge Distillation from Model Checkpoints

NeurIPS 2022accept

Knowledge distillation is an effective approach to learn compact models (students) with the supervision of large and strong models (teachers). As empirically there exists a strong correlation between the performance of teacher and student models, it is commonly believed that a high performing teache…

2021

Towards Learning Spatially Discriminative Feature Representations

ICCV 2021poster

The backbone of traditional CNN classifier is generally considered as a feature extractor, followed by a linear layer which performs the classification. We propose a novel loss function, termed as CAM-loss, to constrain the embedded feature maps with the class activation maps (CAMs) which indicate t…

Cited by 28PDFScholar