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Ruochen Jiao

10 accepted papers

2026

SFT Doesn’t Always Hurt General Capabilities: Revisiting Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning in LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on domain-specific datasets is a common approach to adapt Large Language Models (LLMs) to specialized tasks but is often believed to degrade their general capabilities. In this work, we revisit this trade-off and present both empirical and theoretical insights. First, we…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Shop-R1: Rewarding LLMs to Simulate Human Behavior in Online Shopping via Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential in generating ‘believable human-like’ behavior in web environments. Prior work has explored augmenting training data with LLM-synthesized rationales and applying supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to enhance reasoning ability, which…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in real-world decision-making tasks for embodied artificial intelligence, especially when fine-tuned to leverage their inherent common sense and reasoning abilities while being tailored to specific applications. However, this fine-tuning pr…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2024

Kinematics-aware Trajectory Generation and Prediction with Latent Stochastic Differential Modeling

IROS 2024poster

Trajectory generation and trajectory prediction are two critical tasks in autonomous driving, which generate various trajectories for testing during development and predict the trajectories of surrounding vehicles during operation, respectively. In recent years, emerging data-driven deep learning-ba…

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2023

Efficient Stuttering Event Detection Using Siamese Networks

ICASSP 2023accepted

Speech disfluency research is pivotal to accommodating atypical speakers in mainstream conversational technology. However, the lack of publicly available labeled and unlabeled datasets is a significant bottleneck to such research. While many works use pseudo dysfluency data with proxy labels and for…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Enforcing Hard Constraints with Soft Barriers: Safe Reinforcement Learning in Unknown Stochastic Environments

ICML 2023poster

It is quite challenging to ensure the safety of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in an unknown and stochastic environment under hard constraints that require the system state not to reach certain specified unsafe regions. Many popular safe RL methods such as those based on the Constrained Markov D…

Cited by 54SourcePDFScholar
2023

Learning Representation for Anomaly Detection of Vehicle Trajectories

IROS 2023poster

Predicting the future trajectories of surrounding vehicles based on their history trajectories is a critical task in autonomous driving. However, when small crafted perturbations are introduced to those history trajectories, the resulting anomalous (or adversarial) trajectories can significantly mis…

Cited by 24SourceScholar
2023

Safety-Assured Speculative Planning with Adaptive Prediction

IROS 2023poster

Recently significant progress has been made in vehicle prediction and planning algorithms for autonomous driving. However, it remains quite challenging for an autonomous vehicle to plan its trajectory in complex scenarios when it is difficult to accurately predict its surrounding vehicles' behaviors…

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2023

Semi-supervised Semantics-guided Adversarial Training for Robust Trajectory Prediction

ICCV 2023poster

Predicting the trajectories of surrounding objects is a critical task for self-driving vehicles and many other autonomous systems. Recent works demonstrate that adversarial attacks on trajectory prediction, where small crafted perturbations are introduced to history trajectories, may significantly m…

Cited by 21PDFcodeScholar
2022

TAE: A Semi-supervised Controllable Behavior-aware Trajectory Generator and Predictor

IROS 2022poster

Trajectory generation and prediction are two in-terwoven tasks that play important roles in planner evaluation and decision making for intelligent vehicles. Most existing methods focus on one of the two and are optimized to directly output the final generated/predicted trajectories, which only conta…

Cited by 28SourceScholar