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Shaokang Dong

8 accepted papers

2026

What Makes a Good Speech Tokenizer for LLM-Centric Speech Generation? A Systematic Study

AAAI 2026technical

Speech-language models (SLMs) offer a promising path toward unifying speech and text understanding and generation. However, challenges remain in achieving effective cross-modal alignment and high-quality speech generation. In this work, we systematically investigate the role of speech tokenizer desi

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2025

Beyond Mandatory Federations: Balancing Egoism, Utilitarianism and Egalitarianism in Mixed-Motive Games

AAAI 2025technical

In the field of mixed-motive games, extensive multi-agent learning studies have explored the balance between egoism (individual interest), utilitarianism (collective interest), and egalitarianism (fairness). Traditional approaches often rely on manually designed reward functions, social norms, and a…

2025

TASO: Task-Aligned Sparse Optimization for Parameter-Efficient Model Adaptation

EMNLP 2025

LoRA has become one of the most widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, numerous studies have shown that LoRA often introduces substantial parameter redundancy, which not only increases the number of trainable parameters but also hinders

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2025

Towards Empowerment Gain through Causal Structure Learning in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2025poster

In Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL), incorporating causal structures into dynamics models provides agents with a structured understanding of the environments, enabling efficient decision. Empowerment as an intrinsic motivation enhances the ability of agents to actively control their enviro…

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2024

Multi-Agent Exploration via Self-Learning and Social Learning

ICASSP 2024accepted

Self-learning and social learning stand as two pivotal constituents in multi-agent exploration. Inspired by the fact that animals and humans explore unfamiliar environments to learn survival skills by training themselves using unlabeled data and replicating others’ successful experiences, we propose…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Multi-Agent Sparse Interaction Modeling is an Anomaly Detection Problem

ICASSP 2024accepted

Most real-world multi-agent tasks exhibit the characteristic of sparse interaction, wherein agents interact with each other in a limited number of crucial states while largely acting independently. Effectively modeling the sparse interaction and leveraging the learned interaction structure to instru…

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2024

Optimistic Value Instructors for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2024technical

In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, decentralized agents hold the promise of overcoming the combinatorial explosion of joint action space and enabling greater scalability. However, they are susceptible to a game-theoretic pathology called relative overgeneralization that shadows the o…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2020

Consistent MetaReg: Alleviating Intra-task Discrepancy for Better Meta-knowledge

IJCAI 2020poster

In the few-shot learning scenario, the data-distribution discrepancy between training data and test data in a task usually exists due to the limited data. However, most existing meta-learning approaches seldom consider this intra-task discrepancy in the meta-training phase which might deteriorate th…