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Shulan Ruan

7 accepted papers

2026

From Observations to Events: Event-Aware World Models for Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

While model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) improves sample efficiency by learning world models from raw observations, existing methods struggle to generalize across structurally similar scenes and remain vulnerable to spurious variations such as textures or color shifts. From a cognitive scienc…

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2025

Refining Sentence Embedding Model through Ranking Sentences Generation with Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Sentence embedding is essential for many NLP tasks, with contrastive learning methods achieving strong performance using annotated datasets like NLI. Yet, the reliance on manual labels limits scalability. Recent studies leverage large language models (LLMs) to generate sentence pairs, reducing annot…

2025

SentiFormer: Metadata Enhanced Transformer for Image Sentiment Analysis

ICASSP 2025accepted

As more and more internet users post images online to express their daily emotions, image sentiment analysis has attracted increasing attention. Recently, researchers generally tend to design different neural networks to extract visual features from images for sentiment analysis. Despite the signifi…

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2024

Predictive Accuracy-Based Active Learning for Medical Image Segmentation

IJCAI 2024poster

Active learning is considered a viable solution to alleviate the contradiction between the high dependency of deep learning-based segmentation methods on annotated data and the expensive pixel-level annotation cost of medical images. However, most existing methods suffer from unreliable uncertainty…

2023

Actor-Multi-Scale Context Bidirectional Higher Order Interactive Relation Network for Spatial-Temporal Action Localization

IJCAI 2023poster

The key to video action detection lies in the understanding of interaction between persons and background objects in a video. Current methods usually employ object detectors to extract objects directly or use grid features to represent objects in the environment, which underestimate the great potent…

2021

DAE-GAN: Dynamic Aspect-Aware GAN for Text-to-Image Synthesis

ICCV 2021poster

Text-to-image synthesis refers to generating an image from a given text description, the key goal of which lies in photo realism and semantic consistency. Previous methods usually generate an initial image with sentence embedding and then refine it with fine-grained word embedding. Despite the signi…

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2021

Making the Relation Matters: Relation of Relation Learning Network for Sentence Semantic Matching

AAAI 2021technical

Sentence semantic matching is one of the fundamental tasks in natural language processing, which requires an agent to determine the semantic relation among input sentences. Recently, deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance in this area, especially BERT. Despite the effectiveness of…