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Shuo Ren

11 accepted papers

2026

Expert-level Leaf Cell Layout Generation via Preference-Optimized LLM

ICML 2026poster

In the field of integrated circuits, leaf cells are the basic units, serving as the fundamental building blocks (e.g., standard cells) that are widely reused in various VLSI designs, forming the basis for more complex circuits. Therefore, the design quality of leaf cell layouts significantly impacts…

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2025

KTAE: A Model-Free Algorithm to Key-Tokens Advantage Estimation in Mathematical Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances have demonstrated that integrating reinforcement learning with rule-based rewards can significantly enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), even without supervised fine-tuning (SFT). However, prevalent reinforcement learning algorithms such as GRPO and its…

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2025

Look Again, Think Slowly: Enhancing Visual Reflection in Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in text-only “slow-thinking” reasoning have prompted efforts to transfer this capability to vision-language models (VLMs), for training visual reasoning models (VRMs). However, such transfer faces critical challenges: Effective “slow thinking” in VRMs requires visual reflection, the

2025

Teaching Vision-Language Models to Ask: Resolving Ambiguity in Visual Questions

ACL 2025long

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These approaches neglect the inherently interactive nature of user inter…

2022

Optimizing Alignment of Speech and Language Latent Spaces for End-To-End Speech Recognition and Understanding

ICASSP 2022accepted

The advances in attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) networks have brought great progress to end-to-end (E2E) automatic speech recognition (ASR). One way to further improve the performance of AED-based E2E ASR is to introduce an extra text encoder for leveraging extensive text data and thus capture…

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2022

RAPO: An Adaptive Ranking Paradigm for Bilingual Lexicon Induction

EMNLP 2022main

Bilingual lexicon induction induces the word translations by aligning independently trained word embeddings in two languages. Existing approaches generally focus on minimizing the distances between words in the aligned pairs, while suffering from low discriminative capability to distinguish the rela…

2022

SpeechT5: Unified-Modal Encoder-Decoder Pre-Training for Spoken Language Processing

ACL 2022long

Motivated by the success of T5 (Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer) in pre-trained natural language processing models, we propose a unified-modal SpeechT5 framework that explores the encoder-decoder pre-training for self-supervised speech/text representation learning. The SpeechT5 framework consists…

2021

CodeXGLUE: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset for Code Understanding and Generation

NeurIPS 2021poster

Benchmark datasets have a significant impact on accelerating research in programming language tasks. In this paper, we introduce CodeXGLUE, a benchmark dataset to foster machine learning research for program understanding and generation. CodeXGLUE includes a collection of 10 tasks across 14 datasets…

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2021

GraphCodeBERT: Pre-training Code Representations with Data Flow

ICLR 2021poster

Pre-trained models for programming language have achieved dramatic empirical improvements on a variety of code-related tasks such as code search, code completion, code summarization, etc. However, existing pre-trained models regard a code snippet as a sequence of tokens, while ignoring the inherent…

2021

SemFace: Pre-training Encoder and Decoder with a Semantic Interface for Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2021long

While pre-training techniques are working very well in natural language processing, how to pre-train a decoder and effectively use it for neural machine translation (NMT) still remains a tricky issue. The main reason is that the cross-attention module between the encoder and decoder cannot be pre-tr…

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