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Siyang Gao

11 accepted papers

2026

DAMR: Efficient and Adaptive Context-Aware Knowledge Graph Question Answering with LLM-Guided MCTS

ICLR 2026poster

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) aims to interpret natural language queries and perform structured reasoning over knowledge graphs by leveraging their relational and semantic structures to retrieve accurate answers. Existing methods primarily follow either the retrieve-then-reason paradigm,…

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2026

Dual-Robust Cross-Domain Offline Reinforcement Learning Against Dynamics Shifts

ICLR 2026poster

Single-domain offline reinforcement learning (RL) often suffers from limited data coverage, while cross-domain offline RL handles this issue by leveraging additional data from other domains with dynamics shifts. However, existing studies primarily focus on train-time robustness (handling dynamics sh…

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2026

Model-based Offline RL via Robust Value-Aware Model Learning with Implicitly Differentiable Adaptive Weighting

ICLR 2026poster

Model-based offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to enhance offline RL with a dynamics model that facilitates policy exploration. However, model exploitation could occur due to inevitable model errors, which degrades algorithm performance. Adversarial model learning offers a theoretical framewor…

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2026

Unifying Value Alignment and Assignment in Cross-Domain Offline Reinforcement Learning with Heterogeneous Datasets

ICML 2026poster

Cross-domain offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to train an agent that performs well in the target domain using a limited target domain dataset and a source domain dataset that exhibits a dynamics shift. Training directly on the original source dataset typically leads to performance collapse. …

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2025

Bring Reason to Vision: Understanding Perception and Reasoning through Model Merging

ICML 2025poster

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) combine visual perception with the general capabilities, such as reasoning, of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the mechanisms by which these two abilities can be combined and contribute remain poorly understood. In this work, we explore to compose perception and…

2025

Why Is Spatial Reasoning Hard for VLMs? An Attention Mechanism Perspective on Focus Areas

ICML 2025poster

Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) have long struggled with spatial reasoning tasks. Surprisingly, even simple spatial reasoning tasks, such as recognizing “under” or “behind” relationships between only two objects, pose significant challenges for current VLMs. We believe it is crucial to use the l…

2024

In-Context Sharpness as Alerts: An Inner Representation Perspective for Hallucination Mitigation

ICML 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) frequently hallucinate, e.g., making factual errors, yet our understanding of why they make these errors remains limited. In this study, we aim to understand the underlying mechanisms of LLM hallucinations from the perspective of *inner representations*. We discover a pa…

2023

FELM: Benchmarking Factuality Evaluation of Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Assessing factuality of text generated by large language models (LLMs) is an emerging yet crucial research area, aimed at alerting users to potential errors and guiding the development of more reliable LLMs. Nonetheless, the evaluators assessing factuality necessitate suitable evaluation themselves…

2023

Fast Bellman Updates for Wasserstein Distributionally Robust MDPs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Markov decision processes (MDPs) often suffer from the sensitivity issue under model ambiguity. In recent years, robust MDPs have emerged as an effective framework to overcome this challenge. Distributionally robust MDPs extend the robust MDP framework by incorporating distributional information of…