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Tianle Li

21 accepted papers

2026

Diagnose, Correct, and Learn from Manipulation Failures via Visual Symbols

CVPR 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation, yet they remain limited in failure diagnosis and learning from failures. Additionally, existing failure datasets are mostly generated programmatically in simulation, which limits their generalizat

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2026

Expert-Inspired Multi-Agent Coordination for Multi-Objective Molecular Optimization

AAAI 2026technical

Multi-objective molecular optimization is a fundamental yet inherently challenging task in drug discovery, as it requires simultaneously optimizing multiple, often conflicting, molecular properties. Although recent deep learning methods have shown promise, they often lack objective-specific special

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2026

Reshaping Reasoning in LLMs: A Theoretical Analysis of RL Training Dynamics through Pattern Selection

ICLR 2026poster

While reinforcement learning (RL) demonstrated remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of language models, the training dynamics of RL in LLMs remain unclear. In this work, we provide an explanation of the RL training process through empirical analysis and rigorous theoretical mod…

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2026

Search Arena: Analyzing Search-Augmented LLMs

ICLR 2026poster

Search-augmented language models combine web search with Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve response groundedness and freshness. However, analyzing these systems remains challenging: existing datasets are limited in scale and narrow in scope, often constrained to static, single-turn, fact-check…

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2026

What Does Vision Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Really Learn? Disentangling Tool-Induced and Intrinsic Effects for Crop-and-Zoom

ICML 2026poster

Vision tool-use reinforcement learning (RL) can equip vision--language models with visual operators such as crop-and-zoom and achieves strong performance gains, yet it remains unclear whether these gains are driven by improvements in tool use or evolving intrinsic capabilities. We introduce \textbf{…

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2025

AutoEval Done Right: Using Synthetic Data for Model Evaluation

ICML 2025poster

The evaluation of machine learning models using human-labeled validation data can be expensive and time-consuming. AI-labeled synthetic data can be used to decrease the number of human annotations required for this purpose in a process called autoevaluation. We suggest efficient and statistically pr…

2025

Chatbot Arena Estimate: towards a generalized performance benchmark for LLM capabilities

NAACL 2025industry

In industrial LLM development, evaluating large language models (LLMs) is critical for tasks like benchmarking internal models and detecting regressions during fine-tuning, but existing benchmark aggregation methods, such as Elo-based systems, can be resource-intensive, public facing, and time-consu…

2025

FedWMSAM: Fast and Flat Federated Learning via Weighted Momentum and Sharpness-Aware Minimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

In federated learning (FL), models must \emph{converge quickly} under tight communication budgets while \emph{generalizing} across non-IID client distributions. These twin requirements have naturally led to two widely used techniques: client/server \emph{momentum} to accelerate progress, and \emph{s…

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2025

From Crowdsourced Data to High-quality Benchmarks: Arena-Hard and Benchbuilder Pipeline

ICML 2025poster

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has outpaced the development of model evaluation, highlighting the need for continuous curation of new, challenging benchmarks. However, manual curation of high-quality, human-aligned benchmarks is expensive and time-consuming. To address this, we…

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2025

How to Evaluate Reward Models for RLHF

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce a new benchmark for reward models that quantifies their ability to produce strong language models through RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback). The gold-standard approach is to run a full RLHF training pipeline and directly probe downstream LLM performance. However, this pr…

2025

On the Robustness of Transformers against Context Hijacking for Linear Classification

NeurIPS 2025poster

Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated powerful in-context learning capabilities. However, their predictions can be disrupted by factually correct context, a phenomenon known as context hijacking, revealing a significant robustness issue. To understand this phenomenon theor…

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2025

Prompt-to-Leaderboard: Prompt-Adaptive LLM Evaluations

ICML 2025poster

Large language model (LLM) evaluations typically rely on aggregated metrics like accuracy or human preference, averaging across users and prompts. This averaging obscures user- and prompt-specific variations in model performance. To address this, we propose Prompt-to-Leaderboard (P2L), a method that…

2025

Unveiling the Compositional Ability Gap in Vision-Language Reasoning Model

NeurIPS 2025poster

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities utilizing reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable reward, whether large vision-language models (VLMs) can directly inherit such capabilities through similar post-training strategies remains underexplored. In this work,…

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2024

Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference

ICML 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have unlocked new capabilities and applications; however, evaluating the alignment with human preferences still poses significant challenges. To address this issue, we introduce Chatbot Arena, an open platform for evaluating LLMs based on human preferences. Our methodolo…

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2024

GenAI Arena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Generative AI has made remarkable strides to revolutionize fields such as image and video generation. These advancements are driven by innovative algorithms, architecture, and data. However, the rapid proliferation of generative models has highlighted a critical gap: the absence of trustworthy evalu…

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2024

ImagenHub: Standardizing the evaluation of conditional image generation models

ICLR 2024poster

Recently, a myriad of conditional image generation and editing models have been developed to serve different downstream tasks, including text-to-image generation, text-guided image editing, subject-driven image generation, control-guided image generation, etc. However, we observe huge inconsistencie…

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2024

LMSYS-Chat-1M: A Large-Scale Real-World LLM Conversation Dataset

ICLR 2024spotlight

Studying how people interact with large language models (LLMs) in real-world scenarios is increasingly important due to their widespread use in various applications. In this paper, we introduce LMSYS-Chat-1M, a large-scale dataset containing one million real-world conversations with 25 state-of-the-…

2024

MMLU-Pro: A More Robust and Challenging Multi-Task Language Understanding Benchmark

NeurIPS 2024spotlight

In the age of large-scale language models, benchmarks like the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) have been pivotal in pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve in language comprehension and reasoning across diverse domains. However, as models continue to improve, their performance…

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2023

AnaMeta: A Table Understanding Dataset of Field Metadata Knowledge Shared by Multi-dimensional Data Analysis Tasks

ACL 2023findings

Tabular data analysis is performed everyday across various domains. It requires an accurate understanding of field semantics to correctly operate on table fields and find common patterns in daily analysis. In this paper, we introduce the AnaMeta dataset, a collection of 467k tables with derived supe…

2023

Few-shot In-context Learning on Knowledge Base Question Answering

ACL 2023long

Question answering over knowledge bases is considered a difficult problem due to the challenge of generalizing to a wide variety of possible natural language questions. Additionally, the heterogeneity of knowledge base schema items between different knowledge bases often necessitates specialized tra…