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Tianqi Liu

25 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Markovian: Reflective Exploration via Bayes-Adaptive RL for LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained via Reinforcement Learning (RL) have exhibited strong reasoning capabilities and emergent reflective behaviors, such as rethinking and error correction, as a form of in-context exploration. However, the Markovian policy obtained from conventional RL training does…

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2026

BokehCrafter: Taming Video Diffusion Models for Controllable Bokeh Rendering

AAAI 2026technical

Bokeh is used in photography to emphasize the selected subject by smoothly blurring the out-of-focus region with appealing highlights. While recent advances have achieved impressive results in rendering realistic blur, existing frameworks typically rely on disparity maps and bokeh-relevant inputs (e

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Light-X: Generative 4D Video Rendering with Camera and Illumination Control

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in illumination control extend image-based methods to video, yet still facing a trade-off between lighting fidelity and temporal consistency. Moving beyond relighting, a key step toward generative modeling of real-world scenes is the joint control of camera trajectory and illuminatio…

Cited by 12SourcecodeScholar
2025

Building Math Agents with Multi-Turn Iterative Preference Learning

ICLR 2025poster

Recent studies have shown that large language models' (LLMs) mathematical problem-solving capabilities can be enhanced by integrating external tools, such as code interpreters, and employing multi-turn Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. While current methods focus on synthetic data generation and Sup…

Cited by 24SourcePDFScholar
2025

CH3Depth: Efficient and Flexible Depth Foundation Model with Flow Matching

CVPR 2025highlight

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D vision. An ideal depth estimation model is expected to embrace meticulous detail, temporal consistency, and high efficiency. Although existing foundation models can perform well in certain specific aspects, most of them fall short of fulfilling all the ab…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DoF-Gaussian: Controllable Depth-of-Field for 3D Gaussian Splatting

CVPR 2025poster

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) have shown remarkable success in representing 3D scenes and generating high-quality, novel views in real-time. However, 3D-GS and its variants assume that input images are captured based on pinhole imaging and are fully in focus. This assumption limit…

2025

Free4D: Tuning-free 4D Scene Generation with Spatial-Temporal Consistency

ICCV 2025poster

We present Free4D, a novel tuning-free framework for 4D scene generation from a single image. Existing methods either focus on object-level generation, making scene-level generation infeasible, or rely on large-scale multi-view video datasets for expensive training, with limited generalization abili…

2025

LiPO: Listwise Preference Optimization through Learning-to-Rank

NAACL 2025long

Aligning language models (LMs) with curated human feedback is critical to control their behaviors in real-world applications. Several recent policy optimization methods, such as DPO and SLiC, serve as promising alternatives to the traditional Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) approac…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2025

MuGS: Multi-Baseline Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction

ICCV 2025poster

We present Multi-Baseline Gaussian Splatting (MuGS), a generalized feed-forward approach for novel view synthesis that effectively handles diverse baseline settings, including sparse input views with both small and large baselines. Specifically, we integrate features from Multi-View Stereo (MVS) and…

2025

RRM: Robust Reward Model Training Mitigates Reward Hacking

ICLR 2025poster

Reward models (RMs) play a pivotal role in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, traditional RM training, which relies on response pairs tied to specific prompts, struggles to disentangle prompt-driven preferences from prompt-independent artifacts, such as response l…

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2025

Reward-Guided Prompt Evolving in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

ICML 2025poster

Existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods for large language models (LLMs) rely on static prompt sets, where prompts are curated a priori, and sampled in a fixed schedule for training, regardless of their usefulness to the RL process. We design `eva`, the first method that allows LLMs to prioriti…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

WildAvatar: Learning In-the-wild 3D Avatars from the Web

CVPR 2025poster

Existing research on avatar creation is typically limited to laboratory datasets, which require high costs against scalability and exhibit insufficient representation of the real world. On the other hand, the web abounds with off-the-shelf real-world human videos, but these videos vary in quality an…

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2024

3D Multi-frame Fusion for Video Stabilization

CVPR 2024poster

In this paper we present RStab a novel framework for video stabilization that integrates 3D multi-frame fusion through volume rendering. Departing from conventional methods we introduce a 3D multi-frame perspective to generate stabilized images addressing the challenge of full-frame generation while…

2024

DreamMover: Leveraging the Prior of Diffusion Models for Image Interpolation with Large Motion

ECCV 2024poster

"We study the problem of generating intermediate images from image pairs with large motion while maintaining semantic consistency. Due to the large motion, the intermediate semantic information may be absent in input images. Existing methods either limit to small motion or focus on topologically sim…

2024

Explanation-aware Soft Ensemble Empowers Large Language Model In-context Learning

ACL 2024long

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in various natural language understanding tasks with a few demonstration examples via in-context learning. Common strategies to boost such “in-context” learning ability are to ensemble multiple model decoded results and require the mode…

2024

Human Alignment of Large Language Models through Online Preference Optimisation

ICML 2024poster

Ensuring alignment of language model's outputs with human preferences is critical to guarantee a useful, safe, and pleasant user experience. Thus, human alignment has been extensively studied recently and several methods such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Direct Policy Optimi…

Cited by 40SourcePDFScholar
2024

Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting

NAACL 2024findings

Ranking documents using Large Language Models (LLMs) by directly feeding the query and candidate documents into the prompt is an interesting and practical problem. However, researchers have found it difficult to outperform fine-tuned baseline rankers on benchmark datasets.We analyze pointwise and li…

Cited by 255SourcePDFScholar
2024

MVSGaussian: Fast Generalizable Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo

ECCV 2024poster

"We present MVSGaussian, a new generalizable 3D Gaussian representation approach derived from Multi-View Stereo (MVS) that can efficiently reconstruct unseen scenes. Specifically, 1) we leverage MVS to encode geometry-aware Gaussian representations and decode them into Gaussian parameters. 2) To fur…

2024

Multilingual Fine-Grained News Headline Hallucination Detection

EMNLP 2024finding

The popularity of automated news headline generation has surged with advancements in pre-trained language models. However, these models often suffer from the “hallucination” problem, where the generated headline is not fully supported by its source article. Efforts to address this issue have predomi…

2024

PLaD: Preference-based Large Language Model Distillation with Pseudo-Preference Pairs

ACL 2024findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities in various tasks, yet their vast parameter sizes restrict their applicability in resource-constrained settings. Knowledge distillation (KD) offers a viable solution by transferring expertise from large teacher models to compact stud…

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2024

Predicting Text Preference Via Structured Comparative Reasoning

ACL 2024long

Comparative reasoning plays a crucial role in predicting text preferences; however, large language models (LLMs) often demonstrate inconsistencies in their reasoning, leading to incorrect preference predictions. While approaches like Chain-of-Thought improve accuracy in many settings, they struggle…

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2024

Statistical Rejection Sampling Improves Preference Optimization

ICLR 2024poster

Improving the alignment of language models with human preferences remains an active research challenge. Previous approaches have primarily utilized online Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Recently, offline methods such as Sequence Likelihood Calibration (SLiC) and Direct Preference…

Cited by 199SourcePDFScholar
2024

VIEWS: Entity-Aware News Video Captioning

EMNLP 2024main

Existing popular video captioning benchmarks and models often produce generic captions for videos that lack specific identification of individuals, locations, or organizations (named entities). However, in the case of news videos, the setting is more demanding, requiring the inclusion of such named…

2023

Constraining Depth Map Geometry for Multi-View Stereo: A Dual-Depth Approach with Saddle-shaped Depth Cells

ICCV 2023poster

Learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) methods deal with predicting accurate depth maps to achieve an accurate and complete 3D representation. Despite the excellent performance, existing methods ignore the fact that a suitable depth geometry is also critical in MVS. In this paper, we demonstrate tha…

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2023

When Epipolar Constraint Meets Non-Local Operators in Multi-View Stereo

ICCV 2023poster

Learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) method heavily relies on feature matching, which requires distinctive and descriptive representations. An effective solution is to apply non-local feature aggregation, e.g., Transformer. Albeit useful, these techniques introduce heavy computation overheads for…

Cited by 33PDFcodeScholar