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Xiao-Wen Yang

13 accepted papers

2026

ChinaTravel: An Open-Ended Travel Planning Benchmark with Compositional Constraint Validation for Language Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Travel planning stands out among real-world applications of \emph{Language Agents} because it couples significant practical demand with a rigorous constraint-satisfaction challenge. However, existing benchmarks primarily operate on a slot-filling paradigm, restricting agents to synthetic queries wit…

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2026

FormalML: A Benchmark for Evaluating Formal Subgoal Completion in Machine Learning Theory

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable progress in formal theorem proving. Yet their ability to serve as practical assistants for mathematicians—filling in missing steps within complex proofs—remains underexplored. We identify this challenge as the task of subgoal complet…

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2026

Pianist Transformer: Towards Expressive Piano Performance Rendering via Scalable Self-Supervised Pre-Training

ICML 2026poster

Existing methods for expressive music performance rendering rely on supervised learning over small labeled datasets, which limits scaling of both data volume and model size, despite the availability of vast unlabeled music, as in vision and language. To address this gap, we introduce Pianist Transfo…

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2026

Stabilizing Recurrent Dynamics for Test-Time Scalable Latent Reasoning in Looped Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Looped Language Models (LoopLMs) enable efficient latent reasoning through depth recurrence, yet exhibit unreliable test-time scaling behavior: performance often peaks at a certain iteration depth and then collapses with further recurrence. Through latent dynamics analysis, we find an inherent trade…

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2026

Step Back to Leap Forward: Self-Backtracking for Symbolic Reasoning and Planning in Language Models

AAAI 2026technical

Although autoregressive language models demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, their effectiveness in symbolic reasoning and decision-making scenarios remains constrained. Recent research indicates that training language models to emulate symbolic search algorithms (e.g. depth-fi

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2025

AutoEvolve: Automatically Evolving Queries for Applicable and Scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation Benchmarking

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to address queries beyond their internal knowledge by integrating domain knowledge in specialized corpus, which necessitates the generation of benchmarks on specific corpus to evaluate RAG systems. However, existing automated

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2025

CARTS: Advancing Neural Theorem Proving with Diversified Tactic Calibration and Bias-Resistant Tree Search

ICLR 2025poster

Recent advancements in neural theorem proving integrate large language models with tree search algorithms like Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), where the language model suggests tactics and the tree search finds the complete proof path. However, many tactics proposed by the language model converge to…

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2025

D3: Diversity, Difficulty, and Dependability-Aware Data Selection for Sample-Efficient LLM Instruction Tuning

IJCAI 2025

Recent advancements in instruction tuning for large language models (LLMs) suggest that a small, high-quality dataset can significantly equip LLMs with instruction-following capabilities, outperforming large datasets often burdened by quality and redundancy issues. However, the challenge lies in aut

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2025

Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: Towards Improving the Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models

IJCAI 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results across various tasks, yet their reasoning capabilities remain a fundamental challenge. Developing AI systems with strong reasoning capabilities is regarded as a crucial milestone in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and has

2024

Analysis for Abductive Learning and Neural-Symbolic Reasoning Shortcuts

ICML 2024poster

Abductive learning models (ABL) and neural-symbolic predictive models (NeSy) have been recently shown effective, as they allow us to infer labels that are consistent with some prior knowledge by reasoning over high-level concepts extracted from sub-symbolic inputs. However, their generalization abil…

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2024

Safe Abductive Learning in the Presence of Inaccurate Rules

AAAI 2024technical

Integrating complementary strengths of raw data and logical rules to improve the learning generalization has been recently shown promising and effective, e.g., abductive learning is one generic framework that can learn the perception model from data and reason between rules simultaneously. However,…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

LOG: Active Model Adaptation for Label-Efficient OOD Generalization

NeurIPS 2022accept

This work discusses how to achieve worst-case Out-Of-Distribution (OOD) generalization for a variety of distributions based on a relatively small labeling cost. The problem has broad applications, especially in non-i.i.d. open-world scenarios. Previous studies either rely on a large amount of labeli…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar