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Xiaohang Tang

10 accepted papers

2026

RSPO: Regularized Self-Play Alignment of Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Self-play-based policy optimization has emerged as an effective approach for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), formulating preference optimization as a two-player game. However, the regularization with respect to the reference policy, which is crucial for mitigating over-optimization, has be…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Robust Multi-Objective Controlled Decoding of Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce Robust Multi-Objective Decoding (RMOD), a novel inference-time algorithm that robustly aligns Large Language Models (LLMs) to multiple human objectives (e.g., instruction-following, helpfulness, safety) by maximizing the worst-case rewards. RMOD formulates the robust decoding problem as…

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2026

wd1: Weighted Policy Optimization for Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Improving the reasoning capabilities of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) through reinforcement learning (RL) remains an open problem. The intractability of dLLMs likelihood function necessitates approximating the current, old, and reference policy likelihoods at each policy optimization…

Cited by 62SourceScholar
2024

Adversarially Robust Decision Transformer

NeurIPS 2024poster

Decision Transformer (DT), as one of the representative Reinforcement Learning via Supervised Learning (RvS) methods, has achieved strong performance in offline learning tasks by leveraging the powerful Transformer architecture for sequential decision-making. However, in adversarial environments, th…

2023

A Word Sense Distribution-based approach for Semantic Change Prediction

EMNLP 2023long findings

Semantic Change Detection of words is an important task for various NLP applications that must make time-sensitive predictions. Some words are used over time in novel ways to express new meanings, and these new meanings establish themselves as novel senses of existing words. On the other hand, Word…

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2023

Learning Dynamic Contextualised Word Embeddings via Template-based Temporal Adaptation

ACL 2023long

Dynamic contextualised word embeddings (DCWEs) represent the temporal semantic variations of words. We propose a method for learning DCWEs by time-adapting a pretrained Masked Language Model (MLM) using time-sensitive templates. Given two snapshots C1 and C2 of a corpus taken respectively at two dis…

2023

Regret-Minimizing Double Oracle for Extensive-Form Games

ICML 2023poster

By incorporating regret minimization, double oracle methods have demonstrated rapid convergence to Nash Equilibrium (NE) in normal-form games and extensive-form games, through algorithms such as online double oracle (ODO) and extensive-form double oracle (XDO), respectively. In this study, we furthe…

2021

Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning with Trust Region Methods

IJCAI 2021poster

Most of reinforcement learning algorithms optimize the discounted criterion which is beneficial to accelerate the convergence and reduce the variance of estimates. Although the discounted criterion is appropriate for certain tasks such as financial related problems, many engineering problems treat f…

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