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Xiaoyu Tan

22 accepted papers

2026

CUARewardBench: Benchmark for Evaluating Reward Models on Computer-using Agent Trajectories

ICML 2026poster

Computer-using agents (CUAs) enable task completion through natural interaction with operating systems and software interfaces. While script-based verifiers are widely adopted for evaluation, they suffer from limited scalability and inability to provide step-wise assessment. Reward models offer prom…

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2026

Count Counts: Motivating Exploration in LLM Reasoning with Count-based Intrinsic Rewards

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a compelling way to strengthen the multi step reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, prevalent RL paradigms still lean on sparse outcome-based rewards and limited exploration, which often drives LLMs toward repetitive and suboptimal reasoni…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

DisPPO: Quantile-Based Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, standard actor-critic methods, such as PPO, rely on scalar value functions that estimate only the expectation of cumulative returns. This reduction inherently disca…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Learn the Ropes, Then Trust the Wins: Self-imitation with Progressive Exploration for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) is the dominant paradigm for sharpening strategic tool use capabilities of LLMs on long-horizon, sparsely-rewarded agent tasks, yet it faces a fundamental challenge of exploration-exploitation trade-off. Existing studies stimulate exploration through the lens of policy en…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Navigating the Pareto Frontier of Alignment:Spectrum-Adaptive Fine-Tuning for LLMs

ICML 2026poster

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with Negative Log-Likelihood (NLL) remains the standard post-training paradigm for Large Language Models, yet it imposes an excessive penalty on low-probability target tokens. This focus forces the model to prioritize minimizing the loss of difficult samples over optimiz…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PRISM: Festina Lente Proactivity—Risk-Sensitive, Uncertainty-Aware Deliberation for Proactive Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Proactive agents must decide not only what to say but also whether and when to intervene. Many current systems rely on brittle heuristics or indiscriminate long reasoning, which offers little control over the benefit-burden tradeoff. We formulate the problem as cost-sensitive selective intervention…

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2026

The Choice of Divergence: A Neglected Key to Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward

ICLR 2026poster

A central paradox in fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) is the frequent degradation of multi-attempt performance (Pass@k) despite improvements in single-attempt accuracy (Pass@1). This is often accompanied by catastrophic forgetting, wh…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

An Attentive Dual-Encoder Framework Leveraging Multimodal Visual and Semantic Information for Automatic OSAHS Diagnosis

ICASSP 2025accepted

Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OS-AHS) is a common sleep disorder caused by upper airway blockage, leading to oxygen deprivation and disrupted sleep. Traditional diagnosis using polysomnography (PSG) is expensive, time-consuming, and uncomfortable. Existing deep learning methods using fa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Atomic Thinking of LLMs: Decoupling and Exploring Mathematical Reasoning Abilities

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in mathematical reasoning capabilities. However, we argue that current large-scale reasoning models primarily rely on scaling up training datasets with diverse mathematical problems and long thinking chains, which raises question…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

CogniDual Framework: Self-Training Large Language Models within a Dual-System Theoretical Framework for Improving Cognitive Tasks

ICASSP 2025accepted

Cognitive psychology investigates perception, attention, memory, language, problem-solving, decision-making, and reasoning. Kahneman’s dual-system theory elucidates the human decision-making process, distinguishing between the rapid, intuitive System 1 and the deliberative, rational System 2. Recent…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Guess What I am Thinking: A Benchmark for Inner Thought Reasoning of Role-Playing Language Agents

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM)-based Role-Playing Language Agents (RPLAs) have attracted broad attention in various applications. While chain-of-thought reasoning has shown importance in many tasks for LLMs, the internal thinking processes of RPLAs remain unexplored. Understanding cha

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

HeStIa: Asynchronous Embodied Dynamic Locomotion Learning for Walking Robots through Multimodal Large Language Models

IROS 2025

The control of locomotion in walking robots with various architectural designs presents significant challenges. While existing approaches primarily rely on low-level state information and isolated visual features, lacking the high-level semantic understanding that humans use to reason about movement

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ORIGAMISPACE: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs in Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning with Mathematical Constraints

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Spatial reasoning is a key capability in the field of artificial intelligence, especially crucial in areas such as robotics, computer vision, and natural language understanding. However, evaluating the ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in complex spatial reasoning still faces chall…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

One Example Shown, Many Concepts Known! Counterexample-Driven Conceptual Reasoning in Mathematical LLMs

ICML 2025poster

Leveraging mathematical Large Language Models (LLMs) for proof generation is a fundamental topic in LLMs research. We argue that the ability of current LLMs to prove statements largely depends on whether they have encountered the relevant proof process during training. This reliance limits their dee…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2025

Refine Knowledge of Large Language Models via Adaptive Contrastive Learning

ICLR 2025poster

How to alleviate the hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) has always been the fundamental goal pursued by the LLMs research community. Looking through numerous hallucination-related studies, a mainstream category of methods is to reduce hallucinations by optimizing the knowledge representa…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

ULMR: Unlearning Large Language Models via Negative Response and Model Parameter Average

EMNLP 2024industry

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant interest from the research community due to their broad applicability in many language-oriented tasks, and are now widely used in numerous areas of production and daily life. One source of the powerful capabilities of LLMs is t…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

Bellman Meets Hawkes: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning via Temporal Point Processes

AAAI 2023technical

We consider a sequential decision making problem where the agent faces the environment characterized by the stochastic discrete events and seeks an optimal intervention policy such that its long-term reward is maximized. This problem exists ubiquitously in social media, finance and health informatic…

2023

Gram-based Attentive Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Network for Video Nystagmography Classification

ICCV 2023poster

Video nystagmography (VNG) is the diagnostic gold standard of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), which requires medical professionals to examine the direction, frequency, intensity, duration, and variation in the strength of nystagmus on a VNG video. This is a tedious process heavily influ…

Cited by 7PDFcodeScholar
2023

Provably Invariant Learning without Domain Information

ICML 2023poster

Typical machine learning applications always assume the data follows independent and identically distributed (IID) assumptions. In contrast, this assumption is frequently violated in real-world circumstances, leading to the Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization problem and a major drop in model r…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2023

SaFER: A Robust and Efficient Framework for Fine-tuning BERT-based Classifier with Noisy Labels

ACL 2023industry

Learning on noisy datasets is a challenging problem when pre-trained language models are applied to real-world text classification tasks. In numerous industrial applications, acquiring task-specific datasets with 100% accurate labels is difficult, thus many datasets are accompanied by label noise at…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2019

Robot-Assisted Training in Laparoscopy Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

RA-L 2019

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is increasingly becoming a vital method of reducing surgical trauma and significantly improving postoperative recovery. However, skillful handling of surgical instruments used in MIS, especially for laparoscopy, requires a long period of training and depends highly o

Cited by 51SourceScholar