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Yao Wang

30 accepted papers

2026

All-day Multi-scenes Lifelong Vision-and-Language Navigation with Tucker Adaptation

ICLR 2026poster

Deploying vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents requires adaptation across diverse scenes and environments, but fine-tuning on a specific scenario often causes catastrophic forgetting in others, which severely limits flexible long-term deployment. We formalize this challenge as the all-day mul…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

DV-World: Benchmarking Data Visualization Agents in Real-World Scenarios

ICML 2026poster

Real-world data visualization (DV) requires native environmental grounding, cross-platform evolution, and proactive intent alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks often suffer from code-sandbox confinement, single-language creation-only tasks, and assumption of perfect intent. To bridge these gaps, we i…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

FB-CLIP: Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection with Foreground-Background Disentanglement

CVPR 2026

Fine-grained anomaly detection is crucial in industrial and medical applications, but labeled anomalies are often scarce, making zero-shot detection challenging. While vision-language models like CLIP offer promising solutions, they struggle with foreground-background feature entanglement and coarse

Cited by 1SourcecodeScholar
2026

Fine-Grained Privacy Extraction from Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems by Exploiting Knowledge Asymmetry

ICLR 2026poster

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems enhance large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge bases, significantly improving their factual accuracy and contextual relevance. However, this integration also introduces new privacy vulnerabilities. Existing privacy attacks on RAG…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

From Extraction to Deduction: Resolving Functional Misalignment in RAG via a Collaborative Critic-Reasoner Framework

ICML 2026poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems suffer from a fundamental functional misalignment where retrievers optimize for semantic relevance, often recalling documents with high background utility but factually erroneous answer spans that generators blindly adopt as cognitive shortcuts. To resolv…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling

ICLR 2026poster

Samples of brain signals collected by EEG sensors have inherent anti-correlations that are well modeled by negative edges in a finite graph. To differentiate epilepsy patients from healthy subjects using collected EEG signals, we build lightweight and interpretable transformer-like neural nets by…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

The Power of Small Initialization in Noisy Low-Tubal-Rank Tensor Recovery

ICLR 2026poster

We study the problem of recovering a low-tubal-rank tensor $\mathcal{X}\_\star\in \mathbb{R}^{n \times n \times k}$ from noisy linear measurements under the t-product framework. A widely adopted strategy involves factorizing the optimization variable as $\mathcal{U} * \mathcal{U}^\top$, where $\math…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

DULRTC-RME: A Deep Unrolled Low-rank Tensor Completion Network for Radio Map Estimation

ICASSP 2025accepted

Radio maps enrich radio propagation and spectrum occupancy information, which provides fundamental support for the operation and optimization of wireless communication systems. Traditional radio maps are mainly achieved by extensive manual channel measurements, which is time-consuming and inefficien…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Not All Parameters Are Created Equal: Smart Isolation Boosts Fine-Tuning Performance

EMNLP 2025

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a pivotal approach to adapting large language models (LLMs) for downstream tasks; however, performance often suffers from the “seesaw phenomenon”, where indiscriminate parameter updates yield progress on certain tasks at the expense of others. To address this challeng

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Sequential Multi-Agent Dynamic Algorithm Configuration

NeurIPS 2025poster

The performance of an algorithm often critically depends on its hyperparameter configuration. Dynamic algorithm configuration (DAC) is a recent trend in automated machine learning, which can dynamically adjust the algorithm’s configuration during the execution process and relieve users from tedious…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Towards Universal Offline Black-Box Optimization via Learning Language Model Embeddings

ICML 2025poster

The pursuit of universal black-box optimization (BBO) algorithms is a longstanding goal. However, unlike domains such as language or vision, where scaling structured data has driven generalization, progress in offline BBO remains hindered by the lack of unified representations for heterogeneous nume…

2024

UNEX-RL: Reinforcing Long-Term Rewards in Multi-Stage Recommender Systems with UNidirectional EXecution

AAAI 2024technical

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in utilizing reinforcement learning (RL) to optimize long-term rewards in recommender systems. Since industrial recommender systems are typically designed as multi-stage systems, RL methods with a single agent face challenges when optimizing multipl…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Understanding the Impact of Image Quality and Distance of Objects to Object Detection Performance

IROS 2023

Object detection is a fundamental task for autonomous driving, which aim to identify and localize objects within an image. Deep learning has made great strides for object detection, with popular models including Faster R-CNN, YOLO, and SSD. The detection accuracy and computational cost of object det

Cited by 33SourceScholar
2021

Effective Snapshot Compressive-Spectral Imaging via Deep Denoising and Total Variation Priors

CVPR 2021poster

Snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) is a new type of compressive imaging system that compresses multiple frames of images into a single snapshot measurement, which enjoys low cost, low bandwidth, and high-speed sensing rate. By applying the existing SCI methods to deal with hyperspectral images, howe…

Cited by 45PDFcodeScholar
2020

A Fast and Accurate Frequent Directions Algorithm for Low Rank Approximation via Block Krylov Iteration

ICASSP 2020accepted

It is known that frequent directions (FD) is a popular deterministic matrix sketching technique for low rank approximation. However, FD and its randomized variants usually meet high computational cost or computational instability in dealing with large-scale datasets, which limits their use in practi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2020

Estimating Structural Missing Values Via Low-Tubal-Rank Tensor Completion

ICASSP 2020accepted

The recently proposed Tensor Nuclear Norm (TNN) minimization has been widely used for tensor completion. However, previous works didn’t consider the structural difference between the observed data and missing data, which widely exists in many applications. In this paper, we propose to incorporate a…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2019

Deep Generative Learning via Variational Gradient Flow

ICML 2019oral

We propose a framework to learn deep generative models via \textbf{V}ariational \textbf{Gr}adient Fl\textbf{ow} (VGrow) on probability spaces. The evolving distribution that asymptotically converges to the target distribution is governed by a vector field, which is the negative gradient of the first…

2018

Multispectral Image Intrinsic Decomposition via Subspace Constraint

CVPR 2018poster

Multispectral images contain many clues of surface characteristics of the objects, thus can be used in many computer vision tasks, e.g., recolorization and segmentation. However, due to the complex geometry structure of natural scenes, the spectra curves of the same surface can look very different u…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2017

A Novel Tensor-Based Video Rain Streaks Removal Approach via Utilizing Discriminatively Intrinsic Priors

CVPR 2017poster

Rain streaks removal is an important issue of the outdoor vision system and has been recently investigated extensively. In this paper, we propose a novel tensor based video rain streaks removal approach by fully considering the discriminatively intrinsic characteristics of rain streaks and clean vid…

Cited by 194PDFScholar
2017

Tensor RPCA by Bayesian CP Factorization With Complex Noise

ICCV 2017poster

The RPCA model has achieved good performances in various applications. However, two defects limit its effectiveness. Firstly, it is designed for dealing with data in matrix form, which fails to exploit the structure information of higher order tensor data in some pratical situations. Secondly, it ad…

Cited by 23PDFScholar
2015

Low-Rank Matrix Factorization Under General Mixture Noise Distributions

ICCV 2015oral

Many computer vision problems can be posed as learning a low-dimensional subspace from high dimensional data. The low rank matrix factorization (LRMF) represents a commonly utilized subspace learning strategy. Most of the current LRMF techniques are constructed on the optimization problem using L_1…

Cited by 98PDFScholar