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Yingxue Zhang

39 accepted papers

2026

A Balanced Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Commonsense Abductive Logic

ICLR 2026poster

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive formal reasoning abilities, they often break down when problems require complex proof planning. One promising approach for improving LLM reasoning abilities involves translating problems into formal logic and using a logic solver. Al…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Abductive Reasoning with Probabilistic Commonsense

ICML 2026poster

Recent efforts to improve the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have focused on integrating formal logic solvers within neurosymbolic frameworks. A key challenge is that formal solvers lack commonsense world knowledge, preventing them from making reasoning steps that humans find ob…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Decision Transformers As Zero-Shot Learners via Text-Behavior Alignment

ICML 2026spotlight

Offline meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) aims to train agents that can generalize to unseen tasks using pre-collected data from related tasks. Recent approaches leverage the scalability of transformer architectures to model behavior sequences and support task adaptation using target task demons…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

OmniEVA: Embodied Versatile Planner via Task-Adaptive 3D-Grounded and Embodiment-aware Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have opened new opportunities for embodied intelligence, enabling multimodal understanding, reasoning, and interaction, as well as continuous spatial decision-making. Nevertheless, current MLLM-based embodied systems face two critical limit…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

One Demo Is All It Takes: Planning Domain Derivation with LLMs from A Single Demonstration

ICLR 2026poster

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) show promise for robotic task planning but often struggle to guarantee correctness in long-horizon problems. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by grounding symbolic plans in low-level execution, yet it relies heavily on manually engineered planni…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

One Step Forward and K Steps Back: Better Reasoning with Denoising Recursion Models

ICML 2026poster

Looped transformers scale computational depth independent of parameter count by repeatedly applying the same layer. However, training these models over long horizons creates significant optimization challenges. Specifically, it is difficult for looped transformers that start from noise to steer towa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

OpenPyRo-A1: An Open Python-Based Low-Cost Bimanual Robot for Embodied AI

RA-L 2026

Many real-world tasks, such as assembly, cooking, and object handovers, require bi-manual coordination. Learning such skills via imitation remains challenging due to dataset scarcity, mainly caused by the high cost of bi-manual robotic platforms and barriers to entry in robotics software. To address

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2026

OpenPyRo-A1: An Open Python-Based Low-Cost Bimanual Robot for Embodied AI

ICRA 2026poster

Many real-world tasks, such as assembly, cooking, and object handovers, require bi-manual coordination. Learning such skills via imitation remains challenging due to dataset scarcity, mainly caused by the high cost of bi-manual robotic platforms and barriers to entry in robotics software. To address…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Self-CriTeach: LLM Self-Teaching and Self-Critiquing for Improving Robotic Planning via Automated Domain Generation

ICML 2026poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong promise for robotic task planning, particularly through automatic planning domain generation. Planning domains are brittle under imperfect logical states and perception noise; prior approaches largely treat generated planning domains as plan ut…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

The Value of Variance: Mitigating Debate Collapse in Multi-Agent Systems via Uncertainty-Driven Policy Optimization

ICML 2026spotlight

Multi-agent debate (MAD) systems improve LLM reasoning through iterative deliberation, but remain vulnerable to debate collapse, a failure type where final agent decisions are compromised on erroneous reasoning. Existing methods lack principled mechanisms to detect or prevent such failures. To addre…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Uncertainty-Aware Gaussian Map for Vision-Language Navigation

ICLR 2026poster

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate 3D environments following natural language instructions. During navigation, existing agents commonly encounter perceptual uncertainty, such as insufficient evidence for reliable grounding or ambiguity in interpreting spatial cues, yet th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

C3PO: Optimized Large Language Model Cascades with Probabilistic Cost Constraints for Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results on complex reasoning tasks, but their high inference cost remains a major barrier to real-world deployment. A promising solution is to use cascaded inference, where small, cheap models handle easy queries, and only the hardest examples ar…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Dynamic Masking and Auxiliary Hash Learning for Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval

NeurIPS 2025poster

The demand for multimodal data processing drives the development of information technology. Cross-modal hash retrieval has attracted much attention because it can overcome modal differences and achieve efficient retrieval, and has shown great application potential in many practical scenarios. Existi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

ET-Plan-Bench: Embodied Task-level Planning Benchmark Towards Spatial-Temporal Cognition with Foundation Models

IROS 2025

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have catalyzed numerous efforts to apply these technologies to embodied tasks, with a particular focus on high-level task planning and task decomposition. LLMs face challenges in understanding the physical world, especially regarding spatial, tempo

Cited by 11SourcecodeScholar
2025

InnerThoughts: Disentangling Representations and Predictions in Large Language Models

AISTATS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) contain substantial factual knowledge which is commonly elicited by multiple-choice question-answering prompts. Internally, such models process the prompt through multiple transformer layers, building varying representations of the problem within its hidden states. Ultim…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Retrieval-Augmented Machine Translation with Unstructured Knowledge

EMNLP 2025

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) introduces additional information to enhance large language models (LLMs). In machine translation (MT), previous work typically retrieves in-context examples from paired MT corpora, or domain-specific knowledge from knowledge graphs, to enhance MT models. However

2025

The Graph’s Apprentice: Teaching an LLM Low-Level Knowledge for Circuit Quality Estimation

IJCAI 2025

Logic synthesis is a crucial phase in the circuit design process, responsible for transforming hardware description language (HDL) designs into optimized netlists. However, traditional logic synthesis methods are computationally intensive, restricting their iterative use in refining chip designs. Re

2024

An End-To-End Graph Attention Network Hashing for Cross-Modal Retrieval

NeurIPS 2024poster

Due to its low storage cost and fast search speed, cross-modal retrieval based on hashing has attracted widespread attention and is widely used in real-world applications of social media search. However, most existing hashing methods are often limited by uncomprehensive feature representations and s…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

CKGConv: General Graph Convolution with Continuous Kernels

ICML 2024poster

The existing definitions of graph convolution, either from spatial or spectral perspectives, are inflexible and not unified. Defining a general convolution operator in the graph domain is challenging due to the lack of canonical coordinates, the presence of irregular structures, and the properties o…

2024

EWEK-QA : Enhanced Web and Efficient Knowledge Graph Retrieval for Citation-based Question Answering Systems

ACL 2024long

The emerging citation-based QA systems are gaining more attention especially in generative AI search applications. The importance of extracted knowledge provided to these systems is vital from both accuracy (completeness of information) and efficiency (extracting the information in a timely manner).…

2024

HardCore Generation: Generating Hard UNSAT Problems for Data Augmentation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Efficiently determining the satisfiability of a boolean equation --- known as the SAT problem for brevity --- is crucial in various industrial problems. Recently, the advent of deep learning methods has introduced significant potential for enhancing SAT solving. However, a major barrier to the adva…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Multi-resolution Time-Series Transformer for Long-term Forecasting

AISTATS 2024poster

The performance of transformers for time-series forecasting has improved significantly. Recent architectures learn complex temporal patterns by segmenting a time-series into patches and using the patches as tokens. The patch size controls the ability of transformers to learn the temporal patterns at…

Cited by 49SourcePDFScholar
2024

SolarCube: An Integrative Benchmark Dataset Harnessing Satellite and In-situ Observations for Large-scale Solar Energy Forecasting

NeurIPS 2024poster

Solar power is a critical source of renewable energy, offering significant potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. However, the cloud induced-variability of solar radiation reaching the earth’s surface presents a challenge for integrating solar power into the grid (e…

2023

A Survey on User Behavior Modeling in Recommender Systems

IJCAI 2023poster

User Behavior Modeling (UBM) plays a critical role in user interest learning, which has been extensively used in recommender systems. Crucial interactive patterns between users and items have been exploited, which brings compelling improvements in many recommendation tasks. In this paper, we attempt…

Cited by 35SourcePDFScholar
2023

Bidirectional Learning for Offline Model-based Biological Sequence Design

ICML 2023poster

Offline model-based optimization aims to maximize a black-box objective function with a static dataset of designs and their scores. In this paper, we focus on biological sequence design to maximize some sequence score. A recent approach employs bidirectional learning, combining a forward mapping for…

2023

Neighbor Auto-Grouping Graph Neural Networks for Handover Parameter Configuration in Cellular Network

AAAI 2023technical

The mobile communication enabled by cellular networks is the one of the main foundations of our modern society. Optimizing the performance of cellular networks and providing massive connectivity with improved coverage and user experience has a considerable social and economic impact on our daily lif…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2023

Spectral Augmentations for Graph Contrastive Learning

AISTATS 2023poster

Contrastive learning has emerged as a premier method for learning representations with or without supervision. Recent studies have shown its utility in graph representation learning for pre-training. Despite successes, the understanding of how to design effective graph augmentations that can capture…

2023

Structure Aware Incremental Learning with Personalized Imitation Weights for Recommender Systems

AAAI 2023technical

Recommender systems now consume large-scale data and play a significant role in improving user experience. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as one of the most effective recommender system models because they model the rich relational information. The ever-growing volume of data can make tra…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2022

Bidirectional Learning for Offline Infinite-width Model-based Optimization

NeurIPS 2022accept

In offline model-based optimization, we strive to maximize a black-box objective function by only leveraging a static dataset of designs and their scores. This problem setting arises in numerous fields including the design of materials, robots, DNAs, proteins, etc. Recent approaches train a deep neu…

2022

Versatile Multi-stage Graph Neural Network for Circuit Representation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Due to the rapid growth in the scale of circuits and the desire for knowledge transfer from old designs to new ones, deep learning technologies have been widely exploited in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) to assist circuit design. In chip design cycles, we might encounter heterogeneous and diver…

Cited by 39SourcePDFScholar
2021

Context Tracking Network: Graph-based Context Modeling for Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition

NAACL 2021long

Implicit discourse relation recognition (IDRR) aims to identify logical relations between two adjacent sentences in the discourse. Existing models fail to fully utilize the contextual information which plays an important role in interpreting each local sentence. In this paper, we thus propose a nove…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2021

Detection and Defense of Topological Adversarial Attacks on Graphs

AISTATS 2021poster

Graph neural network (GNN) models achieve superior performance when classifying nodes in graph-structured data. Given that state-of-the-art GNNs share many similarities with their CNN cousins and that CNNs suffer adversarial vulnerabilities, there has also been interest in exploring analogous vulner…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2021

Knowledge-Enhanced Top-K Recommendation in Poincaré Ball

AAAI 2021technical

Personalized recommender systems are increasingly important as more content and services become available and users struggle to identify what might interest them. Thanks to the ability for providing rich information, knowledge graphs (KGs) are being incorporated to enhance the recommendation perform…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2021

RNN with Particle Flow for Probabilistic Spatio-temporal Forecasting

ICML 2021oral

Spatio-temporal forecasting has numerous applications in analyzing wireless, traffic, and financial networks. Many classical statistical models often fall short in handling the complexity and high non-linearity present in time-series data. Recent advances in deep learning allow for better modelling…

2020

Active Learning on Attributed Graphs via Graph Cognizant Logistic Regression and Preemptive Query Generation

ICML 2020poster

Node classification in attributed graphs is an important task in multiple practical settings, but it can often be difficult or expensive to obtain labels. Active learning can improve the achieved classification performance for a given budget on the number of queried labels. The best existing methods…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2020

Non Parametric Graph Learning for Bayesian Graph Neural Networks

UAI 2020poster

Graphs are ubiquitous in modelling relationalstructures. Recent endeavours in machine learningfor graph structured data have led to manyarchitectures and learning algorithms. However,the graph used by these algorithms is oftenconstructed based on inaccurate modellingassumptions and/or noisy data. As…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar