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Yuchen Yan

31 accepted papers

2026

GUI-SAGE: Enhancing GUI Automation with Self-Explanatory Learning

CVPR 2026

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise for GUI automation, enabling agents to learn from binary task completion signals. However, when task difficulty exceeds model capacity, on-policy exploration fails to discover correct actions, creating zero-advantage traps that

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

InftyThink+: Effective and Efficient Infinite-Horizon Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

Large reasoning models achieve strong performance by scaling inference-time chain-of-thought, but this paradigm suffers from quadratic cost, context length limits, and degraded reasoning due to lost-in-the-middle effects. Iterative reasoning mitigates these issues by periodically summarizing interme…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Advanced reasoning in large language models has achieved remarkable performance on challenging tasks, but the prevailing long-context reasoning paradigm faces critical limitations: quadratic computational scaling with sequence length, reasoning constrained by maximum context boundaries, and performa…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

MORALISE: A Structured Benchmark for Moral Alignment in Visual Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Recently, vision-language models have demonstrated increasing influence in morally sensitive domains such as autonomous driving and medical analysis, owing to their powerful multimodal reasoning capabilities. As these models are deployed in high-stakes real-world applications, it is of paramount imp…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

MathFimer: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning by Expanding Reasoning Steps through Fill-in-the-Middle Task

ICLR 2026poster

Mathematical reasoning represents a critical frontier in advancing large language models (LLMs). While step-by-step approaches have emerged as the dominant paradigm for mathematical problem-solving in LLMs, the quality of reasoning steps in training data fundamentally constrains model performance. R…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Milestone-Guided Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Language Agents

ICML 2026poster

While long-horizon agentic tasks require language agents to perform dozens of sequential decisions, training such agents with reinforcement learning remains challenging. We identify two root causes: credit misattribution, where correct early actions are penalized due to terminal failures, and sample…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PLANETALIGN: A Comprehensive Python Library for Benchmarking Network Alignment

ICLR 2026poster

Network alignment (NA) aims to identify node correspondence across different networks and serves as a critical cornerstone behind various downstream multi-network learning tasks. Despite growing research in NA, there lacks a comprehensive library that facilitates the systematic development and bench…

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2026

SpatialLadder: Progressive Training for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Spatial reasoning remains a fundamental challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with current approaches struggling to achieve robust performance despite recent advances. We identify that this limitation stems from a critical gap: existing methods attempt to learn spatial reasoning directly with…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding via Region Consistency

AAAI 2026technical

Graphical User Interface (GUI) grounding, the task of mapping natural language instructions to precise screen coordinates, is fundamental to autonomous GUI agents. While existing methods achieve strong performance through extensive supervised training or reinforcement learning with labeled rewards,

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

VerifyBench: Benchmarking Reference-based Reward Systems for Large Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Large reasoning models such as OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex reasoning tasks. A critical component of their training is the incorporation of reference-based reward systems within reinforcement learning (RL), where model outputs are evaluated against gr…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

AskToAct: Enhancing LLMs Tool Use via Self-Correcting Clarification

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in tool learning. In real-world scenarios, user queries are often ambiguous and incomplete, requiring effective clarification. However, existing interactive clarification approaches face two critical limitations: reliance on manu

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Do Large Language Models excel in Complex Logical Reasoning with Formal Language?

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to achieve breakthrough performances on complex logical reasoning tasks. Nevertheless, most existing research focuses on employing formal language to guide LLMs for deriving reliable reasoning paths, with systematic evaluations of these capabilities still

2025

GenWebNovel: A Genre-oriented Corpus of Entities in Chinese Web Novels

COLING 2025main

Entities are important to understanding literary works, which emphasize characters, plots and environment. The research on entity recognition, especially nested entity recognition in the literary domain is still insufficient partly due to insufficient annotated data. To address this issue, we constr…

2025

Let LRMs Break Free from Overthinking via Self-Braking Tuning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large reasoning models (LRMs), such as OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have significantly enhanced their reasoning capabilities by generating longer chains of thought, demonstrating outstanding performance across a variety of tasks. However, this performance gain comes at the cost of a substantial increa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

LogicPro: Improving Complex Logical Reasoning via Program-Guided Learning

ACL 2025long

In this paper, we propose a new data synthesis method called LogicPro, which leverages LeetCode-style algorithm Problems and their corresponding Program solutions to synthesize Complex Logical Reasoning data in text format. First, we synthesize complex reasoning problems through source algorithm pro…

2025

Mind the Gap: Bridging Thought Leap for Improved Chain-of-Thought Tuning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on mathematical tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, existing mathematical CoT datasets often suffer from **Thought Leaps** due to experts omitting intermediate steps, which negatively impacts model learning and gener…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

SILC-EFSA: Self-aware In-context Learning Correction for Entity-level Financial Sentiment Analysis

COLING 2025main

In recent years, fine-grained sentiment analysis in finance has gained significant attention, but the scarcity of entity-level datasets remains a key challenge. To address this, we have constructed the largest English and Chinese financial entity-level sentiment analysis datasets to date. Building o…

2025

S^3cMath: Spontaneous Step-Level Self-Correction Makes Large Language Models Better Mathematical Reasoners

AAAI 2025technical

Self-correction is a novel method that can stimulate the potential reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). It involves detecting and correcting errors during the inference process when LLMs solve reasoning problems. However, recent works do not regard self-correction as a spontaneous an…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2025

To Answer or Not to Answer (TAONA): A Robust Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering Approach

EMNLP 2025

Recently, textual graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) has gained popularity for addressing hallucinations in large language models when answering domain-specific questions. Most existing studies assume that generated answers should comprehensively integrate all relevant information

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

UGPhysics: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Undergraduate Physics Reasoning with Large Language Models

ICML 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex reasoning tasks, particularly in mathematics. However, the domain of physics reasoning presents unique challenges that have received significantly less attention. Existing benchmarks often fall short in evaluat…

2024

Graph Mixup on Approximate Gromov–Wasserstein Geodesics

ICML 2024poster

Mixup, which generates synthetic training samples on the data manifold, has been shown to be highly effective in augmenting Euclidean data. However, finding a proper data manifold for graph data is non-trivial, as graphs are non-Euclidean data in disparate spaces. Though efforts have been made, most…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

Rethinking Human Evaluation Protocol for Text-to-Video Models: Enhancing Reliability, Reproducibility, and Practicality

NeurIPS 2024poster

Recent text-to-video (T2V) technology advancements, as demonstrated by models such as Gen2, Pika, and Sora, have significantly broadened its applicability and popularity. Despite these strides, evaluating these models poses substantial challenges. Primarily, due to the limitations inherent in auto…

2024

SLOG: An Inductive Spectral Graph Neural Network Beyond Polynomial Filter

ICML 2024poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited superb power in many graph related tasks. Existing GNNs can be categorized into spatial GNNs and spectral GNNs. The spatial GNNs primarily capture the local information around each node, while the spectral GNNs are able to operate on the frequency signals…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Sterling: Synergistic Representation Learning on Bipartite Graphs

AAAI 2024technical

A fundamental challenge of bipartite graph representation learning is how to extract informative node embeddings. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) is a promising paradigm to address this challenge. Most recent bipartite graph SSL methods are based on contrastive learning which learns embeddings by dis…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2024

Triad: A Framework Leveraging a Multi-Role LLM-based Agent to Solve Knowledge Base Question Answering

EMNLP 2024main

Recent progress with LLM-based agents has shown promising results across various tasks. However, their use in answering questions from knowledge bases remains largely unexplored. Implementing a KBQA system using traditional methods is challenging due to the shortage of task-specific training data an…

2023

From Trainable Negative Depth to Edge Heterophily in Graphs

NeurIPS 2023poster

Finding the proper depth $d$ of a graph convolutional network (GCN) that provides strong representation ability has drawn significant attention, yet nonetheless largely remains an open problem for the graph learning community. Although noteworthy progress has been made, the depth or the number of…

Cited by 27SourcePDFScholar
2023

Noisy Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Self-Training for Speculative Knowledge Graph Reasoning

ACL 2023findings

This paper studies speculative reasoning task on real-world knowledge graphs (KG) that contain both false negative issue (i.e., potential true facts being excluded) and false positive issue (i.e., unreliable or outdated facts being included). State-of-the-art methods fall short in the speculative re…

2023

Reconciling Competing Sampling Strategies of Network Embedding

NeurIPS 2023poster

Network embedding plays a significant role in a variety of applications. To capture the topology of the network, most of the existing network embedding algorithms follow a sampling training procedure, which maximizes the similarity (e.g., embedding vectors' dot product) between positively sampled no…

2022

EE-Net: Exploitation-Exploration Neural Networks in Contextual Bandits

ICLR 2022spotlight

In this paper, we propose a novel neural exploration strategy in contextual bandits, EE-Net, distinct from the standard UCB-based and TS-based approaches. Contextual multi-armed bandits have been studied for decades with various applications. To solve the exploitation-exploration tradeoff in bandits…