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Zenan Li

22 accepted papers

2026

AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms

ICML 2026spotlight

Vericoding refers to the generation of formally verified code from rigorous specifications. Recent AI models show promise in vericoding, but a unified methodology for cross-paradigm evaluation is lacking. Existing benchmarks test only an individual language/tool (e.g., Dafny, Verus, and Lean) and ea…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Bridging Your Imagination with Audio-Video Generation via a Unified Director

ICML 2026poster

Existing AI-driven video creation systems typically treat script drafting and key-shot design as two disjoint tasks: the former relies on large language models, while the latter depends on image generation models. We argue that these two tasks should be unified within a single framework, as logical …

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2026

Euclean: Automated Geometry Problem Formalization with Unified Verification in Lean

ICML 2026poster

Recent formal reasoning systems achieve IMO-level performance, but create a fragmented landscape: algebra and number theory use Lean, while geometry relies on domain-specific languages with limited formal guarantees. This fragmentation increases the trusted computing base and hinders unified model d…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Fair Conformal Classification via Learning Representation-Based Groups

ICLR 2026poster

Conformal prediction methods provide statistically rigorous marginal coverage guarantees for machine learning models, but such guarantees fail to account for algorithmic biases, thereby undermining fairness and trust. This paper introduces a fair conformal inference framework for classification task…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

FormalML: A Benchmark for Evaluating Formal Subgoal Completion in Machine Learning Theory

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable progress in formal theorem proving. Yet their ability to serve as practical assistants for mathematicians—filling in missing steps within complex proofs—remains underexplored. We identify this challenge as the task of subgoal complet…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Video-As-Prompt: Unified Semantic Control for Video Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Unified, generalizable semantic control in video generation remains a critical open challenge. Existing methods either introduce artifacts by enforcing inappropriate pixel-wise priors from structure-based controls, or rely on non-generalizable, condition-specific finetuning or task-specific architec…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

A Theoretical Study on Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for LLM Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Test-time scaling seeks to improve the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs) by adding computational resources. A prevalent approach within the field is *sampling-based test-time scaling methods*, which enhance reasoning by generating multiple reasoning paths for a given input during…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Decoupling Training-Free Guided Diffusion by ADMM

CVPR 2025poster

In this paper, we consider the conditional generation problem by guiding off-the-shelf unconditional diffusion models with differentiable loss functions in a plug-and-play fashion. While previous research has primarily focused on balancing the unconditional diffusion model and the guided loss throug…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Proving Olympiad Inequalities by Synergizing LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning

ICLR 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) can prove mathematical theorems formally by generating proof steps (\textit{a.k.a.} tactics) within a proof system. However, the space of possible tactics is vast and complex, while the available training data for formal proofs is limited, posing a significant challenge…

2025

Reviving DSP for Advanced Theorem Proving in the Era of Reasoning Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advancements, such as DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B and Kimina-Prover-Preview-72B, demonstrate a prevailing trend in leveraging reinforcement learning (RL)-based large-scale training for automated theorem proving. Surprisingly, we discover that even without any training, careful neuro-symbolic coor…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Autoformalize Mathematical Statements by Symbolic Equivalence and Semantic Consistency

NeurIPS 2024poster

Autoformalization, the task of automatically translating natural language descriptions into a formal language, poses a significant challenge across various domains, especially in mathematics. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have unveiled their promising capabilities to formalize…

2024

Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving with Hierarchical Latent Skills

ICRA 2024poster

Learning-based vehicle planning is receiving increasing attention with the emergence of diverse driving simulators and large-scale driving datasets. While offline reinforcement learning (RL) is well suited for these safety-critical tasks, it still struggles to plan over extended periods. In this wor…

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2024

Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning

NeurIPS 2024poster

A critical question about Large Language Models (LLMs) is whether their apparent deficiency in mathematical reasoning is inherent, or merely a result of insufficient exposure to high-quality mathematical data. To explore this, we developed an automated method for generating high-quality, supervised…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2024

Uncertainty-Aware Decision Transformer for Stochastic Driving Environments

CoRL 2024poster

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables policy learning without active interactions, making it especially appealing for self-driving tasks. Recent successes of Transformers inspire casting offline RL as sequence modeling, which, however, fails in stochastic environments with incorrect assumption…

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2023

Learning with Logical Constraints but without Shortcut Satisfaction

ICLR 2023top-25%

Recent studies have started to explore the integration of logical knowledge into deep learning via encoding logical constraints as an additional loss function. However, existing approaches tend to vacuously satisfy logical constraints through shortcuts, failing to fully exploit the knowledge. In thi…

2023

Neuro-symbolic Learning Yielding Logical Constraints

NeurIPS 2023poster

Neuro-symbolic systems combine the abilities of neural perception and logical reasoning. However, end-to-end learning of neuro-symbolic systems is still an unsolved challenge. This paper proposes a natural framework that fuses neural network training, symbol grounding, and logical constraint synthes…

2023

ROCO: A General Framework for Evaluating Robustness of Combinatorial Optimization Solvers on Graphs

ICLR 2023poster

Solving combinatorial optimization (CO) on graphs has been attracting increasing interests from the machine learning community whereby data-driven approaches were recently devised to go beyond traditional manually-designated algorithms. In this paper, we study the robustness of a combinatorial solve…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2023

Softened Symbol Grounding for Neuro-symbolic Systems

ICLR 2023poster

Neuro-symbolic learning generally consists of two separated worlds, i.e., neural network training and symbolic constraint solving, whose success hinges on symbol grounding, a fundamental problem in AI. This paper presents a novel, softened symbol grounding process, bridging the gap between the two…

2022

A Deep Learning Dataloader with Shared Data Preparation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Executing a family of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) training jobs on the same or similar datasets in parallel is typical in current deep learning scenarios. It is time-consuming and resource-intensive because each job repetitively prepares (i.e., loads and preprocesses) the data independently, causing…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2022

GraphDE: A Generative Framework for Debiased Learning and Out-of-Distribution Detection on Graphs

NeurIPS 2022accept

Despite the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) for graph representation learning, they are generally built on the (unreliable) i.i.d. assumption across training and testing data. However, real-world graph data are universally comprised of outliers in training set and out-of-distribut…

2022

NodeFormer: A Scalable Graph Structure Learning Transformer for Node Classification

NeurIPS 2022accept

Graph neural networks have been extensively studied for learning with inter-connected data. Despite this, recent evidence has revealed GNNs' deficiencies related to over-squashing, heterophily, handling long-range dependencies, edge incompleteness and particularly, the absence of graphs altogether.…

2022

On Collective Robustness of Bagging Against Data Poisoning

ICML 2022spotlight

Bootstrap aggregating (bagging) is an effective ensemble protocol, which is believed can enhance robustness by its majority voting mechanism. Recent works further prove the sample-wise robustness certificates for certain forms of bagging (e.g. partition aggregation). Beyond these particular forms, i…