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Zhaohui Yang

15 accepted papers

2026

Teach to Reason Safely: Policy-Guided Safety Tuning for MLRMs

ICLR 2026poster

Multimodal Large Reasoning Models (MLRMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities in complex multimodal tasks. However, our findings reveal a critical trade-off: reasoning-based models are more prone to generating harmful content, leading to degradation in safety performance. This paper presents a la…

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2025

Beyond the First Error: Process Reward Models for Reflective Mathematical Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Many studies focus on data annotation techniques for training effective PRMs. However, current methods encounter a significant issue when applied to long CoT reasoning processes: they tend to focus solely on the first incorrect step and all preceding steps, assuming that all subsequent steps are inc

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2025

Unearthing Gems from Stones: Policy Optimization with Negative Sample Augmentation for LLM Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in reasoning language models have witnessed a paradigm shift from short to long CoT pattern. Given the substantial computational cost of rollouts in long CoT models, maximizing the utility of fixed training datasets becomes crucial. Our analysis reveals that negative responses contai

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2024

Optimizing Synchronization Delay for Digital Twin over Wireless Networks

ICASSP 2024accepted

In this paper, the problem of low-latency communication and computation resource allocation for digital twin (DT) over wireless networks is investigated. In the considered model, multiple physical devices in the physical network (PN) needs to frequently offload the computation task related data to t…

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2021

Energy Minimization for Federated Learning with IRS-Assisted Over-the-Air Computation

ICASSP 2021accepted

This paper investigates the deployment of federated learning (FL) over an over-the-air computation (AirComp) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) based wireless network. In the considered system, devices transmit locally trained machine learning (ML) models to the base station (BS) which aggrega…

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2021

HourNAS: Extremely Fast Neural Architecture Search Through an Hourglass Lens

CVPR 2021poster

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to automatically discover optimal architectures. In this paper, we propose an hourglass-inspired approach (HourNAS) for extremely fast NAS. It is motivated by the fact that the effects of the architecture often proceed from the vital few blocks. Acting like the…

Cited by 27PDFScholar
2020

CARS: Continuous Evolution for Efficient Neural Architecture Search

CVPR 2020poster

Searching techniques in most of existing neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms are mainly dominated by differentiable methods for the efficiency reason. In contrast, we develop an efficient continuous evolutionary approach for searching neural networks. Architectures in the population that sha…

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2020

Hit-Detector: Hierarchical Trinity Architecture Search for Object Detection

CVPR 2020poster

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has achieved great success in image classification task. Some recent works have managed to explore the automatic design of efficient backbone or feature fusion layer for object detection. However, these methods focus on searching only one certain component of object…

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2020

Searching for Low-Bit Weights in Quantized Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2020poster

Quantized neural networks with low-bit weights and activations are attractive for developing AI accelerators. However, the quantization functions used in most conventional quantization methods are non-differentiable, which increases the optimization difficulty of quantized networks. Compared with fu…

Cited by 115SourcePDFScholar
2019

Data-Free Learning of Student Networks

ICCV 2019poster

Learning portable neural networks is very essential for computer vision for the purpose that pre-trained heavy deep models can be well applied on edge devices such as mobile phones and micro sensors. Most existing deep neural network compression and speed-up methods are very effective for training c…

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2019

LegoNet: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks with Lego Filters

ICML 2019oral

This paper aims to build efficient convolutional neural networks using a set of Lego filters. Many successful building blocks, e.g., inception and residual modules, have been designed to refresh state-of-the-art records of CNNs on visual recognition tasks. Beyond these high-level modules, we suggest…