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Zhichao Chen

15 accepted papers

2026

Efficient, Validation-Free Intrinsic Quality Estimation for Large-Scale Face Recognition Datasets

ICML 2026poster

We propose Intrinsic Quality (IQ), a validation-free metric designed to estimate the inherent potential of face recognition (FR) datasets to produce high-performance models without the need for full-scale training. IQ integrates two components: (i) a Neighbor-Consistency Score that quantifies local …

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

From Text to Talk: Audio-Language Model Needs Non-Autoregressive Joint Training

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant interest in extending their capabilities to multimodal scenarios, particularly for speech-to-speech conversational systems. However, existing multimodal models handling interleaved audio and text rely on autoregressive (AR) m…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Rethinking the Flow-based Gradual Domain Adaption: A Semi-Dual Optimal Transport Perspective

ICML 2026poster

Gradual Domain Adaption (GDA) aims to mitigate domain shift by progressively adapting models from the source domain to the target domain via intermediate domains. However, real intermediate domains are often unavailable or ineffective, necessitating the synthesis of intermediate samples. Flow-based …

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2026

Unbiased Reward Modeling from Implicit Preference

ICML 2026poster

Despite the success of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in aligning language models, current reward modeling heavily relies on explicit preference data with high collection costs. In this work, we study implicit reward modeling---learning reward models from implicit human feedback--…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

FreDF: Learning to Forecast in the Frequency Domain

ICLR 2025poster

Time series modeling presents unique challenges due to autocorrelation in both historical data and future sequences. While current research predominantly addresses autocorrelation within historical data, the correlations among future labels are often overlooked. Specifically, modern forecasting mode…

2025

Image-Goal Navigation Using Refined Feature Guidance and Scene Graph Enhancement

IROS 2025

In this paper, we introduce a novel image-goal navigation approach, named RFSG. Our focus lies in leveraging the fine-grained connections between goals, observations, and the environment within limited image data, all the while keeping the navigation architecture simple and lightweight. To this end,

Cited by 3SourcecodeScholar
2025

Inverse Methods for Missing Data Imputation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Iterative imputation is a prevalent method for completing missing data, which involves iteratively imputing each feature by treating it as a target variable and predicting its missing values using the remaining features. However, existing iterative imputation methods exhibit two critical defects: (…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Optimal Distributed Training With Co-Adaptive Data Parallelism in Heterogeneous Environments

IJCAI 2025

The computational power required for training deep learning models has been skyrocketing in the past decade as they scale with big data, and has become a very expensive and scarce resource. Therefore, distributed training, which can leverage distributed available computational power, is vital for ef

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Optimal Transport for Time Series Imputation

ICLR 2025poster

Missing data imputation through distribution alignment has demonstrated advantages for non-temporal datasets but exhibits suboptimal performance in time-series applications. The primary obstacle is crafting a discrepancy measure that simultaneously (1) captures temporal patterns—accounting for perio…

2025

Time-o1: Time-Series Forecasting Needs Transformed Label Alignment

NeurIPS 2025poster

Training time-series forecast models presents unique challenges in designing effective learning objectives. Existing methods predominantly utilize the temporal mean squared error, which faces two critical challenges: (1) label autocorrelation, which leads to bias from the label sequence likelihood;…

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2025

Unbiased Recommender Learning from Implicit Feedback via Weakly Supervised Learning

ICML 2025poster

Implicit feedback recommendation is challenged by the missing negative feedback essential for effective model training. Existing methods often resort to negative sampling, a technique that assumes unlabeled interactions as negative samples. This assumption risks misclassifying potential positive sam…

2024

Rethinking the Diffusion Models for Missing Data Imputation: A Gradient Flow Perspective

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion models have demonstrated competitive performance in missing data imputation (MDI) task. However, directly applying diffusion models to MDI produces suboptimal performance due to two primary defects. First, the sample diversity promoted by diffusion models hinders the accurate inference of…

2023

Optimal Transport for Treatment Effect Estimation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Estimating individual treatment effects from observational data is challenging due to treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mainly mitigate this issue by aligning different treatment groups in the latent space, the core of which is the calculation of distribution discrepancy. However, two issu…

Cited by 58SourcePDFScholar
2023

Outperformance of Mall-Receptionist Android as Inverse Reinforcement Learning is Transitioned to Reinforcement Learning

RA-L 2023

Robots can tackle human–robot interaction (HRI) tasks through inverse reinforcement learning (IRL). However, offline IRL agents' performance is upper-bounded by experts. Limited demonstration fails to provide an overall picture of the environment, especially in real-world applications. To further en

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2022

Android as a Receptionist in a Shopping Mall Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning

RA-L 2022

For human-robot interaction (HRI), it is difficult to hand-craft all the rules for robots owing to diverse situations. Therefore, inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is a potential solution that helps transfer human knowledge about interactions to robots. However, the feasibility of practically usi

Cited by 4SourceScholar