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Publications (37)

quant-ph2025

Quantum Circuit Synthesis and Compilation Optimization: Overview and Prospects

Ge Yan, Wenjie Wu, Yuheng Chen +6

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm that may overcome the current computational power bottlenecks. The increasing maturity of quantum processors provides more possibilities f…

cs.RO2025

Integrating LMM Planners and 3D Skill Policies for Generalizable Manipulation

Yuelei Li, Ge Yan, Annabella Macaluso +3

The recent advancements in visual reasoning capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs) and the semantic enrichment of 3D feature fields have expanded the horizons of robotic ca…

cs.LG2025

Evaluating Neuron Explanations: A Unified Framework with Sanity Checks

Tuomas Oikarinen, Ge Yan, Tsui-Wei Weng

Understanding the function of individual units in a neural network is an important building block for mechanistic interpretability. This is often done by generating a simple text e…

math.NA2021

Entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin difference methods for hyperbolic conservation laws

Ge Yan, Sharanjeet Kaur, Jeffery W. Banks +1

The paper describes the construction of entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin difference (DGD) discretizations for hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured grids. The construct…

cs.CL2025

ReFIne: A Framework for Trustworthy Large Reasoning Models with Reliability, Faithfulness, and Interpretability

Chung-En Sun, Ge Yan, Akshay Kulkarni +1

Recent advances in long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning have largely prioritized answer accuracy and token efficiency, while overlooking aspects critical to trustworthiness. We ar…

quant-ph2026

Efficient foundation decoders for fault-tolerant quantum computing

Ge Yan, Shanchuan Li, Shiyi Xiao +4

Foundation decoders, a class of high-capacity neural decoders, are leading candidates for fault-tolerant quantum computing, with accurate and efficient decoding at large code dista…

cs.CL2025

ThinkEdit: Interpretable Weight Editing to Mitigate Overly Short Thinking in Reasoning Models

Chung-En Sun, Ge Yan, Tsui-Wei Weng

Recent studies have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) augmented with chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning demonstrate impressive problem-solving abilities. However, in this work,…

cs.IT2025

Movable and Reconfigurable Antennas for 6G: Unlocking Electromagnetic-Domain Design and Optimization

Lipeng Zhu, Haobin Mao, Ge Yan +3

The growing demands of 6G mobile communication networks necessitate advanced antenna technologies. Movable antennas (MAs) and reconfigurable antennas (RAs) enable dynamic control o…

eess.SP2023

Channel Autocorrelation Estimation for IRS-Aided Wireless Communications Based on Power Measurements

Ge Yan, Lipeng Zhu, Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can bring significant performance enhancement for wireless communication systems by reconfiguring wireless channels via passive signal reflecti…

cs.LG2024

Provably Robust Conformal Prediction with Improved Efficiency

Ge Yan, Yaniv Romano, Tsui-Wei Weng

Conformal prediction is a powerful tool to generate uncertainty sets with guaranteed coverage using any predictive model, under the assumption that the training and test data are i…

quant-ph2026

Universal 2-Local Symmetry-Preserving Quantum Neural Networks for Fermionic Systems

Ge Yan, Kaisen Pan, Ruocheng Wang +3

Simulating quantum many-body systems represents a fundamental challenge where classical machine learning methods are severely bottlenecked by the exponential curse of dimensionalit…

cs.CV2025

Beyond Top Activations: Efficient and Reliable Crowdsourced Evaluation of Automated Interpretability

Tuomas Oikarinen, Ge Yan, Akshay Kulkarni +1

Interpreting individual neurons or directions in activation space is an important topic in mechanistic interpretability. Numerous automated interpretability methods have been propo…

eess.SP2024

Power Measurement Enabled Channel Autocorrelation Matrix Estimation for IRS-Assisted Wireless Communication

Ge Yan, Lipeng Zhu, Rui Zhang

By reconfiguring wireless channels via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can bring significant performance enhancement for wireless communication syst…

cs.CV2025

VLG-CBM: Training Concept Bottleneck Models with Vision-Language Guidance

Divyansh Srivastava, Ge Yan, Tsui-Wei Weng

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide interpretable prediction by introducing an intermediate Concept Bottleneck Layer (CBL), which encodes human-understandable concepts to expl…

cs.AI2025

ReflCtrl: Controlling LLM Reflection via Representation Engineering

Ge Yan, Chung-En Sun, Tsui-Wei +1

Large language models (LLMs) with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning have achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, including mathematics, coding, and general reasoning. A di…

cs.CL2026

LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning

Chung-En Sun, Linbo Liu, Ge Yan +2

Tool-augmented LLM agents tend to call tools indiscriminately, even when the model can answer directly. Each unnecessary call wastes API fees and latency, yet no existing benchmark…

math.NA2025

Constructing stable, high-order finite-difference operators on point clouds over complex geometries

Jason Hicken, Ge Yan, Sharanjeet Kaur

High-order difference operators with the summation-by-parts (SBP) property can be used to build stable discretizations of hyperbolic conservation laws; however, most high-order SBP…

eess.SP2026

Slow Movable Antenna System Design Based on Cell-Specific Long-Term Angular Power Spectrum

Ge Yan, Lipeng Zhu, Wenyan Ma +1

Movable antenna (MA) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting spatial degrees of freedom through flexible antenna…

cs.AR2025

On Reducing the Execution Latency of Superconducting Quantum Processors via Quantum Job Scheduling

Wenjie Wu, Yiquan Wang, Ge Yan +3

Quantum computing has gained considerable attention, especially after the arrival of the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Quantum processors and cloud services have bee…

cs.RO2024

DNAct: Diffusion Guided Multi-Task 3D Policy Learning

Ge Yan, Yueh-Hua Wu, Xiaolong Wang

This paper presents DNAct, a language-conditioned multi-task policy framework that integrates neural rendering pre-training and diffusion training to enforce multi-modality learnin…

cs.RO2025

Humanoid Policy ~ Human Policy

Ri-Zhao Qiu, Shiqi Yang, Xuxin Cheng +12

Training manipulation policies for humanoid robots with diverse data enhances their robustness and generalization across tasks and platforms. However, learning solely from robot de…

cs.CL2026

Steer2Edit: From Activation Steering to Component-Level Editing

Chung-En Sun, Ge Yan, Zimo Wang +1

Steering methods influence Large Language Model behavior by identifying semantic directions in hidden representations, but are typically realized through inference-time activation…

cs.CL2025

SciDA: Scientific Dynamic Assessor of LLMs

Junting Zhou, Tingjia Miao, Yiyan Liao +15

Advancement in Large Language Models (LLMs) reasoning capabilities enables them to solve scientific problems with enhanced efficacy. Thereby, a high-quality benchmark for comprehen…

cs.CV2025

RAT: Boosting Misclassification Detection Ability without Extra Data

Ge Yan, Tsui-Wei Weng

As deep neural networks(DNN) become increasingly prevalent, particularly in high-stakes areas such as autonomous driving and healthcare, the ability to detect incorrect predictions…

eess.SP2025

Movable Antenna Aided Multiuser Communications: Antenna Position Optimization Based on Statistical Channel Information

Ge Yan, Lipeng Zhu, Rui Zhang

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted great attention recently due to its promising capability in improving wireless channel conditions by flexibly adjusting antenna po…

eess.SP2025

Wideband Coverage Enhancement for IRS-Aided Wireless Networks Based on Power Measurement

Ge Yan, Lipeng Zhu, He Sun +1

By applying tunable phase shifts to incident waves via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can offer significant performance improvement for wireless co…

quant-ph2026

Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Quantum Error Correction Codes

Hanyan Cao, Ge Yan, Yuxuan Du +1

Quantum error correction (QEC) is indispensable for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation, yet its effectiveness hinges critically on the classical decoding algorithm that i…

cs.CV2026

Multimodal Concept Bottleneck Models

Tongqing Shi, Ge Yan, Tuomas Oikarinen +1

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of deep learning networks by aligning the features extracted from images with natural concepts. However, existing CBMs…

cs.RO2025

Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models

Embodiment Collaboration, Abby O'Neill, Abdul Rehman +291

Large, high-capacity models trained on diverse datasets have shown remarkable successes on efficiently tackling downstream applications. In domains from NLP to Computer Vision, thi…

cs.AI2025

Faithful and Stable Neuron Explanations for Trustworthy Mechanistic Interpretability

Ge Yan, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tsui-Wei +1

Neuron identification is a popular tool in mechanistic interpretability, aiming to uncover the human-interpretable concepts represented by individual neurons in deep networks. Whil…

cs.RO2024

GNFactor: Multi-Task Real Robot Learning with Generalizable Neural Feature Fields

Yanjie Ze, Ge Yan, Yueh-Hua Wu +6

It is a long-standing problem in robotics to develop agents capable of executing diverse manipulation tasks from visual observations in unstructured real-world environments. To ach…

cs.RO2025

ManiFlow: A General Robot Manipulation Policy via Consistency Flow Training

Ge Yan, Jiyue Zhu, Yuquan Deng +8

This paper introduces ManiFlow, a visuomotor imitation learning policy for general robot manipulation that generates precise, high-dimensional actions conditioned on diverse visual…

cs.CV2025

Interpretable Generative Models through Post-hoc Concept Bottlenecks

Akshay Kulkarni, Ge Yan, Chung-En Sun +2

Concept bottleneck models (CBM) aim to produce inherently interpretable models that rely on human-understandable concepts for their predictions. However, existing approaches to des…

quant-ph2025

Sample-efficient quantum error mitigation via classical learning surrogates

Wei-You Liao, Ge Yan, Yujin Song +5

The pursuit of practical quantum utility on near-term quantum processors is critically challenged by their inherent noise. Quantum error mitigation (QEM) techniques are leading sol…

quant-ph2026

Rethink the Role of Neural Decoders in Quantum Error Correction

Ge Yan, Shanchuan Li, Yuxuan Du

Quantum error correction (QEC) is essential for enabling quantum advantages, with decoding as a central algorithmic primitive. Owing to its importance and intrinsic difficulty, sub…

cs.LG2026

Distance Marching for Generative Modeling

Zimo Wang, Ishit Mehta, Haolin Lu +4

Time-unconditional generative models learn time-independent denoising vector fields. But without time conditioning, the same noisy input may correspond to multiple noise levels and…

quant-ph2026

OmniQEC: discovering practical quantum error-correcting codes by an AI scientist

Ge Yan, Shanchuan Li, Pengyue Ma +5

Quantum error correction (QEC) is indispensable for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, discovering QEC codes that remain effective is challenging, as logical perfo…