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Publications (90)

eess.SP2021

AI Enlightens Wireless Communication: Analyses, Solutions and Opportunities on CSI Feedback

Han Xiao, Zhiqin Wang, Wenqiang Tian +6

In this paper, we give a systematic description of the 1st Wireless Communication Artificial Intelligence (AI) Competition (WAIC) which is hosted by IMT-2020(5G) Promotion Group 5G…

cs.SI2015

Predicting Neighbor Distribution in Heterogeneous Information Networks

Yuchi Ma, Ning Yang, Chuan Li +2

Recently, considerable attention has been devoted to the prediction problems arising from heterogeneous information networks. In this paper, we present a new prediction task, Neigh…

math.CO2025

On decycling and forest numbers of Cartesian products of trees

Ali Ghalavand, Sandi Klavžar, Ning Yang

The decycling number of a graph is the minimum number of vertices that must be removed to eliminate all cycles in . The forest number is the maximum numbe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

AI2Pot: A scalable and unified framework for machine-learning interatomic potential development and large-scale molecular dynamic simulations

Hanyu Liu, Linggang Zhu, Xuanguang Zhang +3

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) bridge the accuracy of first-principles calculations and the efficiency required for large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations…

cs.NI2023

Multi-objective Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Edge Computing

Ning Yang, Junrui Wen, Meng Zhang +1

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is essential for next-generation mobile network applications that prioritize various performance metrics, including delays and energy consumption. Howev…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive and Robust Data Poisoning Detection and Sanitization in Wearable IoT Systems using Large Language Models

W. K. M Mithsara, Ning Yang, Ahmed Imteaj +2

The widespread integration of wearable sensing devices in Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, particularly in healthcare, smart homes, and industrial applications, has required ro…

cs.MM2026

Chain-of-Thought Compression Should Not Be Blind: V-Skip for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Dual-Path Anchoring

Dongxu Zhang, Yiding Sun, Cheng Tan +4

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning significantly enhances the performance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), its autoregressive nature incurs prohibitive latency cons…

cs.CL2026

Not All Queries Need Deep Thought: CoFiCot for Adaptive Coarse-to-fine Stateful Refinement

Dongxu Zhang, Hongqiang Lin, Yiding Sun +4

Scaling test-time computation enhances LLM reasoning ability but faces a uniform computation paradox. Allocating identical resources leads to over-correction on simple tasks and in…

cs.RO2026

WAM-Nav: Asymmetric Latent World-Action Modeling for Unified Visual Navigation

Ning Yang, Yan Huang, Kaiwen Peng +9

Visual navigation requires generating smooth and collision-free trajectories under complex geometric and physical constraints. Existing reactive policies that directly map observat…

cs.AI2026

Token-Importance Guided Direct Preference Optimization

Ning Yang, Hai Lin, Yibo Liu +3

Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences is crucial for safe and effective AI interactions. While popular methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have…

cs.SI2017

Collaborative Inference of Coexisting Information Diffusions

Yanchao Sun, Cong Qian, Ning Yang +1

Recently, \textit{diffusion history inference} has become an emerging research topic due to its great benefits for various applications, whose purpose is to reconstruct the missing…

cs.LG2026

SDO: Structure-Aware Data Organization for Efficient LLM Post-Training

Jinliang Gao, Ning Yang, Hai Wang +2

The paper introduces SDO, a plug‑and‑play framework that dynamically organizes training data for large language model post‑training by using exposure‑driven feedback and K‑nearest‑…

#large language model fine-tuning#data organization#exposure balancing#knn batching
eess.SP2022

AI Enlightens Wireless Communication: A Transformer Backbone for CSI Feedback

Han Xiao, Zhiqin Wang, Dexin Li +7

This paper is based on the background of the 2nd Wireless Communication Artificial Intelligence (AI) Competition (WAIC) which is hosted by IMT-2020(5G) Promotion Group 5G+AIWork Gr…

cs.RO2026

SKIP: Sparse Keyframe Interpolation Paradigm for Efficient Embodied World Models

Ziheng He, Yixiang Chen, Ning Yang +11

Embodied world models have emerged as a promising paradigm in robotics by predicting how robot actions affect the surrounding scene. However, the rollout inference remains computat…

cs.RO2020

Mechatronics-Driven Musical Expressivity for Robotic Percussionists

Ning Yang, Richard Savery, Raghavasimhan Sankaranarayanan +2

Musical expressivity is an important aspect of musical performance for humans as well as robotic musicians. We present a novel mechatronics-driven implementation of Brushless Direc…

cs.LG2024

Large Language Model Integrated Healthcare Cyber-Physical Systems Architecture

Malithi Wanniarachchi Kankanamge, Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Abdur R. Shahid +1

Cyber-physical systems have become an essential part of the modern healthcare industry. The healthcare cyber-physical systems (HCPS) combine physical and cyber components to improv…

cs.LG2025

Negative Metric Learning for Graphs

Yiyang Zhao, Chengpei Wu, Lilin Zhang +1

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) often suffers from false negatives, which degrades the performance on downstream tasks. The existing methods addressing the false negative issue us…

cs.LG2025

TW-CRL: Time-Weighted Contrastive Reward Learning for Efficient Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Yuxuan Li, Yicheng Gao, Ning Yang +1

Episodic tasks in Reinforcement Learning (RL) often pose challenges due to sparse reward signals and high-dimensional state spaces, which hinder efficient learning. Additionally, t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2006

Aharonov-Bohm phase operations on a double-barrier nanoring charge qubit

Yuquan Wang, Ning Yang, Jia-Lin Zhu

We present a scheme for charge qubit implementation in a double-barrier nanoring. The logical states of the qubit are encoded in the spatial wavefunctions of the two lowest energy…

cs.RO2025

Enhancing Efficiency and Propulsion in Bio-mimetic Robotic Fish through End-to-End Deep Reinforcement Learning

Xinyu Cui, Boai Sun, Yi Zhu +5

Aquatic organisms are known for their ability to generate efficient propulsion with low energy expenditure. While existing research has sought to leverage bio-inspired structures t…

quant-ph2025

Partitewise Entanglement

Yu Guo, Ning Yang

It is known that as a bipartite reduced state of the 3-qubit GHZ state is separable, but part and part indeed ``share tripartite entanglement'' in the GHZ state.…

cs.LG2024

Provable Unrestricted Adversarial Training without Compromise with Generalizability

Lilin Zhang, Ning Yang, Yanchao Sun +1

Adversarial training (AT) is widely considered as the most promising strategy to defend against adversarial attacks and has drawn increasing interest from researchers. However, the…

cs.NI2022

Many Field Packet Classification with Decomposition and Reinforcement Learning

Hasibul Jamil, Ning Yang, Ning Weng

Scalable packet classification is a key requirement to support scalable network applications like firewalls, intrusion detection, and differentiated services. With ever increasing…

cs.RO2026

Causal Reward World Models: Zero-shot Reward Design for Automated Skill Generation

Yang Yang, Yuchuang Tong, Zhengtao Zhang +6

Automated Reward Design (ARD) aims to replace manual reward engineering in reinforcement learning with language-driven reward function synthesis. However, existing approaches based…

cs.CV2026

EgoKit: Towards Unified Low-Cost Egocentric Data Collection with Heterogeneous Devices

Liuchuan Yu, Erdem Murat, Beichen Wang +10

Egocentric video is increasingly used as a data source for robot learning, activity understanding, and embodied AI research, but collecting it at scale remains fragmented in practi…

cs.LG2026

CompilerKV: Risk-Adaptive KV Compression via Offline Experience Compilation

Ning Yang, Chengzhi Wang, Yibo Liu +2

Prefill-only KV compression freezes a token subset at the end of prefill and decodes from it without further eviction. The retention decision is therefore irreversible, yet existin…

cs.LG2026

Cascade-KDE: Robust Time-Series Restoration under Out-of-Distribution Impulse Corruptions

Yuefeng Liu, Ning Yang, Ziyu Yang

Real-world time-series data in industrial sensing, healthcare, and energy systems is often corrupted by a mixture of Gaussian noise and occasional large-magnitude impulse outliers.…

cs.NI2026

Cooperative Edge Caching with Large Language Model in Wireless Networks

Ning Yang, Wentao Wang, Lingtao Ouyang +1

Cooperative edge caching in overlapping zones couples Base Station (BS) decisions, making content replacement sensitive to spatial topology and temporal reuse. Conventional heurist…

cs.SI2020

Deep Collaborative Embedding for information cascade prediction

Yuhui Zhao, Ning Yang, Tao Lin +1

Recently, information cascade prediction has attracted increasing interest from researchers, but it is far from being well solved partly due to the three defects of the existing wo…

math.GR2015

Cross-wired lamplighter groups and linearity of automata groups

Ning Yang

We consider the two generalizations of lamplighter groups: automata groups generated by Cayley machine and cross-wired lamplighter groups. For a finite step two nilpotent group wit…

cs.CV2025

Weakly Supervised Contrastive Adversarial Training for Learning Robust Features from Semi-supervised Data

Lilin Zhang, Chengpei Wu, Ning Yang

Existing adversarial training (AT) methods often suffer from incomplete perturbation, meaning that not all non-robust features are perturbed when generating adversarial examples (A…

cs.AI2026

SF-AMS: Strategic Forgetting for Structured Memory in LLM Agent

Ning Yang, Siqi Li, Miaoxin Shen +4

Managing long-context dependencies remains a primary bottleneck in LLM agents, as redundant and irrelevant information can degrade multi-step reasoning. Strategic Forgetting for Ag…

cs.LG2026

Multi-Turn Reasoning LLMs for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing

Ning Yang, Chuangxin Cheng, Haijun Zhang

Emerging computation-intensive applications impose stringent latency requirements on resource-constrained mobile devices. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) addresses this challenge throu…

quant-ph2026

Computable lower bound of the parameterized entanglement monotone

Ning Yang, Yu Guo, Shuanping Du

Although numerous measures of entanglement have been proposed so far, the calculation of a given faithful entanglement measure is a hard work since it is always involved in some op…

cs.IT2018

Secure Communications in NOMA System: Subcarrier Assignment and Power Allocation

Haijun Zhang, Ning Yang, Keping Long +3

Secure communication is a promising technology for wireless networks because it ensures secure transmission of information. In this paper, we investigate the joint subcarrier (SC)…

cs.CL2026

Breaking the MoE LLM Trilemma: Dynamic Expert Clustering with Structured Compression

Peijun Zhu, Ning Yang, Baoliang Tian +4

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Large Language Models (LLMs) face a trilemma of load imbalance, parameter redundancy, and communication overhead. We introduce a unified framework based on…

cs.IR2022

Multi-Sparse-Domain Collaborative Recommendation via Enhanced Comprehensive Aspect Preference Learning

Xiaoyun Zhao, Ning Yang, Philip S. Yu

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been attracting increasing attention of researchers for its ability to alleviate the data sparsity problem in recommender systems. However, th…

cs.LG2025

LCD: Advancing Extreme Low-Bit Clustering for Large Language Models via Knowledge Distillation

Fangxin Liu, Ning Yang, Junping Zhao +3

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant progress in natural language processing but face challenges in deployment due to high memory and computational requirements.…

cs.IR2024

Adaptive Fair Representation Learning for Personalized Fairness in Recommendations via Information Alignment

Xinyu Zhu, Lilin Zhang, Ning Yang

Personalized fairness in recommendations has been attracting increasing attention from researchers. The existing works often treat a fairness requirement, represented as a collecti…

cs.CL2026

Not All Errors Are Created Equal: ASCoT Addresses Late-Stage Fragility in Efficient LLM Reasoning

Dongxu Zhang, Yujun Wu, Yiding Sun +5

While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting empowers Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring reasoning reliability remains an open challenge. Contrary to the prevailing cascading failure…

cs.RO2025

XRoboToolkit: A Cross-Platform Framework for Robot Teleoperation

Zhigen Zhao, Liuchuan Yu, Ke Jing +1

The rapid advancement of Vision-Language-Action models has created an urgent need for large-scale, high-quality robot demonstration datasets. Although teleoperation is the predomin…

cs.IR2025

Denoised Recommendation Model with Collaborative Signal Decoupling

Zefeng Li, Ning Yang

Although the collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm has achieved remarkable performance in recommendation systems, it suffers from suboptimal recommendation performance due to nois…

cs.SE2025

Tree-of-Code: A Tree-Structured Exploring Framework for End-to-End Code Generation and Execution in Complex Task Handling

Ziyi Ni, Yifan Li, Ning Yang +3

Solving complex reasoning tasks is a key real-world application of agents. Thanks to the pretraining of Large Language Models (LLMs) on code data, recent approaches like CodeAct su…

eess.SY2025

Research on a Two-Layer Demand Response Framework for Electric Vehicle Users and Aggregators Based on LLMs

Zhaoyi Zhang, Chenggang Cui, Ning Yang +1

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has increased the importance of demand response in smart grids. This paper proposes a two-layer demand response optimization fram…

physics.app-ph2021

Local large temperature difference and ultra-wideband photothermoelectric response of the silver nanostructure film/carbon nanotube film heterostructure

Bocheng Lv, Weidong Wu, Yan Xie +7

Photothermoelectric materials have important applications in many fields. Here, we joined a silver nanostructure film (AgNSF) and a carbon nanotube film (CNTF) by van der Waals for…

cs.CV2022

Global-and-Local Collaborative Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection

Runmin Cong, Ning Yang, Chongyi Li +4

The goal of co-salient object detection (CoSOD) is to discover salient objects that commonly appear in a query group containing two or more relevant images. Therefore, how to effec…

cs.LG2026

Noise-Driven Exploration and Transient Freezing Select Flat Minima in Stochastic Gradient Descent

Ning Yang, Yikuan Zhang, Qi Ouyang +2

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is central to deep learning, yet the dynamical origin of its preference for flatter, more generalizable solutions remains unclear. Here, by analyz…

cs.CL2026

CrossCheck-Bench: Diagnosing Compositional Failures in Multimodal Conflict Resolution

Baoliang Tian, Yuxuan Si, Jilong Wang +13

Multimodal Large Language Models are primarily trained and evaluated on aligned image-text pairs, which leaves their ability to detect and resolve real-world inconsistencies largel…

cs.CL2026

Tencent WorkBuddy Bench: A Multi-Domain Coding-Agent Benchmark with Contamination-Resistant Task Construction

Tencent WorkBuddy Bench Team, Siqi Cai, Shaopeng Chen +35

We introduce Tencent WorkBuddy Bench, a multi-domain evaluation suite for coding agents; this report documents its construction methodology, scoring protocol, and a cross-model lea…

cs.SI2020

MLANE: Meta-Learning Based Adaptive Network Embedding

Chen Cui, Ning Yang, Philip S. Yu

Most existing random walk based network embedding methods often follow only one of two principles, homophily or structural equivalence. In real world networks, however, nodes exhib…

physics.app-ph2021

Realization of ultrabroadband THz/IR photoresponse in a bias-tunable ratchet photodetector

Peng Bai, Xiaohong Li, Ning Yang +14

High performance Terahertz (THz) photodetector has drawn wide attention and got great improvement due to its significant application in biomedical, astrophysics, nondestructive ins…

cs.IR2024

Cross-Domain Causal Preference Learning for Out-of-Distribution Recommendation

Zhuhang Li, Ning Yang

Recommender systems use users' historical interactions to learn their preferences and deliver personalized recommendations from a vast array of candidate items. Current recommender…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

One-step synthesis of van der Waals heterostructures of graphene and 2D superconducting a-Mo2C

Jia-Bin Qiao, Yue Gong, Wei-Jie Zuo +8

Assembling different two-dimensional (2D) crystals, covering a very broad range of properties, into van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures enables the unprecedented possibilities for…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Inverse orbital Hall effect induced terahertz emission enabled by a ferromagnet with quenched orbital moment in Fe/Pt/W trilayers

Chao Zhou, Lei Hao, Shaohua Zhang +10

The inverse orbital Hall effect (IOHE) has recently attracted considerable attention as an emerging mechanism for terahertz (THz) emission based on ultrafast angular-momentum-to-ch…

cs.AI2023

Minimizing Age of Information for Mobile Edge Computing Systems: A Nested Index Approach

Shuo Chen, Ning Yang, Meng Zhang +1

Exploiting the computational heterogeneity of mobile devices and edge nodes, mobile edge computation (MEC) provides an efficient approach to achieving real-time applications that a…

cs.IR2022

Time Lag Aware Sequential Recommendation

Lihua Chen, Ning Yang, Philip S Yu

Although a variety of methods have been proposed for sequential recommendation, it is still far from being well solved partly due to two challenges. First, the existing methods oft…

eess.SP2026

AI-Native 6G Physical Layer with Cross-Module Optimization and Cooperative Control Agents

Xufei Zheng, Han Xiao, Shi Jin +8

In this article, a framework of AI-native cross-module optimized physical layer with cooperative control agents is proposed, which involves optimization across global AI/ML modules…

cs.MA2024

Mean Field Correlated Imitation Learning

Zhiyu Zhao, Qirui Mi, Ning Yang +4

We investigate multi-agent imitation learning (IL) within the framework of mean field games (MFGs), considering the presence of time-varying correlated signals. Existing MFG IL alg…

cs.NI2025

Graph Attention Reinforcement Learning for Multicast Routing and Age-Optimal Scheduling

Yanning Zhang, Guocheng Liao, Shengbin Cao +3

Multicast routing is essential for real-time group applications, such as video streaming, virtual reality, and metaverse platforms, where the Age of Information (AoI) acts as a cru…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022

Stochastic gradient descent introduces an effective landscape-dependent regularization favoring flat solutions

Ning Yang, Chao Tang, Yuhai Tu

Generalization is one of the most important problems in deep learning (DL). In the overparameterized regime in neural networks, there exist many low-loss solutions that fit the tra…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Bound States in Nanoscale Graphene Quantum Dots in a Continuous Graphene Sheet

Jia-Bin Qiao, Hua Jiang, Haiwen Liu +4

Considerable efforts have been made to trap massless Dirac fermions in graphene monolayer, but only quasi-bound states are realized in continuous graphene sheets up to now. Here, w…

cond-mat.str-el2007

Vortex structures in few-electron quantum dots with spin degree of freedom

Ning Yang, Jia-Lin Zhu, Zhensheng Dai +1

The vortex structures and formations of the few-electron states in quantum dots without the Zeeman splitting are investigated. With spin degree of freedom, it is noticed that both…

cs.RO2025

Learn to Swim: Data-Driven LSTM Hydrodynamic Model for Quadruped Robot Gait Optimization

Fei Han, Pengming Guo, Hao Chen +5

This paper presents a Long Short-Term Memory network-based Fluid Experiment Data-Driven model (FED-LSTM) for predicting unsteady, nonlinear hydrodynamic forces on the underwater qu…

eess.IV2022

Boundary Guided Semantic Learning for Real-time COVID-19 Lung Infection Segmentation System

Runmin Cong, Yumo Zhang, Ning Yang +6

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to have a negative impact on healthcare systems around the world, though the vaccines have been developed and national vaccination…

cs.LG2025

Proactive Constrained Policy Optimization with Preemptive Penalty

Ning Yang, Pengyu Wang, Guoqing Liu +3

Safe Reinforcement Learning (RL) often faces significant issues such as constraint violations and instability, necessitating the use of constrained policy optimization, which seeks…

cs.SI2014

When and Where: Predicting Human Movements Based on Social Spatial-Temporal Events

Ning Yang, Xiangnan Kong, Fengjiao Wang +1

Predicting both the time and the location of human movements is valuable but challenging for a variety of applications. To address this problem, we propose an approach considering…

cs.AI2026

Offline Policy Optimization with Posterior Sampling

Hongqiang Lin, Dongxu Zhang, Yiding Sun +3

A fundamental challenge in model-based offline reinforcement learning (RL) lies in the trade-off between generalization and robustness against exploitation errors in out-of-distrib…

eess.SY2025

Minimizing AoI in Mobile Edge Computing: Nested Index Policy with Preemptive and Non-preemptive Structure

Ning Yang, Yibo Liu, Shuo Chen +2

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) leverages computational heterogeneity between mobile devices and edge nodes to enable real-time applications requiring high information freshness. The A…

eess.SY2025

Generalizable Pareto-Optimal Offloading with Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Edge Computing

Ning Yang, Junrui Wen, Meng Zhang +1

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is essential for next-generation mobile network applications that prioritize various performance metrics, including delays and energy efficiency. Howeve…

cs.NI2026

LLM-Driven Large-Scale Spectrum Access

Ning Yang, Jinliang Gao, Haijun Zhang

Efficient spectrum management in massive-scale wireless networks is increasingly challenged by explosive action spaces and the computational intractability of traditional optimizat…

cs.NI2024

Beyond the Edge: An Advanced Exploration of Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Edge Computing, its Applications, and Future Research Trajectories

Ning Yang, Shuo Chen, Haijun Zhang +1

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) broadens the scope of computation and storage beyond the central network, incorporating edge nodes close to end devices. This expansion facilitates the…

cs.LG2026

Vision-LLMs for Spatiotemporal Traffic Forecasting

Ning Yang, Hengyu Zhong, Haijun Zhang +1

Accurate spatiotemporal traffic forecasting is a critical prerequisite for proactive resource management in dense urban mobile networks. While large language models have shown prom…

cs.CL2025

DASH: Input-Aware Dynamic Layer Skipping for Efficient LLM Inference with Markov Decision Policies

Ning Yang, Fangxin Liu, Junjie Wang +4

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of NLP tasks. However, their substantial inference cost poses a major barrier to real-world de…

cs.CL2025

Evolving LLMs' Self-Refinement Capability via Synergistic Training-Inference Optimization

Yongcheng Zeng, Xinyu Cui, Xuanfa Jin +11

Self-Refinement refers to a model's ability to revise its own responses to produce improved outputs. This capability can also serve as a fundamental mechanism for Self-Improvement,…

cs.LG2026

Band Together: Untargeted Adversarial Training with Multimodal Coordination against Evasion-based Promotion Attacks

Guanmeng Xian, Ning Yang, Philip S. Yu

Multimodal recommender systems exploit visual and textual signals to alleviate data sparsity, but this also makes them more vulnerable to evasion-based promotion attacks. Existing…

cs.IR2021

Dual Adversarial Variational Embedding for Robust Recommendation

Qiaomin Yi, Ning Yang, Philip S. Yu

Robust recommendation aims at capturing true preference of users from noisy data, for which there are two lines of methods have been proposed. One is based on noise injection, and…

math.GR2020

Automata groups generated by Cayley machines of groups of nilpotency class two

Ning Yang

We show presentations of automata groups generated by Cayley machines of finite groups of nilpotency class two and these automata groups are all cross-wired lamplighters.

cs.IR2022

Learning from Atypical Behavior: Temporary Interest Aware Recommendation Based on Reinforcement Learning

Ziwen Du, Ning Yang, Zhonghua Yu +1

Traditional robust recommendation methods view atypical user-item interactions as noise and aim to reduce their impact with some kind of noise filtering technique, which often suff…

cs.LG2026

On the Superlinear Relationship between SGD Noise Covariance and Loss Landscape Curvature

Yikuan Zhang, Ning Yang, Yuhai Tu

Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) introduces anisotropic noise that is correlated with the local curvature of the loss landscape, thereby biasing optimization toward flat minima. P…

cs.CL2024

Token-level Direct Preference Optimization

Yongcheng Zeng, Guoqing Liu, Weiyu Ma +3

Fine-tuning pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential to align them with human values and intentions. This process often utilizes methods like pairwise comparisons and…

cs.LG2026

Manifold-Constrained Adversarial Training for Long-Tailed Robustness via Geometric Alignment

Guanmeng Xian, Ning Yang, Philip S. Yu

Adversarial training is effective on balanced datasets, but its robustness degrades under longtailed class distributions, where tail classes suffer high robust error and unstable d…

cs.IR2020

Hybrid Deep Embedding for Recommendations with Dynamic Aspect-Level Explanations

Huanrui Luo, Ning Yang, Philip S. Yu

Explainable recommendation is far from being well solved partly due to three challenges. The first is the personalization of preference learning, which requires that different item…

cs.MA2022

Joint Caching and Transmission in the Mobile Edge Network: A Multi-Agent Learning Approach

Qirui Mi, Ning Yang, Haifeng Zhang +2

Joint caching and transmission optimization problem is challenging due to the deep coupling between decisions. This paper proposes an iterative distributed multi-agent learning app…

cs.HC2020

Long-Range Gesture Recognition Using Millimeter Wave Radar

Yu Liu, Yuheng Wang, Haipeng Liu +3

Millimeter wave (mmWave) based gesture recognition technology provides a good human computer interaction (HCI) experience. Prior works focus on the close-range gesture recognition,…

cs.IR2023

Contrastive Collaborative Filtering for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

Zhihui Zhou, Lilin Zhang, Ning Yang

The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. As a promising solution, content-based generative models usually project a cold-start item's content ont…

cs.CV2026

HiMemVLN: Enhancing Reliability of Open-Source Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation with Hierarchical Memory System

Kailin Lyu, Kangyi Wu, Pengna Li +9

LLM-based agents have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance in vision-language navigation (VLN) tasks. However, most zero-shot methods primarily rely on closed-source LLMs…

cs.CL2026

LinearARD: Linear-Memory Attention Distillation for RoPE Restoration

Ning Yang, Hengyu Zhong, Wentao Wang +3

The extension of context windows in Large Language Models is typically facilitated by scaling positional encodings followed by lightweight Continual Pre-Training (CPT). While effec…

cs.CV2026

PointCoT: A Multi-modal Benchmark for Explicit 3D Geometric Reasoning

Dongxu Zhang, Yiding Sun, Pengcheng Li +12

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate proficiency in 2D scenes, extending their perceptual intelligence to 3D point cloud understanding remains a significant c…

cond-mat.str-el2007

Correlations and entanglements in a few-electron quantum dot without Zeeman splitting

Ning Yang, Jia-Lin Zhu, Zhengsheng Dai +1

We explore the correlations and entanglements of exact-diagonalized few-electron wave functions in a quantum dot in magnetic fields without the Zeeman splitting. With the increase…

cond-mat.str-el2007

Spin-dependent Rotating Wigner Molecules in Quantum dots

Zhensheng Dai, Jia-Lin Zhu, Ning Yang +1

The spin-dependent trial wave functions with rotational symmetry are introduced to describe rotating Wigner molecular states with spin degree of freedom in four- and five-electron…