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Publications (5)

eess.SY2026

An Adaptive Online Smoother with Closed-Form Solutions and Information-Theoretic Lag Selection for Conditional Gaussian Nonlinear Systems

Marios Andreou, Nan Chen, Yingda Li

Data assimilation (DA) combines partial observations with dynamical models to improve state estimation. Filter-based DA uses only past and present data and is the prerequisite for…

math.NA2021

Conditional Gaussian Nonlinear System: a Fast Preconditioner and a Cheap Surrogate Model For Complex Nonlinear Systems

Nan Chen, Yingda Li, Honghu Liu

Developing suitable approximate models for analyzing and simulating complex nonlinear systems is practically important. This paper aims at exploring the skill of a rich class of no…

physics.ao-ph2021

BAMCAFE: A Bayesian Machine Learning Advanced Forecast Ensemble Method for Complex Turbulent Systems with Partial Observations

Nan Chen, Yingda Li

Ensemble forecast based on physics-informed models is one of the most widely used forecast algorithms for complex turbulent systems. A major difficulty in such a method is the mode…

cs.CV2026

UAOR: Uncertainty-aware Observation Reinjection for Vision-Language-Action Models

Jiabing Yang, Yixiang Chen, Yuan Xu +14

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as backbones to map images and instructions to actions, demonstrating remarkable potential for…

cs.CV2026

Style over Substance: A Shortcut Audit of Emotion-Description Preference Evaluation

Jiabing Yang, Yixiang Chen, Yuan Xu +6

Preference over model-generated emotion descriptions is emerging as a standard evaluation metric for multimodal emotion understanding, exemplified by the MER2026 MER-Prefer track o…