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20202025
most citedInterpretable Sequence Learning for COVID-19 Forecasting

59 citations · 134 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CV2025

VISTA: A Test-Time Self-Improving Video Generation Agent

Do Xuan Long, Xingchen Wan, Hootan Nakhost +3

Despite rapid advances in text-to-video synthesis, generated video quality remains critically dependent on precise user prompts. Existing test-time optimization methods, successful…

cs.AI2025

Maestro: Self-Improving Text-to-Image Generation via Agent Orchestration

Xingchen Wan, Han Zhou, Ruoxi Sun +4

Text-to-image (T2I) models, while offering immense creative potential, are highly reliant on human intervention, posing significant usability challenges that often necessitate manu…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

PlanGEN: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Planning and Reasoning Trajectories for Complex Problem Solving

Mihir Parmar, Xin Liu, Palash Goyal +11

Recent agent frameworks and inference-time algorithms often struggle with complex planning problems due to limitations in verifying generated plans or reasoning and varying complex…

cs.LG2025

From Few to Many: Self-Improving Many-Shot Reasoners Through Iterative Optimization and Generation

Xingchen Wan, Han Zhou, Ruoxi Sun +3

Recent advances in long-context large language models (LLMs) have led to the emerging paradigm of many-shot in-context learning (ICL), where it is observed that scaling many more d…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Teach Better or Show Smarter? On Instructions and Exemplars in Automatic Prompt Optimization

Xingchen Wan, Ruoxi Sun, Hootan Nakhost +1

Large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, but their performance is heavily reliant on effective prompt engineering. Automatic prompt optimization (APO) metho…

cs.CL2023

TextGenSHAP: Scalable Post-hoc Explanations in Text Generation with Long Documents

James Enouen, Hootan Nakhost, Sayna Ebrahimi +3

Large language models (LLMs) have attracted huge interest in practical applications given their increasingly accurate responses and coherent reasoning abilities. Given their nature…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

SQLPrompt: In-Context Text-to-SQL with Minimal Labeled Data

Ruoxi Sun, Sercan Ö. Arik, Rajarishi Sinha +4

Text-to-SQL aims to automate the process of generating SQL queries on a database from natural language text. In this work, we propose "SQLPrompt", tailored to improve the few-shot…

cs.CL2023★ 29 cited

SQL-PaLM: Improved Large Language Model Adaptation for Text-to-SQL (extended)

Ruoxi Sun, Sercan Ö. Arik, Alex Muzio +8

Text-to-SQL, the process of translating natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL), represents a transformative application of large language models (LLMs), potentially…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Universal Self-Adaptive Prompting

Xingchen Wan, Ruoxi Sun, Hootan Nakhost +4

A hallmark of modern large language models (LLMs) is their impressive general zero-shot and few-shot abilities, often elicited through in-context learning (ICL) via prompting. Howe…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes

Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Chun-Liang Li, Chih-Kuan Yeh +6

Deploying large language models (LLMs) is challenging because they are memory inefficient and compute-intensive for practical applications. In reaction, researchers train smaller t…

cs.LG2022★ 23 cited

Controlling Commercial Cooling Systems Using Reinforcement Learning

Jerry Luo, Cosmin Paduraru, Octavian Voicu +33

This paper is a technical overview of DeepMind and Google's recent work on reinforcement learning for controlling commercial cooling systems. Building on expertise that began with…

cs.LG2020★ 59 cited

Interpretable Sequence Learning for COVID-19 Forecasting

Sercan O. Arik, Chun-Liang Li, Jinsung Yoon +12

We propose a novel approach that integrates machine learning into compartmental disease modeling to predict the progression of COVID-19. Our model is explainable by design as it ex…