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20202026
most citedA Survey on Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization

21 citations · 39 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2026

Co-RL: Unsupervised Reasoning Emerges from Diverse Cohort in Multi-agent RL

Yunhao Yang, Yuexin Bian, Yunjie Tian +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach for improving reasoning in language and vision-language models, yet its strongest successes still depend heavily on g…

cs.MA2026

Characterizing Opinion Evolution of Networked LLMs

Caleb Probine, Yigit Ege Bayiz, Filippos Fotiadis +3

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly interact with one another in multi-agent systems, from simulations of human discourse to influence operations and fully LLM-driven social…

cs.LG2026

What Objects Enable, Not What They Are: Functional Latent Spaces for Affordance Reasoning

Rohan Siva, Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang +6

Existing robot planning systems rely on appearance-based reasoning, where visual observations are encoded into latent spaces organized around object appearances (e.g., recognizing…

cs.RO2026

VASO: Formally Verifiable Self-Evolving Skills for Physical AI Agents

Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Kevin Wang +3

Reusable robot skills are becoming the basic units through which embodied agents turn open-ended instructions into long-horizon physical behavior. We argue that, while foundation m…

cs.RO2025

RepV: Safety-Separable Latent Spaces for Scalable Neurosymbolic Plan Verification

Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Pranay Samineni +3

As AI systems migrate to safety-critical domains, verifying that their actions comply with well-defined rules remains a challenge. Formal methods provide provable guarantees but de…

cs.RO2025

VLN-Zero: Rapid Exploration and Cache-Enabled Neurosymbolic Vision-Language Planning for Zero-Shot Transfer in Robot Navigation

Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang, Rohan Siva +4

Rapid adaptation in unseen environments is essential for scalable real-world autonomy, yet existing approaches rely on exhaustive exploration or rigid navigation policies that fail…

cs.RO2025

LAD-VF: LLM-Automatic Differentiation Enables Fine-Tuning-Free Robot Planning from Formal Methods Feedback

Yunhao Yang, Junyuan Hong, Gabriel Jacob Perin +4

Large language models (LLMs) can translate natural language instructions into executable action plans for robotics, autonomous driving, and other domains. Yet, deploying LLM-driven…

cs.AI2025

Foundation Models for Logistics: Toward Certifiable, Conversational Planning Interfaces

Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Christian Ellis +4

Logistics operators, from battlefield coordinators re-routing airlifts ahead of a storm to warehouse managers juggling late trucks, need to make mission-critical decisions. Prevail…

cs.AI2025

Evaluating Human Trust in LLM-Based Planners: A Preliminary Study

Shenghui Chen, Yunhao Yang, Kayla Boggess +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for planning tasks, offering unique capabilities not found in classical planners such as generating explanations and iterative re…

cs.RO2024

Know Where You're Uncertain When Planning with Multimodal Foundation Models: A Formal Framework

Neel P. Bhatt, Yunhao Yang, Rohan Siva +3

Multimodal foundation models offer a promising framework for robotic perception and planning by processing sensory inputs to generate actionable plans. However, addressing uncertai…

cs.CV2024

Uncertainty-Guided Enhancement on Driving Perception System via Foundation Models

Yunhao Yang, Yuxin Hu, Mao Ye +5

Multimodal foundation models offer promising advancements for enhancing driving perception systems, but their high computational and financial costs pose challenges. We develop a m…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning Language Models Using Formal Methods Feedback

Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Tyler Ingebrand +4

Although pre-trained language models encode generic knowledge beneficial for planning and control, they may fail to generate appropriate control policies for domain-specific tasks.…

cs.CV2023

Specification-Driven Video Search via Foundation Models and Formal Verification

Yunhao Yang, Jean-Raphaël Gaglione, Sandeep Chinchali +1

The increasing abundance of video data enables users to search for events of interest, e.g., emergency incidents. Meanwhile, it raises new concerns, such as the need for preserving…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

On the Planning, Search, and Memorization Capabilities of Large Language Models

Yunhao Yang, Anshul Tomar

The rapid advancement of large language models, such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) series, has had significant implications across various disciplines. In this st…

cs.AI2023

Multimodal Pretrained Models for Verifiable Sequential Decision-Making: Planning, Grounding, and Perception

Yunhao Yang, Cyrus Neary, Ufuk Topcu

Recently developed pretrained models can encode rich world knowledge expressed in multiple modalities, such as text and images. However, the outputs of these models cannot be integ…

cs.FL2022★ 3 cited

Automaton-Based Representations of Task Knowledge from Generative Language Models

Yunhao Yang, Jean-Raphaël Gaglione, Cyrus Neary +1

Automaton-based representations of task knowledge play an important role in control and planning for sequential decision-making problems. However, obtaining the high-level task kno…

cs.LG2022

Additive Logistic Mechanism for Privacy-Preserving Self-Supervised Learning

Yunhao Yang, Parham Gohari, Ufuk Topcu

We study the privacy risks that are associated with training a neural network's weights with self-supervised learning algorithms. Through empirical evidence, we show that the fine-…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

On the Privacy Risks of Deploying Recurrent Neural Networks in Machine Learning Models

Yunhao Yang, Parham Gohari, Ufuk Topcu

We study the privacy implications of training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with sensitive training datasets. Considering membership inference attacks (MIAs), which aim to infer…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Self-Enhancing Multi-filter Sequence-to-Sequence Model

Yunhao Yang, Zhaokun Xue, Andrew Whinston

Representation learning is important for solving sequence-to-sequence problems in natural language processing. Representation learning transforms raw data into vector-form represen…

cs.CL2021

Training Heterogeneous Features in Sequence to Sequence Tasks: Latent Enhanced Multi-filter Seq2Seq Model

Yunhao Yang, Zhaokun Xue

In language processing, training data with extremely large variance may lead to difficulty in the language model's convergence. It is difficult for the network parameters to adapt…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

Identifying Mislabeled Images in Supervised Learning Utilizing Autoencoder

Yunhao Yang, Andrew Whinston

Supervised learning is based on the assumption that the ground truth in the training data is accurate. However, this may not be guaranteed in real-world settings. Inaccurate traini…

cs.LG2020★ 21 cited

A Survey on Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization

Yunhao Yang, Andrew Whinston

This paper gives a detailed review of reinforcement learning (RL) in combinatorial optimization, introduces the history of combinatorial optimization starting in the 1950s, and com…