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most citedESCM: Entire Space Counterfactual Multi-Task Model for Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation

80 citations · 107 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.LG2026

Drafting Agents, Not Just Tokens: Speculative Recursive Self-Improvement for Agentic Systems

Xin Xu, Ke Cheng, Hao Wang +11

Improving an agent through successive revisions requires balancing exploration and evaluation under a limited budget. A narrow search can miss useful sequences of edits, while full…

cs.CL2026

Rubrics on Trial: Evolving Rubrics from a Single Query via Synthetic Pairwise Evidence

Haocheng Yang, Licheng Pan, Xiaoxi Li +8

Rubric evolution offers a promising approach to improving the quality of rubrics generated by large language models (LLMs). Central to this process is rubric comparison, which iden…

cs.CL2026

Unbiased Reward Modeling from Implicit Feedback for LLM Alignment

Hao Wang, Haocheng Yang, Licheng Pan +7

Despite the success of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), existing reward modeling methods largely rely on explicit feedback, which is costly to collect and difficu…

stat.ML2026

Deep Time-Series Forecasting in 10 Years: A Survey

Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Qingsong Wen +12

Autocorrelation is a common property of time-series, where each observation is dependent on its predecessors. In deep time-series forecasting, it raises two central challenges: (1)…

cs.LG2026

CausalRM: Causal-Theoretic Reward Modeling for RLHF from Observational User Feedbacks

Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Zhichao Chen +7

Despite the success of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) in aligning language models, current reward modeling heavily relies on experimental feedback data collected…

cs.LG2026

Analyzing and Improving Diffusion Models for Time-Series Data Imputation: A Proximal Recursion Perspective

Zhichao Chen, Hao Wang, Fangyikang Wang +5

Diffusion models (DMs) have shown promise for Time-Series Data Imputation (TSDI); however, their performance remains inconsistent in complex scenarios. We attribute this to two pri…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking the Flow-Based Gradual Domain Adaptation: A Semi-Dual Optimal Transport Perspective

Zhichao Chen, Zhan Zhuang, Yunfei Teng +6

Gradual domain adaptation (GDA) aims to mitigate domain shift by progressively adapting models from the source domain to the target domain via intermediate domains. However, real i…

cs.LG2026

Deep Time-series Forecasting Needs Kernelized Moment Balancing

Licheng Pan, Hao Wang, Haocheng Yang +12

Deep time-series forecasting can be formulated as a distribution balancing problem aimed at aligning the distribution of the forecasts and ground truths. According to Imbens' crite…

cs.LG2025

Quadratic Direct Forecast for Training Multi-Step Time-Series Forecast Models

Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Yuan Lu +7

The design of learning objectives is central to training time-series forecasting models. Existing learning objectives such as mean squared error mostly treat each future step as an…

cs.LG2025

DistDF: Time-Series Forecasting Needs Joint-Distribution Wasserstein Alignment

Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Yuan Lu +7

Training time-series forecasting models requires aligning the conditional distribution of model forecasts with that of the label sequence. The standard direct forecast (DF) approac…

cs.CL2025

From Text to Talk: Audio-Language Model Needs Non-Autoregressive Joint Training

Tianqiao Liu, Xueyi Li, Hao Wang +4

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant interest in extending their capabilities to multimodal scenarios, particularly for speech-to-speech conve…

cs.LG2025

Mixture of Low Rank Adaptation with Partial Parameter Sharing for Time Series Forecasting

Licheng Pan, Zhichao Chen, Haoxuan Li +5

Multi-task forecasting has become the standard approach for time-series forecasting (TSF). However, we show that it suffers from an Expressiveness Bottleneck, where predictions at…

cs.LG2025

Time-o1: Time-Series Forecasting Needs Transformed Label Alignment

Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Zhichao Chen +5

Training time-series forecasting models poses unique challenges in loss function design. Most existing approaches adopt temporal mean squared error, but this study reveals two crit…

cs.AI2025

DeepFilter: A Transformer-style Framework for Accurate and Efficient Process Monitoring

Hao Wang, Zhichao Chen, Licheng Pan +4

The process monitoring task is characterized by stringent demands for accuracy and efficiency. Current transformer-based methods, characterized by self-attention for temporal fusio…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

FreDF: Learning to Forecast in the Frequency Domain

Hao Wang, Licheng Pan, Zhichao Chen +6

Time series modeling presents unique challenges due to autocorrelation in both historical data and future sequences. While current research predominantly addresses autocorrelation…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Optimal Transport for Treatment Effect Estimation

Hao Wang, Zhichao Chen, Jiajun Fan +7

Estimating conditional average treatment effect from observational data is highly challenging due to the existence of treatment selection bias. Prevalent methods mitigate this issu…

cs.LG2023★ 15 cited

Monotonic Neural Ordinary Differential Equation: Time-series Forecasting for Cumulative Data

Zhichao Chen, Leilei Ding, Zhixuan Chu +3

Time-Series Forecasting based on Cumulative Data (TSFCD) is a crucial problem in decision-making across various industrial scenarios. However, existing time-series forecasting meth…

cs.AI2023

TMoE-P: Towards the Pareto Optimum for Multivariate Soft Sensors

Licheng Pan, Hao Wang, Zhichao Chen +2

Multi-variate soft sensor seeks accurate estimation of multiple quality variables using measurable process variables, which have emerged as a key factor in improving the quality of…

cs.AI2022★ 80 cited

ESCM: Entire Space Counterfactual Multi-Task Model for Post-Click Conversion Rate Estimation

Hao Wang, Tai-Wei Chang, Tianqiao Liu +5

Accurate estimation of post-click conversion rate is critical for building recommender systems, which has long been confronted with sample selection bias and data sparsity issues.…