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most citedPredicting Strategic Energy Storage Behaviors

12 citations · 22 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 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.LG2026

Low-Rank Adaptation for Critic Learning in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

Yuan Zhuang, Yuexin Bian, Sihong He +7

Scaling critic capacity is a promising direction for improving off-policy reinforcement learning (RL). However, recent work shows that larger critics are prone to overfitting and i…

cs.LG2026

RN-D: Discretized Categorical Actors for On-Policy Reinforcement Learning

Yuexin Bian, Jie Feng, Tao Wang +3

On-policy Reinforcement Learning (RL) remains a dominant paradigm for continuous control, yet standard implementations rely on Gaussian actors and relatively shallow MLP policies,…

cs.CL2025

LD-MoLE: Learnable Dynamic Routing for Mixture of LoRA Experts

Yuan Zhuang, Yi Shen, Yuexin Bian +4

Recent studies have shown that combining parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) with mixture-of-experts (MoE) is an effective strategy for adapting large language models (LLMs) to…

cs.LG2025

Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective

Zhoujun Cheng, Shibo Hao, Tianyang Liu +21

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach to improve large language model (LLM) reasoning, yet most open efforts focus narrowly on math and code, limiting our…

eess.SY2025

Operator learning for energy-efficient building ventilation control with computational fluid dynamics simulation of a real-world classroom

Yuexin Bian, Oliver Schmidt, Yuanyuan Shi

Energy-efficient ventilation control plays a vital role in reducing building energy consumption while ensuring occupant health and comfort. While Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)…

eess.SY2024

DiffOP: Reinforcement Learning of Optimization-Based Control Policies via Implicit Policy Gradients

Yuexin Bian, Jie Feng, Yuanyuan Shi

Real-world control systems require policies that are not only high-performing but also interpretable and robust. A promising direction toward this goal is model-based control, whic…

eess.SY2024

PDE Control Gym: A Benchmark for Data-Driven Boundary Control of Partial Differential Equations

Luke Bhan, Yuexin Bian, Miroslav Krstic +1

Over the last decade, data-driven methods have surged in popularity, emerging as valuable tools for control theory. As such, neural network approximations of control feedback laws,…

eess.SY2024

Improving Sequential Market Coordination via Value-oriented Renewable Energy Forecasting

Yufan Zhang, Honglin Wen, Yuexin Bian +1

Large penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs) brings huge uncertainty into the electricity markets. The current deterministic clearing approach in the day-ahead (DA) market,…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Ventilation and Temperature Control for Energy-efficient and Healthy Buildings: A Differentiable PDE Approach

Yuexin Bian, Xiaohan Fu, Rajesh K. Gupta +1

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for building learning and control, focusing on ventilation and thermal management to enhance energy efficiency. We validate the perfor…

eess.SY2023★ 1 cited

Deriving Loss Function for Value-oriented Renewable Energy Forecasting

Yufan Zhang, Honglin Wen, Yuexin Bian +1

Renewable energy forecasting is the workhorse for efficient energy dispatch. However, forecasts with small mean squared errors (MSE) may not necessarily lead to low operation costs…

eess.SY2023★ 6 cited

Toward Value-oriented Renewable Energy Forecasting: An Iterative Learning Approach

Yufan Zhang, Mengshuo Jia, Honglin Wen +2

Energy forecasting is an essential task in power system operations. Operators usually issue forecasts and leverage them to schedule energy dispatch ahead of time. However, forecast…

eess.SY2023★ 12 cited

Predicting Strategic Energy Storage Behaviors

Yuexin Bian, Ningkun Zheng, Yang Zheng +2

Energy storage are strategic participants in electricity markets to arbitrage price differences. Future power system operators must understand and predict strategic storage arbitra…

eess.SY2022★ 2 cited

Carbon-Aware EV Charging

Kai-Wen Cheng, Yuexin Bian, Yuanyuan Shi +1

This paper examines the problem of optimizing the charging pattern of electric vehicles (EV) by taking real-time electricity grid carbon intensity into consideration. The objective…