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cs.LG2026

Not All Timesteps Matter Equally: Selective Alignment Knowledge Distillation for Spiking Neural Networks

Kai Sun, Peibo Duan, Yongsheng Huang +4

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), which are brain-inspired and spike-driven, achieve high energy efficiency. However, a performance gap between SNNs and artificial neural networks (A…

cs.AI2026

Does Theory of Mind Improvement Really Benefit Human-AI Interactions? Empirical Findings from Interactive Evaluations

Nanxu Gong, Zixin Chen, Haotian Li +5

Improving the Theory of Mind (ToM) capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for effective social interactions between these AI models and humans. However, the existing…

cs.AI2026

To Think or Not To Think, That is The Question for Large Reasoning Models in Theory of Mind Tasks

Nanxu Gong, Haotian Li, Sixun Dong +3

Theory of Mind (ToM) assesses whether models can infer hidden mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions, which is essential for natural social interaction. Although re…

cs.LG2025

Data-Efficient Symbolic Regression via Foundation Model Distillation

Wangyang Ying, Jinghan Zhang, Haoyue Bai +5

Discovering interpretable mathematical equations from observed data (a.k.a. equation discovery or symbolic regression) is a cornerstone of scientific discovery, enabling transparen…

cs.LG2025

Distribution Shift Aware Neural Tabular Learning

Wangyang Ying, Nanxu Gong, Dongjie Wang +5

Tabular learning transforms raw features into optimized spaces for downstream tasks, but its effectiveness deteriorates under distribution shifts between training and testing data.…

cs.AI2025

Supply Chain Optimization via Generative Simulation and Iterative Decision Policies

Haoyue Bai, Haoyu Wang, Nanxu Gong +4

High responsiveness and economic efficiency are critical objectives in supply chain transportation, both of which are influenced by strategic decisions on shipping mode. An integra…

cs.LG2025

LLM-ML Teaming: Integrated Symbolic Decoding and Gradient Search for Valid and Stable Generative Feature Transformation

Xinyuan Wang, Haoyue Bai, Nanxu Gong +4

Feature transformation enhances data representation by deriving new features from the original data. Generative AI offers potential for this task, but faces challenges in stable ge…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Post-Training Refinement of Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models

Xinyuan Wang, Dongjie Wang, Wangyang Ying +5

Reasoning is a key component of language understanding in Large Language Models. While Chain-of-Thought prompting enhances performance via explicit intermediate steps, it suffers f…

cs.RO2025

Brownian Bridge Augmented Surrogate Simulation and Injection Planning for Geological CO Storage

Haoyue Bai, Guodong Chen, Wangyang Ying +7

Geological CO2 storage (GCS) involves injecting captured CO2 into deep subsurface formations to support climate goals. The effective management of GCS relies on adaptive injection…

cs.LG2025

Bridging the Domain Gap in Equation Distillation with Reinforcement Feedback

Wangyang Ying, Haoyue Bai, Nanxu Gong +4

The data-to-equation (Data2Eqn) task aims to discover interpretable mathematical equations that map observed values to labels, offering physical insights and broad applicability ac…

cs.LG2025

Sculpting Features from Noise: Reward-Guided Hierarchical Diffusion for Task-Optimal Feature Transformation

Nanxu Gong, Zijun Li, Sixun Dong +4

Feature Transformation (FT) crafts new features from original ones via mathematical operations to enhance dataset expressiveness for downstream models. However, existing FT methods…

cs.LG2025

Agentic Feature Augmentation: Unifying Selection and Generation with Teaming, Planning, and Memories

Nanxu Gong, Sixun Dong, Haoyue Bai +3

As a widely-used and practical tool, feature engineering transforms raw data into discriminative features to advance AI model performance. However, existing methods usually apply f…

cs.LG2025

Unsupervised Feature Transformation via In-context Generation, Generator-critic LLM Agents, and Duet-play Teaming

Nanxu Gong, Xinyuan Wang, Wangyang Ying +4

Feature transformation involves generating a new set of features from the original dataset to enhance the data's utility. In certain domains like material performance screening, di…

cs.LG2025

A Survey on Data-Centric AI: Tabular Learning from Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI Perspective

Wangyang Ying, Cong Wei, Nanxu Gong +7

Tabular data is one of the most widely used data formats across various domains such as bioinformatics, healthcare, and marketing. As artificial intelligence moves towards a data-c…

cs.LG2025

Towards Data-Centric AI: A Comprehensive Survey of Traditional, Reinforcement, and Generative Approaches for Tabular Data Transformation

Dongjie Wang, Yanyong Huang, Wangyang Ying +11

Tabular data is one of the most widely used formats across industries, driving critical applications in areas such as finance, healthcare, and marketing. In the era of data-centric…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Evolutionary Large Language Model for Automated Feature Transformation

Nanxu Gong, Chandan K. Reddy, Wangyang Ying +2

Feature transformation aims to reconstruct the feature space of raw features to enhance the performance of downstream models. However, the exponential growth in the combinations of…

cs.CV2024

Learning Long-form Video Prior via Generative Pre-Training

Jinheng Xie, Jiajun Feng, Zhaoxu Tian +8

Concepts involved in long-form videos such as people, objects, and their interactions, can be viewed as following an implicit prior. They are notably complex and continue to pose c…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Neuro-Symbolic Embedding for Short and Effective Feature Selection via Autoregressive Generation

Nanxu Gong, Wangyang Ying, Dongjie Wang +1

Feature selection aims to identify the optimal feature subset for enhancing downstream models. Effective feature selection can remove redundant features, save computational resourc…