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most citedplayer2vec: A Language Modeling Approach to Understand Player Behavior in Games

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cs.CL2026

Who Guards the Benchmarks? Automated Auditing of LLM Agent Benchmarks

Xinming Tu, Tianze Wang, Yingzhou +4

As benchmarks grow in complexity, many apparent agent failures are not failures of the agent at all---they are failures of the benchmark itself: broken specifications, implicit ass…

cs.LG2026

Be Wary of Your Time Series Preprocessing

Sofiane Ennadir, Tianze Wang, Oleg Smirnov +2

Normalization and scaling are fundamental preprocessing steps in time series modeling, yet their role in Transformer-based models remains underexplored from a theoretical perspecti…

cs.LG2025

Frequency Matters: When Time Series Foundation Models Fail Under Spectral Shift

Tianze Wang, Sofiane Ennadir, John Pertoft +7

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have shown strong results on public benchmarks, prompting comparisons to a "BERT moment" for time series. Their effectiveness in industrial se…

cs.CR2025

Secret-Protected Evolution for Differentially Private Synthetic Text Generation

Tianze Wang, Zhaoyu Chen, Jian Du +3

Text data has become extremely valuable on large language models (LLMs) and even lead to general artificial intelligence (AGI). A lot of high-quality text in the real world is priv…

cs.LG2025

Pool Me Wisely: On the Effect of Pooling in Transformer-Based Models

Sofiane Ennadir, Levente Zólyomi, Oleg Smirnov +4

Transformer models have become the dominant backbone for sequence modeling, leveraging self-attention to produce contextualized token representations. These are typically aggregate…

cs.CL2025

RoseRAG: Robust Retrieval-augmented Generation with Small-scale LLMs via Margin-aware Preference Optimization

Tianci Liu, Haoxiang Jiang, Tianze Wang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance but face high computational costs and latency, limiting their deployment in resource-constrained settings. In cont…

cs.CL2025

MPO: An Efficient Post-Processing Framework for Mixing Diverse Preference Alignment

Tianze Wang, Dongnan Gui, Yifan Hu +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has shown promise in aligning large language models (LLMs). Yet its reliance on a singular reward model often overlooks the divers…

cs.LG2025

Towards Unified Approaches in Self-Supervised Event Stream Modeling: Progress and Prospects

Levente Zólyomi, Tianze Wang, Sofiane Ennadir +2

The proliferation of digital interactions across diverse domains, such as healthcare, e-commerce, gaming, and finance, has resulted in the generation of vast volumes of event strea…

cs.LG2024

Expressivity of Representation Learning on Continuous-Time Dynamic Graphs: An Information-Flow Centric Review

Sofiane Ennadir, Gabriela Zarzar Gandler, Filip Cornell +6

Graphs are ubiquitous in real-world applications, ranging from social networks to biological systems, and have inspired the development of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for learning…

cs.LG2024

Understanding Players as if They Are Talking to the Game in a Customized Language: A Pilot Study

Tianze Wang, Maryam Honari-Jahromi, Styliani Katsarou +5

This pilot study explores the application of language models (LMs) to model game event sequences, treating them as a customized natural language. We investigate a popular mobile ga…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

player2vec: A Language Modeling Approach to Understand Player Behavior in Games

Tianze Wang, Maryam Honari-Jahromi, Styliani Katsarou +4

Methods for learning latent user representations from historical behavior logs have gained traction for recommendation tasks in e-commerce, content streaming, and other settings. H…