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most citedDiffusion Model for Data-Driven Black-Box Optimization

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cs.CL2025

On the Role of Preference Variance in Preference Optimization

Jiacheng Guo, Zihao Li, Jiahao Qiu +2

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an important approach for learning from human preferences in aligning large language models (LLMs). However, collecting human pr…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

MATH-Perturb: Benchmarking LLMs' Math Reasoning Abilities against Hard Perturbations

Kaixuan Huang, Jiacheng Guo, Zihao Li +15

Large language models have demonstrated impressive performance on challenging mathematical reasoning tasks, which has triggered the discussion of whether the performance is achieve…

cs.LG2024

One-Layer Transformer Provably Learns One-Nearest Neighbor In Context

Zihao Li, Yuan Cao, Cheng Gao +5

Transformers have achieved great success in recent years. Interestingly, transformers have shown particularly strong in-context learning capability -- even without fine-tuning, the…

stat.ML2024

Global Convergence in Training Large-Scale Transformers

Cheng Gao, Yuan Cao, Zihao Li +5

Despite the widespread success of Transformers across various domains, their optimization guarantees in large-scale model settings are not well-understood. This paper rigorously an…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Diffusion Model for Data-Driven Black-Box Optimization

Zihao Li, Hui Yuan, Kaixuan Huang +4

Generative AI has redefined artificial intelligence, enabling the creation of innovative content and customized solutions that drive business practices into a new era of efficiency…

cs.LG2024

Regularized DeepIV with Model Selection

Zihao Li, Hui Lan, Vasilis Syrgkanis +2

In this paper, we study nonparametric estimation of instrumental variable (IV) regressions. While recent advancements in machine learning have introduced flexible methods for IV es…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Theoretical Insights for Diffusion Guidance: A Case Study for Gaussian Mixture Models

Yuchen Wu, Minshuo Chen, Zihao Li +2

Diffusion models benefit from instillation of task-specific information into the score function to steer the sample generation towards desired properties. Such information is coine…

cs.LG2024

Double Duality: Variational Primal-Dual Policy Optimization for Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Zihao Li, Boyi Liu, Zhuoran Yang +2

We study the Constrained Convex Markov Decision Process (MDP), where the goal is to minimize a convex functional of the visitation measure, subject to a convex constraint. Designin…

cs.LG2023

Sample Complexity of Preference-Based Nonparametric Off-Policy Evaluation with Deep Networks

Zihao Li, Xiang Ji, Minshuo Chen +1

A recently popular approach to solving reinforcement learning is with data from human preferences. In fact, human preference data are now used with classic reinforcement learning a…