most citedProteinZero: Self-Improving Protein Generation via Online Reinforcement Learning

2 citations · 4 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

20 papers

cs.AI2026

CleanRM: Reward Modeling from Noisy Feedback with a Few Clean Feedback for RLHF

Licheng Pan, Haocheng Yang, Yuzhou Chen +7

Feedback noise is pervasive in preference data, arising from subjective human judgments, annotation mistakes, and imperfect LLM judges. Standard reward modeling trained on such fee…

cs.CL2026

Not All Criteria Matter: Importance-Aware Criteria Weighting for Rubric-Based LLM Evaluation

Haocheng Yang, Licheng Pan, Yiming Dong +7

Rubric-based evaluation assesses the responses of large language models (LLMs) by aggregating the verification results of explicit criteria, yet not all criteria matter equally. Ho…

cs.CV2026

ZYT-World: A Real-Time Controllable World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous-Driving Simulation

Boni Hu, Xiong Wei, Haoming Huang +20

Generative world models offer controllable and repeatable closed-loop simulation for end-to-end and vision-language-action driving policies, but production deployment exposes three…

cs.SD2026

SpeechGym: An Audio-Native Gym for Training Voice Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Jiajun Fan, Jingyuan Li, Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar +6

Voice agents must call tools and hold multi-turn dialogue entirely through speech, yet the dominant paradigm trains them in text. Existing frameworks either cascade TTS and ASR aro…

cs.SD2026

Can We Read the Mind of an Audio LLM? A Verbalizable, Multilingual Middle-Layer Workspace

Jiajun Fan, Jingyuan Li, Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar +8

An audio language model is a black box in a specific way: we see what it says, never what it works out on the way there, and chain-of-thought monitoring helps only if the model wri…

cs.CL2026

Constraint-First Reasoning: A Training-Free Protocol for Exploiting Answer-Space Constraints in Mathematical Problem Solving

Hongbo Ma, Bangji Yang, Yunqian Selina Cheng +3

Large language models can derive a plausible mathematical object yet still violate explicit requirements--for example, by omitting a modular reduction, returning a non-integer, or…

cs.LG2026

Variable-Length Generative Protein Design via Generalized Poisson Flow

Chaoran Cheng, Zhanghan Ni, Yanru Qu +4

The ability to generate variable-length proteins is crucial in protein design, where the optimal length is often unknown and tightly coupled to designability. Current diffusion- an…

cs.RO2026

ElegantVLA: Learning When to Think for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models

Ye Li, Huanan Liu, Kangye Ji +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a powerful paradigm for generalist robotic control. However, their high computational cost and limited control frequency hinder real-time ro…

cs.AI2026

Retrieval is Cheap, Show Me the Code: Executable Multi-Hop Reasoning for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiashuo Sun, Jimeng Shi, Yixuan Xie +10

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard approach for knowledge-intensive question answering, but existing systems remain brittle on multi-hop questions, where so…

cs.IR2026

Trust or Abstain? A Self-Aware RAG Approach

Xi Zhu, Ziqi Wang, Kai Mei +5

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external evidence, but it also introduces knowledge conflicts when retrieved contextual…

cs.LG2026

Batched Contextual Reinforcement: A Task-Scaling Law for Efficient Reasoning

Bangji Yang, Hongbo Ma, Jiajun Fan +1

Large Language Models employing Chain-of-Thought reasoning achieve strong performance but suffer from excessive token consumption that inflates inference costs. Existing efficiency…

cs.CV2026

M3: High-fidelity Text-to-Image Generation via Multi-Modal, Multi-Agent and Multi-Round Visual Reasoning

Bangji Yang, Ruihan Guo, Jiajun Fan +2

Generative models have achieved impressive fidelity in text-to-image synthesis, yet struggle with complex compositional prompts involving multiple constraints. We introduce \textbf…

cs.CL2026

Rethinking the Reranker: Boundary-Aware Evidence Selection for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiashuo Sun, Pengcheng Jiang, Saizhuo Wang +13

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems remain brittle under realistic retrieval noise, even when the required evidence appears in the top-K results. A key reason is that retr…

cs.LG2025

Incentivizing Consistent, Effective and Scalable Reasoning Capability in Audio LLMs via Reasoning Process Rewards

Jiajun Fan, Roger Ren, Jingyuan Li +6

The role of reasoning in Audio Large Language Models remains widely underexplored, as introducing a reasoning process often degrades rather than improves performance during inferen…

cs.LG2025

Fine-tuning Flow Matching Generative Models with Intermediate Feedback

Jiajun Fan, Chaoran Cheng, Shuaike Shen +2

Flow-based generative models have shown remarkable success in text-to-image generation, yet fine-tuning them with intermediate feedback remains challenging, especially for continuo…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive Divergence Regularized Policy Optimization for Fine-tuning Generative Models

Jiajun Fan, Tong Wei, Chaoran Cheng +2

Balancing exploration and exploitation during reinforcement learning fine-tuning of generative models presents a critical challenge, as existing approaches rely on fixed divergence…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

ProteinZero: Self-Improving Protein Generation via Online Reinforcement Learning

Ziwen Wang, Jiajun Fan, Ruihan Guo +3

Protein generative models have shown remarkable promise in protein design, yet their success rates remain constrained by reliance on curated sequence-structure datasets and by misa…

cs.LG2025

Variational Supervised Contrastive Learning

Ziwen Wang, Jiajun Fan, Thao Nguyen +2

Contrastive learning has proven to be highly efficient and adaptable in shaping representation spaces across diverse modalities by pulling similar samples together and pushing diss…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

-Flow: A Unified Framework for Continuous-State Discrete Flow Matching Models

Chaoran Cheng, Jiahan Li, Jiajun Fan +1

Recent efforts have extended the flow-matching framework to discrete generative modeling. One strand of models directly works with the continuous probabilities instead of discrete…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Online Reward-Weighted Fine-Tuning of Flow Matching with Wasserstein Regularization

Jiajun Fan, Shuaike Shen, Chaoran Cheng +3

Recent advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved great success in fine-tuning diffusion-based generative models. However, fine-tuning continuous flow-based generati…