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most citedLLM-based Agent Simulation for Maternal Health Interventions: Uncertainty Estimation and Decision-focused Evaluation

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

DiffNash: Finding Nash Equilibrium in High-Dimensional Continuous Action Spaces with Diffusion Policies

Haichuan Wang, Anagha Satish, Jiale Zheng +4

Computing equilibria in high-dimensional continuous games requires learning and representing rich, multi-modal strategy distributions, something conventional neural policies strugg…

cs.LG2026

Drift, Then Spread: Learning One-Step Generative Policies for Online Reinforcement Learning

Chunyu Luo, Hongyu Zhao, Guangyi Ni +2

Generative policies offer expressive action distributions for online reinforcement learning (RL), but many diffusion- and flow-based policies require costly iterative sampling. We…

cs.CL2026

A mechanistic study of language model introspection

Jiahong Zou, Xiangkun Sun, Lingkai Kong +1

Large language models (LLMs) can sometimes report perturbations to their internal activations---even when the input provides no evidence that an intervention occurred. How do model…

cs.LG2026

Generative Frontier Planning for Adaptive Peer-Referral Recruitment under Covariate-Dependent Arrivals

Lingkai Kong, Hezi Jiang, Andrew Ma +3

Peer-referral recruitment systems such as respondent-driven sampling are critical for studying and intervening on hidden populations affected by infectious diseases. To accelerate…

cs.AI2026

How LLMs Are Persuaded: A Few Attention Heads, Rerouted

Xiangkun Sun, Lingkai Kong, Aoqi Zhang +2

Large language models can answer a factual question correctly, yet switch to an incorrect answer when exposed to persuasive context. Why this happens inside the model remains uncle…

cs.LG2026

LLM Advertisement based on Neuron Auctions

Peiran Yun, Wenxin Xu, Jiayuan Liu +4

As Large Language Models (LLMs) transition into conversational agents, generative advertising emerges as a crucial monetization strategy. However, embedding advertisements within u…

cs.LG2026

Reward Shaping for (Inference-Time) Alignment: A Stackelberg Game Perspective

Haichuan Wang, Tao Lin, Lingkai Kong +3

Existing alignment methods directly use the reward model learned from user preference data to optimize an LLM policy, subject to KL regularization with respect to the base policy.…

cs.CY2026

Generative AI for Social Impact

Lingkai Kong, Cheol Woo Kim, Davin Choo +1

AI for Social Impact (AI4SI) has achieved compelling results in public health, conservation, and security, yet scaling these successes remains difficult due to a persistent deploym…

cs.LG2026

Latent Spherical Flow Policy for Reinforcement Learning with Combinatorial Actions

Lingkai Kong, Anagha Satish, Hezi Jiang +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) with combinatorial action spaces remains challenging because feasible action sets are exponentially large and governed by complex feasibility constraint…

cs.SI2026

Policy-Embedded Graph Expansion: Networked HIV Testing with Diffusion-Driven Network Samples

Akseli Kangaslahti, Davin Choo, Lingkai Kong +3

HIV is a retrovirus that attacks the human immune system and can lead to death without proper treatment. In collaboration with the WHO and the University of Witwatersrand, we study…

cs.LG2025

Generative AI Against Poaching: Latent Composite Flow Matching for Wildlife Conservation

Lingkai Kong, Haichuan Wang, Charles A. Emogor +3

Poaching poses significant threats to wildlife and biodiversity. A valuable step in reducing poaching is to forecast poacher behavior, which can inform patrol planning and other co…

cs.LG2025

Composite Flow Matching for Reinforcement Learning with Shifted-Dynamics Data

Lingkai Kong, Haichuan Wang, Tonghan Wang +2

Incorporating pre-collected offline data can substantially improve the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL), but its benefits can break down when the transition dynamic…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

LLM-based Agent Simulation for Maternal Health Interventions: Uncertainty Estimation and Decision-focused Evaluation

Sarah Martinson, Lingkai Kong, Cheol Woo Kim +2

Agent-based simulation is crucial for modeling complex human behavior, yet traditional approaches require extensive domain knowledge and large datasets. In data-scarce healthcare s…

cs.CY2025

Robust Optimization with Diffusion Models for Green Security

Lingkai Kong, Haichuan Wang, Yuqi Pan +6

In green security, defenders must forecast adversarial behavior, such as poaching, illegal logging, and illegal fishing, to plan effective patrols. These behavior are often highly…

cs.LG2025

Navigating the Social Welfare Frontier: Portfolios for Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning

Cheol Woo Kim, Jai Moondra, Shresth Verma +4

In many real-world applications of reinforcement learning (RL), deployed policies have varied impacts on different stakeholders, creating challenges in reaching consensus on how to…

cs.LG2024

What is the Right Notion of Distance between Predict-then-Optimize Tasks?

Paula Rodriguez-Diaz, Lingkai Kong, Kai Wang +2

Comparing datasets is a fundamental task in machine learning, essential for various learning paradigms-from evaluating train and test datasets for model generalization to using dat…

cs.LG2024

Balancing Act: Prioritization Strategies for LLM-Designed Restless Bandit Rewards

Shresth Verma, Niclas Boehmer, Lingkai Kong +1

LLMs are increasingly used to design reward functions based on human preferences in Reinforcement Learning (RL). We focus on LLM-designed rewards for Restless Multi-Armed Bandits,…