activity
20242026
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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning to Perturb Hidden Representations for Generalizable Deep Learning

Hua Li

Deep neural networks process data through a cascade of representations: input features, hidden activations, logits, and loss. While perturbations at the input, logit, and label lev…

cs.LG2026

Gradient Perturbation: Learning to Perturb Gradients for Adaptive Training

Hua Li

Deep neural network training involves both forward propagation (from features through logits to loss) and backward propagation (from loss through gradients to parameter updates). W…

cs.IR2025

Fine-Tuning Diffusion-Based Recommender Systems via Reinforcement Learning with Reward Function Optimization

Yu Hou, Hua Li, Ha Young Kim +1

Diffusion models recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for recommender systems, offering state-of-the-art performance by modeling the generative process of user-item interactions…

cs.IR2024

Optimizing Novelty of Top-k Recommendations using Large Language Models and Reinforcement Learning

Amit Sharma, Hua Li, Xue Li +1

Given an input query, a recommendation model is trained using user feedback data (e.g., click data) to output a ranked list of items. In real-world systems, besides accuracy, an im…

cs.AI2024

Task Facet Learning: A Structured Approach to Prompt Optimization

Gurusha Juneja, Gautam Jajoo, Nagarajan Natarajan +3

Given a task in the form of a basic description and its training examples, prompt optimization is the problem of synthesizing the given information into a text prompt for a large l…