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20222026
most citedAsynchronous Distributed Bilevel Optimization

6 citations · 6 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2026

DPOison-VL: Clean Preference Poisoning in Vision-Language Direct Preference Optimization

Chengtao Jian, Kai Yang

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has become a widely adopted approach for aligning vision-language models (VLMs), yet the security of multimodal preference data remains largely…

cs.LG2025

UrbanMind: Towards Urban General Intelligence via Tool-Enhanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Multilevel Optimization

Kai Yang, Zelin Zhu, Chengtao Jian +4

Urban general intelligence (UGI) refers to the capacity of AI systems to autonomously perceive, reason, and act within dynamic and complex urban environments. In this paper, we int…

cs.AI2025

Stable Preference Optimization: A Bilevel Approach to Catastrophic Preference Shift

Chengtao Jian, Kai Yang, Tianhao Gao +5

Direct Preference Learning has emerged as a dominant offline paradigm for preference optimization. Most of these methods are based on the Bradley-Terry (BT) model for pairwise pref…

cs.LG2024

Unlocking TriLevel Learning with Level-Wise Zeroth Order Constraints: Distributed Algorithms and Provable Non-Asymptotic Convergence

Yang Jiao, Kai Yang, Chengtao Jian

Trilevel learning (TLL) found diverse applications in numerous machine learning applications, ranging from robust hyperparameter optimization to domain adaptation. However, existin…

cs.LG2024

Tri-Level Navigator: LLM-Empowered Tri-Level Learning for Time Series OOD Generalization

Chengtao Jian, Kai Yang, Yang Jiao

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization in machine learning is a burgeoning area of study. Its primary goal is to enhance the adaptability and resilience of machine learning model…

cs.LG2024

Provably Convergent Federated Trilevel Learning

Yang Jiao, Kai Yang, Tiancheng Wu +2

Trilevel learning, also called trilevel optimization (TLO), has been recognized as a powerful modelling tool for hierarchical decision process and widely applied in many machine le…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Asynchronous Distributed Bilevel Optimization

Yang Jiao, Kai Yang, Tiancheng Wu +2

Bilevel optimization plays an essential role in many machine learning tasks, ranging from hyperparameter optimization to meta-learning. Existing studies on bilevel optimization, ho…