collaborators

12 papers

cs.LG2026

Drifting Preference Optimization for One-Step Generative Models

Zhou Jiang, Yandong Wen, Zhen Liu

One-step text-to-image generators are attractive for deployment because they generate an image with a single forward pass, but preference finetuning them remains difficult: standar…

cs.AI2026

CoMIC: Collaborative Memory and Insights Circulation for Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Cloud-Edge Systems

Yannan Wang, Longli Yang, Zhen Liu +2

Deploying lightweight Large Language Model (LLM) agents on edge servers can reduce latency and move agentic services closer to users, but resource-constrained edge models often str…

cs.LG2026

Flipping Against All Odds: Reducing LLM Coin Flip Bias via Verbalized Rejection Sampling

Tim Z. Xiao, Johannes Zenn, Zhen Liu +3

Large language models (LLMs) can often accurately describe probability distributions using natural language, yet they still struggle to generate faithful samples from them. This mi…

cs.RO2026

EVA: Aligning Video World Models with Executable Robot Actions via Inverse Dynamics Rewards

Ruixiang Wang, Qingming Liu, Yueci Deng +3

Video generative models are increasingly used as world models for robotics, where a model generates a future visual rollout conditioned on the current observation and task instruct…

cs.AI2026

GameUIAgent: An LLM-Powered Framework for Automated Game UI Design with Structured Intermediate Representation

Wei Zeng, Fengwei An, Zhen Liu +1

Game UI design requires consistent visual assets across rarity tiers yet remains a predominantly manual process. We present GameUIAgent, an LLM-powered agentic framework that trans…

cs.LG2026

Value Gradient Guidance for Flow Matching Alignment

Zhen Liu, Tim Z. Xiao, Carles Domingo-Enrich +2

While methods exist for aligning flow matching models--a popular and effective class of generative models--with human preferences, existing approaches fail to achieve both adaptati…