8 papers
ReTaCo: Residual-Target Control for On-Policy Distillation
Zixiang Ni, Zhuo Hu, Renjie Cao +8
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated prefixes with token-level teacher feedback, but transmitting or storing the teacher's full-vocabulary distributio…
Where Does the Human End? Creative Agency with Generative AI across Five Years of Chinese Digital Painting
Yibo Meng, Ruiqi Chen, Shuheng Cao +2
As generative AI enters creative work, practitioners must decide where AI assistance ends and human authorship begins. Human-agent interaction (HAI) research has examined AI as a t…
When Unpaired Sets Support Shared-Corruption Calibration: Moment Geometry and Two-Sample Precision
Shuheng Cao, Zhenhao Zhang, Ruiqi Chen +5
Collections of diverse observations often share one acquisition, processing, geometric, or channel corruption, while only an unpaired clean reference set is available. For a prescr…
RCShift: Certifying When Partial Linkage Suffices for Finite-Sample Decisions
Shuheng Cao, Ruiqi Chen, Zhenhao Zhang +5
Systems with costly gold outcomes and cheaper auxiliary observations must decide how much record linkage to retain. Complete pairing retains every joint counter, while separate mar…
KNOWPLAN: Knowledge-Driven AI Agents for Smart Degree Pathway Planning
Shuheng Cao, Weijia Zhang, Jiaqi Wu +4
Planning a degree from official university sources requires solving two problems in order. The institution's curriculum must first be reconstructed from catalogs, departmental page…
CertBind from Multimodal Connectivity to Certifiable Retrieval Decisions
Shuheng Cao, Zhenhao Zhang, Ruiqi Chen +7
Lightweight connectors make frozen multimodal encoders composable at the representation level. Deployment exposes a second problem at the level of task decisions. A connected route…
CyberNeuro: A Privacy-Preserving Agentic Workbench for Cohort-Scale Neuroimage and Clinical Data Analysis
Ran Ren, Junhong Tong, Yunxi Kong +10
Despite tremendous success in neuroimaging methodology, making large-scale, high-dimensional datasets ready for AI/ML applications remains a critical operational bottleneck. Conven…
Beyond Agreement: Scoring Panel-Surfaced Biomedical Entity Candidates for Curator Triage
Shuheng Cao, Ruiqi Chen, Renjie Cao +3
Biomedical NER is deceptively simple for modern LLMs: plausible biomedical mentions are easy to surface, but corpus-convention correctness depends on annotation conventions, span b…