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20242026
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10 papers

cs.LG2026

ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment

Xiaoqiang Lin, Arun Verma, Zhongxiang Dai +3

The recent success in using human preferences to align large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved their performance in various downstream tasks, such as question answe…

cs.LG2025

Active Human Feedback Collection via Neural Contextual Dueling Bandits

Arun Verma, Xiaoqiang Lin, Zhongxiang Dai +2

Collecting human preference feedback is often expensive, leading recent works to develop principled algorithms to select them more efficiently. However, these works assume that the…

cs.LG2025

Refining Adaptive Zeroth-Order Optimization at Ease

Yao Shu, Qixin Zhang, Kun He +1

Recently, zeroth-order (ZO) optimization plays an essential role in scenarios where gradient information is inaccessible or unaffordable, such as black-box systems and resource-con…

cs.LG2025

Neural Dueling Bandits: Preference-Based Optimization with Human Feedback

Arun Verma, Zhongxiang Dai, Xiaoqiang Lin +2

Contextual dueling bandit is used to model the bandit problems, where a learner's goal is to find the best arm for a given context using observed noisy human preference feedback ov…

cs.AI2024

Prompt Optimization with EASE? Efficient Ordering-aware Automated Selection of Exemplars

Zhaoxuan Wu, Xiaoqiang Lin, Zhongxiang Dai +5

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in real-world applications. The capability of in-context learning (ICL) allows us to adapt an LLM to downstream task…

cs.LG2024

Adjusted Expected Improvement for Cumulative Regret Minimization in Noisy Bayesian Optimization

Shouri Hu, Haowei Wang, Zhongxiang Dai +2

The expected improvement (EI) is one of the most popular acquisition functions for Bayesian optimization (BO) and has demonstrated good empirical performances in many applications…