3 papers
math.ST2026
Multi-Armed Bandits With Machine Learning-Generated Surrogate Rewards
Wenlong Ji, Yihan Pan, Ruihao Zhu +1
Multi-armed bandit (MAB) is a widely adopted framework for sequential decision-making under uncertainty. Traditional bandit algorithms rely solely on online data, which tends to be…
cs.CV2026
ECHO: Towards Emotionally Appropriate and Contextually Aware Interactive Head Generation
Xiangyu Kong, Xiaoyu Jin, Yihan Pan +6
In natural face-to-face interaction, participants seamlessly alternate between speaking and listening, producing facial behaviors (FBs) that are finely informed by long-range conte…
cs.CV2025
LLIA -- Enabling Low-Latency Interactive Avatars: Real-Time Audio-Driven Portrait Video Generation with Diffusion Models
Haojie Yu, Zhaonian Wang, Yihan Pan +7
Diffusion-based models have gained wide adoption in the virtual human generation due to their outstanding expressiveness. However, their substantial computational requirements have…