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Tong Yu

Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, USA

53 papers at tracked venues · 27 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

EMNLP ×8NAACL ×8WWW ×6ACL ×5ICML ×4ICLR ×3NeurIPS ×3AAAI ×2EACL ×2IROS ×2SIGMOD ×2WSDM ×2AAMAS ×1AISTATS ×1CHI ×1RecSys ×1SIGKDD ×1WACV ×1

Frequent coauthors

Ryan A. Rossi
×28
Sungchul Kim
×24
Junda Wu
×21
Julian J. McAuley
×19
Yu Xia
×14
Xiang Chen
×14
Lina Yao
×14
Ruiyi Zhang
×13
Franck Dernoncourt
×10
Jiuxiang Gu
×10
Shuai Li
×9
Nedim Lipka
×7

Papers

  1. A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation
    EACL 2026 ·
    Bo Ni
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Leyao Wang
    ,
    Branislav Kveton
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Hongjie Chen
    ,
    Reuben Luera
    ,
    Samyadeep Basu
    ,
    Subhojyoti Mukherjee
    ,
    Puneet Mathur
    ,
    Nesreen K. Ahmed
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Li Li
    ,
    Huixin Zhang
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    , Tong Yu,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Zhengzhong Tu
    ,
    Alexa F. Siu
    ,
    Zichao Wang
    ,
    Seunghyun Yoon
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
    ,
    Namyong Park
    ,
    Zihao Lin
    ,
    Trung Bui
    ,
    Yue Zhao
    ,
    Tyler Derr
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
  2. Building, Serving, and Growing a Conversational AI Assistant for Enterprise
    SIGMOD 2026 ·
    Sumit Bhatia
    ,
    Vidit Bhatia
    ,
    Uttaran Bhattacharya
    ,
    Victor Soares Bursztyn
    ,
    Liqun Chen
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Sally Fang
    ,
    Horia Galatanu
    ,
    Manas Garg
    ,
    Shaddy Garg
    ,
    Rachel Hanessian
    ,
    Alex Hodorogea
    ,
    Shun Jiang
    ,
    Bhumir Jhaveri
    ,
    Nishant Kapoor
    ,
    Yongsung Kim
    ,
    Eunyee Koh
    ,
    Namita Krishnan
    ,
    Yunyao Li
    ,
    Zifan Liu
    ,
    Akash Maharaj
    ,
    Tung Mai
    ,
    Saayan Mitra
    ,
    Vaishnavi Muppala
    ,
    Ramasuri Narayanam
    ,
    Soumyabrata Pal
    ,
    Kun Qian
    ,
    Sajjadur Rahman
    ,
    Ken Russell
    ,
    Bikas Saha
    ,
    Siddhartha Sahai
    ,
    Som Satapathy
    ,
    Rohan Saxena
    ,
    Sai Sree Harsha
    ,
    Anirudh Sureshan
    ,
    Shashank Tandon
    ,
    Md. Mehrab Tanjim
    ,
    Saurabh Tripathy
    ,
    Anirudh Verma
    ,
    Fei Wu
    , Tong Yu
  3. CachePrune: Teaching LLMs What Not to Follow via KV-Cache Editing
    ACL 2026 ·
    Rui Wang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yu Xia
    , Tong Yu,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Subrata Mitra
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  4. DrunkAgent: Stealthy Memory Corruption in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents
    WWW 2026 ·
    Shiyi Yang
    ,
    Zhibo Hu
    ,
    Xinshu Li
    ,
    Chen Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiwei Xu
    ,
    Liming Zhu
    ,
    Lina Yao
  5. Dual Conditional Diffusion for Sequential Recommendation
    WSDM 2026 ·
    Hongtao Huang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiaojun Chang
    ,
    Wen Hu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Lina Yao
  6. Multi-Agent Collaborative Filtering: Orchestrating Users and Items for Agentic Recommendations
    WWW 2026 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    , Tong Yu,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  7. Skill Discovery for Software Scripting Automation via Offline Simulations with LLMs
    EACL 2026 ·
    Paiheng Xu
    ,
    Gang Wu
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    , Tong Yu,
    Chang Xiao
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    Wei Ai
    ,
    Viswanathan (Vishy) Swaminathan
  8. VipAct: Visual-Perception Enhancement via Specialized VLM Agent Collaboration and Tool-use
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Zhehao Zhang
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    , Tong Yu,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Zichao Wang
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
  9. A Tutorial on Agentic LLM for Recommender Systems
    RecSys 2025 ·
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    , Tong Yu,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Lina Yao
  10. ARTIST: Improving the Generation of Text-Rich Images with Disentangled Diffusion Models and Large Language Models
    WACV 2025 ·
    Jianyi Zhang
    ,
    Yufan Zhou
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Curtis Wigington
    , Tong Yu,
    Yiran Chen
    ,
    Tong Sun
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
  11. Adaptive Offline Data Replay in Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Xu Liu
    , Tong Yu,
    Shuai Li
  12. Augment before You Try: Knowledge-Enhanced Table Question Answering via Table Expansion
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yujian Liu
    ,
    Jiabao Ji
    , Tong Yu,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Ritwik Sinha
    ,
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Shiyu Chang
  13. Cache-Craft: Managing Chunk-Caches for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    SIGMOD 2025 ·
    Shubham Agarwal
    ,
    Sai Sundaresan
    ,
    Subrata Mitra
    ,
    Debabrata Mahapatra
    ,
    Archit Gupta
    ,
    Rounak Sharma
    ,
    Nirmal Joshua Kapu
    , Tong Yu,
    Shiv Kumar Saini
  14. Causal Discovery-Driven Change Point Detection in Time Series
    AISTATS 2025 ·
    Shanyun Gao
    ,
    Raghavendra Addanki
    , Tong Yu,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Murat Kocaoglu
  15. CoMMIT: Coordinated Multimodal Instruction Tuning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Junda Wu
    , Tong Yu,
    Rui Wang
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
  16. Diffusion Policies for Risk-Averse Behavior Modeling in Offline Reinforcement Learning
    IROS 2025 ·
    Xiaocong Chen
    ,
    Siyu Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Lina Yao
  17. Diversify-verify-adapt: Efficient and Robust Retrieval-Augmented Ambiguous Question Answering
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Yeonjun In
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Md. Mehrab Tanjim
    , Tong Yu,
    Ritwik Sinha
    ,
    Chanyoung Park
  18. Doc-React: Multi-page Heterogeneous Document Question-answering
    ACL 2025 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yu Xia
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Sai Sree Harsha
    ,
    Akash V. Maharaj
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Victor S. Bursztyn
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Yunyao Li
    ,
    Ritwik Sinha
  19. Explainable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: An Empirical Analysis on State-Aware Reasoning Dynamics
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Sheldon Yu
    ,
    Yuxin Xiong
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Xintong Li
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Ritwik Sinha
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  20. Federated In-Context Learning: Iterative Refinement for Improved Answer Quality
    ICML 2025 ·
    Ruhan Wang
    ,
    Zhiyong Wang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Rui Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    John C. S. Lui
    ,
    Dongruo Zhou
  21. From Selection to Generation: A Survey of LLM-based Active Learning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Subhojyoti Mukherjee
    ,
    Zhouhang Xie
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Ryan Aponte
    ,
    Hanjia Lyu
    ,
    Joe Barrow
    ,
    Hongjie Chen
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Branislav Kveton
    , Tong Yu,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Nesreen K. Ahmed
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Hanieh Deilamsalehy
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Zhengmian Hu
    ,
    Yue Zhao
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
    ,
    Seunghyun Yoon
    ,
    Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang
    ,
    Zichao Wang
    ,
    Puneet Mathur
    ,
    Soumyabrata Pal
    ,
    Koyel Mukherjee
    ,
    Zhehao Zhang
    ,
    Namyong Park
    ,
    Thien Huu Nguyen
    ,
    Jiebo Luo
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  22. Fully Dynamic Embedding into ℓp Spaces
    ICML 2025 ·
    Kiarash Banihashem
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Kanak Mahadik
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    , Tong Yu
  23. GUI Agents: A Survey
    ACL 2025 ·
    Dang Nguyen
    ,
    Jian Chen
    ,
    Yu Wang
    ,
    Gang Wu
    ,
    Namyong Park
    ,
    Zhengmian Hu
    ,
    Hanjia Lyu
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Ryan Aponte
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Jing Shi
    ,
    Hongjie Chen
    ,
    Viet Dac Lai
    ,
    Zhouhang Xie
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    , Tong Yu,
    Md. Mehrab Tanjim
    ,
    Nesreen K. Ahmed
    ,
    Puneet Mathur
    ,
    Seunghyun Yoon
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Branislav Kveton
    ,
    Jihyung Kil
    ,
    Thien Huu Nguyen
    ,
    Trung Bui
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
  24. Image Difference Captioning via Adversarial Preference Optimization
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zihan Huang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Rohan Surana
    , Tong Yu,
    David Arbour
    ,
    Ritwik Sinha
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  25. Interactive Visualization Recommendation with Hier-SUCB
    WWW 2025 ·
    Songwen Hu
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    , Tong Yu,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Shuai Li
  26. Knowledge-Aware Query Expansion with Large Language Models for Textual and Relational Retrieval
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    , Tong Yu,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Haoliang Wang
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  27. LaMP-Cap: Personalized Figure Caption Generation With Multimodal Figure Profiles
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Ho Yin Sam Ng
    ,
    Edward Hsu
    ,
    Aashish Anantha Ramakrishnan
    ,
    Branislav Kveton
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Dongwon Lee
    , Tong Yu,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang
  28. Large Language Models and Causal Inference in Collaboration: A Comprehensive Survey
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Xiaoyu Liu
    ,
    Paiheng Xu
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Jiaxin Yuan
    ,
    Yifan Yang
    ,
    Yuhang Zhou
    ,
    Fuxiao Liu
    ,
    Tianrui Guan
    ,
    Haoliang Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Wei Ai
    ,
    Furong Huang
  29. Listwise Preference Diffusion Optimization for User Behavior Trajectories Prediction
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Hongtao Huang
    ,
    Chengkai Huang
    ,
    Junda Wu
    , Tong Yu,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Lina Yao
  30. Mitigating Visual Knowledge Forgetting in MLLM Instruction-tuning via Modality-decoupled Gradient Descent
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yuxin Xiong
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Yu Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  31. Numerical Pruning for Efficient Autoregressive Models
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Xuan Shen
    ,
    Zhao Song
    ,
    Yufa Zhou
    ,
    Bo Chen
    ,
    Jing Liu
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Hao Tan
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Yufan Zhou
    ,
    Tong Sun
    ,
    Pu Zhao
    ,
    Yanzhi Wang
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
  32. OCEAN: Offline Chain-of-thought Evaluation and Alignment in Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Xintong Li
    ,
    Ruoyu Wang
    ,
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Yuxin Xiong
    ,
    Jianing Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Branislav Kveton
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Jingbo Shang
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  33. Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Classifier-Free Diffusion Generation
    ICML 2025 ·
    Xiao Huang
    ,
    Xu Liu
    ,
    Enze Zhang
    , Tong Yu,
    Shuai Li
  34. Personalizing Data Delivery: Investigating User Characteristics and Enhancing LLM Predictions
    WWW 2025 ·
    Reuben Luera
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Alexa F. Siu
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    , Tong Yu,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
    ,
    Zhehao Zhang
    ,
    Seon Gyeom Kim
    ,
    Tak Yeon Lee
  35. SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action Deliberation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Yiran Shen
    ,
    Junda Wu
    , Tong Yu,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  36. SV-RAG: LoRA-Contextualizing Adaptation of MLLMs for Long Document Understanding
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jian Chen
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Yufan Zhou
    , Tong Yu,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Changyou Chen
    ,
    Tong Sun
  37. Self-Debiasing Large Language Models: Zero-Shot Recognition and Reduction of Stereotypes
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Isabel O. Gallegos
    ,
    Ryan Aponte
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Joe Barrow
    ,
    Md. Mehrab Tanjim
    , Tong Yu,
    Hanieh Deilamsalehy
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
    ,
    Deonna M. Owens
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
  38. Weakly-supervised VLM-guided Partial Contrastive Learning for Visual Language Navigation
    IROS 2025 ·
    Ruoyu Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Yao Liu
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Lina Yao
  39. Advancing Vision-Language Models with Adapter Ensemble Strategies
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yue Bai
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Zhe Lin
    ,
    Ajinkya Kale
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    , Tong Yu,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Yun Fu
  40. Aligning as Debiasing: Causality-Aware Alignment via Reinforcement Learning with Interventional Feedback
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Yu Xia
    , Tong Yu,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
    ,
    Shuai Li
  41. Calibrating Reasoning in Language Models with Internal Consistency
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Zhihui Xie
    ,
    Jizhou Guo
    , Tong Yu,
    Shuai Li
  42. CoRAL: Collaborative Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models Improve Long-tail Recommendation
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Cheng-Chun Chang
    , Tong Yu,
    Zhankui He
    ,
    Jianing Wang
    ,
    Yupeng Hou
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  43. DeCoT: Debiasing Chain-of-Thought for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks in Large Language Models via Causal Intervention
    ACL 2024 ·
    Junda Wu
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Haoliang Wang
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Anup B. Rao
    ,
    Julian J. McAuley
  44. Editing Partially Observable Networks via Graph Diffusion Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Puja Trivedi
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    David Arbour
    , Tong Yu,
    Franck Dernoncourt
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Nedim Lipka
    ,
    Namyong Park
    ,
    Nesreen K. Ahmed
    ,
    Danai Koutra
  45. Hallucination Diversity-Aware Active Learning for Text Summarization
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Xu Liu
    , Tong Yu,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Anup B. Rao
    ,
    Tung Mai
    ,
    Shuai Li
  46. Interact with the Explanations: Causal Debiased Explainable Recommendation System
    WSDM 2024 ·
    Xu Liu
    , Tong Yu,
    Kaige Xie
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Shuai Li
  47. Personalized Federated Learning for Text Classification with Gradient-Free Prompt Tuning
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Rui Wang
    , Tong Yu,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Junda Wu
    ,
    Subrata Mitra
    ,
    Lina Yao
    ,
    Ricardo Henao
  48. SciCapenter: Supporting Caption Composition for Scientific Figures with Machine-Generated Captions and Ratings
    CHI 2024 ·
    Ting-Yao Hsu
    ,
    Chieh-Yang Huang
    ,
    Shih-Hong Huang
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    , Tong Yu,
    C. Lee Giles
    ,
    Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang
  49. Self-Cleaning: Improving a Named Entity Recognizer Trained on Noisy Data with a Few Clean Instances
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Zhendong Chu
    ,
    Ruiyi Zhang
    , Tong Yu,
    Rajiv Jain
    ,
    Vlad I. Morariu
    ,
    Jiuxiang Gu
    ,
    Ani Nenkova
  50. Tackling Long-Tail Entities for Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion
    WWW 2024 ·
    Mehrnoosh Mirtaheri
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Kanak Mahadik
    , Tong Yu,
    Xiang Chen
    ,
    Mohammad Rostami
  51. The Closeness of In-Context Learning and Weight Shifting for Softmax Regression
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Shuai Li
    ,
    Zhao Song
    ,
    Yu Xia
    , Tong Yu,
    Tianyi Zhou
  52. ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Yuchen Zhuang
    ,
    Xiang Chen
    , Tong Yu,
    Saayan Mitra
    ,
    Victor S. Bursztyn
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Somdeb Sarkhel
    ,
    Chao Zhang
  53. Which LLM to Play? Convergence-Aware Online Model Selection with Time-Increasing Bandits
    WWW 2024 ·
    Yu Xia
    ,
    Fang Kong
    , Tong Yu,
    Liya Guo
    ,
    Ryan A. Rossi
    ,
    Sungchul Kim
    ,
    Shuai Li