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Ying Nian Wu

40 papers at tracked venues · 33 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Kai-Wei Chang
×6
Tong Geng
×5
Dongfang Liu
×5
Xiao Liang
×4
Chunshu Wu
×4
Deqian Kong
×4
Dehong Xu
×4
Jianwen Xie
×4
Eric Hanchen Jiang
×3
Yelong Shen
×3
Weizhu Chen
×3
Yeyun Gong
×3

Papers

  1. Dynamic Generation of Multi LLM Agents Communication Topologies with Graph Diffusion Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Eric Hanchen Jiang
    ,
    Levina Li
    ,
    Frank Wan
    ,
    Xiao Liang
    ,
    Sophia Yin
    ,
    Yuchen Wu
    ,
    Xinfeng Li
    ,
    Yizhou Sun
    ,
    Wei Wang
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    , Ying Nian Wu
  2. Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Geometry Solving with Efficient Heuristic Auxiliary Constructions
    ACL 2026 ·
    Boyan Duan
    ,
    Xiao Liang
    ,
    Shuai Lu
    ,
    Yaoxiang Wang
    ,
    Yelong Shen
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Mao Yang
    ,
    Weizhu Chen
    ,
    Yeyun Gong
  3. Mitigating Over-Refusal in Aligned Large Language Models via Inference-Time Activation Energy
    ACL 2026 ·
    Eric Hanchen Jiang
    ,
    Weixuan Ou
    ,
    Run Liu
    ,
    Shengyuan Pang
    ,
    Guancheng Wan
    ,
    Ranjie Duan
    ,
    Wei Dong
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    ,
    Xiaofeng Wang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Xinfeng Li
  4. Simple Role Assignment is Extraordinarily Effective for Safety Alignment
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhou Ziheng
    ,
    Jiakun Ding
    ,
    Zhaowei Zhang
    ,
    Ruosen Gao
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Demetri Terzopoulos
    ,
    Yipeng Kang
    ,
    Fangwei Zhong
    ,
    Junqi Wang
  5. Training LLMs for Divide-and-Conquer Reasoning Elevates Test-Time Scalability
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xiao Liang
    ,
    Zhong-Zhi Li
    ,
    Zhenghao Lin
    ,
    Eric Hanchen Jiang
    ,
    Hengyuan Zhang
    ,
    Yelong Shen
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Yeyun Gong
    ,
    Weizhu Chen
  6. Why Are We Moral? An LLM-based Agent Simulation Approach to the Study of Moral Evolution
    ACL 2026 ·
    Zhou Ziheng
    ,
    Huacong Tang
    ,
    Mingjie Bi
    ,
    Wanying He
    ,
    Fang Sun
    ,
    Yizhou Sun
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Demetri Terzopoulos
    ,
    Yipeng Kang
    ,
    Fangwei Zhong
  7. An Expressive and Self-Adaptive Dynamical System for Efficient Function Learning
    ICML 2025 ·
    Chuan Liu
    ,
    Chunshu Wu
    ,
    Ruibing Song
    ,
    Ang Li
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Tong Geng
  8. DS-LLM: Leveraging Dynamical Systems to Enhance Both Training and Inference of Large Language Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Ruibing Song
    ,
    Chuan Liu
    ,
    Chunshu Wu
    ,
    Ang Li
    ,
    Dongfang Liu
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Tong Geng
  9. Diff-PIC: Revolutionizing Particle-In-Cell Nuclear Fusion Simulation with Diffusion Models
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Chuan Liu
    ,
    Chunshu Wu
    ,
    Shihui Cao
    ,
    Mingkai Chen
    ,
    James Chenhao Liang
    ,
    Ang Li
    ,
    Michael Huang
    ,
    Chuang Ren
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Dongfang Liu
    ,
    Tong Geng
  10. Embodied Web Agents: Bridging Physical-Digital Realms for Integrated Agent Intelligence
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Yining Hong
    ,
    Rui Sun
    ,
    Bingxuan Li
    ,
    Xingcheng Yao
    ,
    Maxine Wu
    ,
    Alexander Chien
    ,
    Da Yin
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Zhecan James Wang
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
  11. Explore the Reasoning Capability of LLMs in the Chess Testbed
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Shu Wang
    ,
    Lei Ji
    ,
    Renxi Wang
    ,
    Wenxiao Zhao
    ,
    Haokun Liu
    ,
    Yifan Hou
    , Ying Nian Wu
  12. Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
    ICML 2025 ·
    Deqian Kong
    ,
    Minglu Zhao
    ,
    Dehong Xu
    ,
    Bo Pang
    ,
    Shu Wang
    ,
    Edouardo Honig
    ,
    Zhangzhang Si
    ,
    Chuan Li
    ,
    Jianwen Xie
    ,
    Sirui Xie
    , Ying Nian Wu
  13. MLZero: A Multi-Agent System for End-to-end Machine Learning Automation
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Haoyang Fang
    ,
    Boran Han
    ,
    Nick Erickson
    ,
    Xiyuan Zhang
    ,
    Su Zhou
    ,
    Anirudh Dagar
    ,
    Jiani Zhang
    ,
    Ali Caner Türkmen
    ,
    Tony Hu
    ,
    Huzefa Rangwala
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Yuyang Wang
    ,
    George Karypis
  14. Monitoring Primitive Interactions During the Training of DNNs
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Jie Ren
    ,
    Xinhao Zheng
    ,
    Jiyu Liu
    ,
    Andrew Lizarraga
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Liang Lin
    ,
    Quanshi Zhang
  15. On Conformal Isometry of Grid Cells: Learning Distance-Preserving Position Embedding
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Dehong Xu
    ,
    Ruiqi Gao
    ,
    Wenhao Zhang
    ,
    Xue-Xin Wei
    , Ying Nian Wu
  16. On the Analysis and Distillation of Emergent Outlier Properties in Pre-trained Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Tianyang Zhao
    ,
    Kunwar Yashraj Singh
    ,
    Srikar Appalaraju
    ,
    Peng Tang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Li Erran Li
  17. Optimizing the Unknown: Black Box Bayesian Optimization with Energy-Based Model and Reinforcement Learning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ruiyao Miao
    ,
    Junren Xiao
    ,
    Shiya Tsang
    ,
    Hui Xiong
    , Ying Nian Wu
  18. Place Cells as Multi-Scale Position Embeddings: Random Walk Transition Kernels for Path Planning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Minglu Zhao
    ,
    Dehong Xu
    ,
    Deqian Kong
    ,
    Wenhao Zhang
    , Ying Nian Wu
  19. SlowFast-VGen: Slow-Fast Learning for Action-Driven Long Video Generation
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Yining Hong
    ,
    Beide Liu
    ,
    Maxine Wu
    ,
    Yuanhao Zhai
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    ,
    Chung-Ching Lin
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Lijuan Wang
  20. SwS: Self-aware Weakness-driven Problem Synthesis in Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Xiao Liang
    ,
    Zhong-Zhi Li
    ,
    Yeyun Gong
    ,
    Yang Wang
    ,
    Hengyuan Zhang
    ,
    Yelong Shen
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Weizhu Chen
  21. Value-Spectrum: Quantifying Preferences of Vision-Language Models via Value Decomposition in Social Media Contexts
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jingxuan Li
    ,
    Yuning Yang
    ,
    Shengqi Yang
    ,
    Linfan Zhang
    , Ying Nian Wu
  22. Visual Agents as Fast and Slow Thinkers
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Guangyan Sun
    ,
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Zhenting Wang
    ,
    Cheng-Long Wang
    ,
    Siqi Ma
    ,
    Qifan Wang
    ,
    Tong Geng
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Yongfeng Zhang
    ,
    Dongfang Liu
  23. Atlas3D: Physically Constrained Self-Supporting Text-to-3D for Simulation and Fabrication
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yunuo Chen
    ,
    Tianyi Xie
    ,
    Zeshun Zong
    ,
    Xuan Li
    ,
    Feng Gao
    ,
    Yin Yang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Chenfanfu Jiang
  24. EM Distillation for One-step Diffusion Models
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Sirui Xie
    ,
    Zhisheng Xiao
    ,
    Diederik P. Kingma
    ,
    Tingbo Hou
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Kevin P. Murphy
    ,
    Tim Salimans
    ,
    Ben Poole
    ,
    Ruiqi Gao
  25. Flow Priors for Linear Inverse Problems via Iterative Corrupted Trajectory Matching
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yasi Zhang
    ,
    Peiyu Yu
    ,
    Yaxuan Zhu
    ,
    Yingshan Chang
    ,
    Feng Gao
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Oscar Leong
  26. INTERPRET: Interactive Predicate Learning from Language Feedback for Generalizable Task Planning
    RSS 2024 ·
    Muzhi Han
    ,
    Yifeng Zhu
    ,
    Song-Chun Zhu
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Yuke Zhu
  27. Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Cheng Han
    ,
    James Chenhao Liang
    ,
    Qifan Wang
    ,
    Majid Rabbani
    ,
    Sohail A. Dianat
    ,
    Raghuveer Rao
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Dongfang Liu
  28. LLM3: Large Language Model-based Task and Motion Planning with Motion Failure Reasoning
    IROS 2024 ·
    Shu Wang
    ,
    Muzhi Han
    ,
    Ziyuan Jiao
    ,
    Zeyu Zhang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Song-Chun Zhu
    ,
    Hangxin Liu
  29. Latent Plan Transformer for Trajectory Abstraction: Planning as Latent Space Inference
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Deqian Kong
    ,
    Dehong Xu
    ,
    Minglu Zhao
    ,
    Bo Pang
    ,
    Jianwen Xie
    ,
    Andrew Lizarraga
    ,
    Yuhao Huang
    ,
    Sirui Xie
    , Ying Nian Wu
  30. Learning Concept-Based Causal Transition and Symbolic Reasoning for Visual Planning
    IROS 2024 ·
    Yilue Qian
    ,
    Peiyu Yu
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Yao Su
    ,
    Wei Wang
    ,
    Lifeng Fan
  31. Learning Energy-Based Models by Cooperative Diffusion Recovery Likelihood
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Yaxuan Zhu
    ,
    Jianwen Xie
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Ruiqi Gao
  32. Learning for Transductive Threshold Calibration in Open-World Recognition
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Qin Zhang
    ,
    Dongsheng An
    ,
    Tianjun Xiao
    ,
    Tong He
    ,
    Qingming Tang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Joseph Tighe
    ,
    Yifan Xing
  33. Molecule Design by Latent Prompt Transformer
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Deqian Kong
    ,
    Yuhao Huang
    ,
    Jianwen Xie
    ,
    Edouardo Honig
    ,
    Ming Xu
    ,
    Shuanghong Xue
    ,
    Pei Lin
    ,
    Sanping Zhou
    ,
    Sheng Zhong
    ,
    Nanning Zheng
    , Ying Nian Wu
  34. Neural-Symbolic Recursive Machine for Systematic Generalization
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Qing Li
    ,
    Yixin Zhu
    ,
    Yitao Liang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Song-Chun Zhu
    ,
    Siyuan Huang
  35. No Head Left Behind - Multi-Head Alignment Distillation for Transformers
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Tianyang Zhao
    ,
    Kunwar Yashraj Singh
    ,
    Srikar Appalaraju
    ,
    Peng Tang
    ,
    Vijay Mahadevan
    ,
    R. Manmatha
    , Ying Nian Wu
  36. Object-Conditioned Energy-Based Attention Map Alignment in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Yasi Zhang
    ,
    Peiyu Yu
    , Ying Nian Wu
  37. Skews in the Phenomenon Space Hinder Generalization in Text-to-Image Generation
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Yingshan Chang
    ,
    Yasi Zhang
    ,
    Zhiyuan Fang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Yonatan Bisk
    ,
    Feng Gao
  38. The motion planning neural circuit in goal-directed navigation as Lie group operator search
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Junfeng Zuo
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Si Wu
    ,
    Wenhao Zhang
  39. Threshold-Consistent Margin Loss for Open-World Deep Metric Learning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Qin Zhang
    ,
    Linghan Xu
    ,
    Jun Fang
    ,
    Qingming Tang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Joseph Tighe
    ,
    Yifan Xing
  40. Visual Fourier Prompt Tuning
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Runjia Zeng
    ,
    Cheng Han
    ,
    Qifan Wang
    ,
    Chunshu Wu
    ,
    Tong Geng
    ,
    Lifu Huang
    , Ying Nian Wu,
    Dongfang Liu