VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Runyu Peng
dblp:289/3207
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3ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Language models and text generation · 75% Efficient and distributed learning · 12% Reinforcement learning · 12% |
Topics — the 8 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
alignment |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Implicit Reward as the Bridge: A Unified View of SFT and DPO Connections · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › preference optimization
direct preference optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Implicit Reward as the Bridge: A Unified View of SFT and DPO Connections · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model inference
hybrid inference |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Firewall Routing: Blocking Leads to Better Hybrid Inference for LLMs · EMNLP 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › inference efficiency
inference optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Firewall Routing: Blocking Leads to Better Hybrid Inference for LLMs · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model inference |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Firewall Routing: Blocking Leads to Better Hybrid Inference for LLMs · EMNLP 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model training
post-training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Implicit Reward as the Bridge: A Unified View of SFT and DPO Connections · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
preference learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Implicit Reward as the Bridge: A Unified View of SFT and DPO Connections · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › large language model › large language model adaptation
supervised fine-tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Implicit Reward as the Bridge: A Unified View of SFT and DPO Connections · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
soft blocking · 0.9routing model · 0.9q-function · 0.9multiple sampling · 0.9hard blocking · 0.9f-divergence · 0.9KL divergence · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Firewall Routing: Blocking Leads to Better Hybrid Inference for LLMsabstractThe rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet the high computational costs and latency associated with deploying such models continue to pose critical bottlenecks, limiting their broader applicability.To mitigate these challenges, we propose a dynamic hybrid inference framework, Firewall Routing, which efficiently selects between a strong and a weak LLMs based on the complexity of the query.A lightweight routing model is trained to optimize resource allocation by learning from response quality and preventing longtail queries, which are often too hard to solve by LLMs, from being routed to the stronger model.Moreover, our method incorporates multiple sampling to enhance query evaluation reliability while leveraging Hard Blocking and Soft Blocking to handle long-tail queries along with refining labels for model selection.Extensive experiments show our method outperforms existing routing strategies by up to 5.29% in APGR, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks. Runyu Peng, Yunhua Zhou, Kai Lv 0001, Yang Gao 0042, Qipeng Guo, Xipeng Qiu |
EMNLP | 1 |
| 2025 | Implicit Reward as the Bridge: A Unified View of SFT and DPO ConnectionsabstractPost-training processes are essential phases in grounding pre-trained language models to real-world tasks, with learning from demonstrations or preference signals playing a crucial role in this adaptation. We present a unified theoretical framework bridging Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and preference learning in Large Language Model (LLM) post-training. Through rigorous mathematical derivation, we demonstrate that both SFT and preference learning methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) operate within the same optimal policy-reward subspace, with SFT representing a special case of implicit reward learning. Our analysis reveals a critical limitation in conventional SFT: the KL divergence term in distribution matching becomes constant with respect to the policy during optimization, failing to constrain model updates. To address this, we propose a simple yet effective learning rate reduction approach that yields significant performance improvements (up to \textbf{25\%} relative gain and \textbf{6\%} absolute win rate increase in instruction following tasks. Additionally, we derive alternative SFT objectives from various f-divergence functions that preserve the KL term during optimization, further enhancing post-DPO model performance. Finally, we extend the theoretical relationship between LLM logits and Q-functions from preference learning to the SFT context, providing mathematical derivations and experimental validation. Bo Wang 0084, Qinyuan Cheng, Runyu Peng, Rong Bao, Peiji Li, Qipeng Guo, Linyang Li, Zhiyuan Zeng 0004, Yunhua Zhou, Xipeng Qiu |
NeurIPS | 3 |
| 2020 | Look into Multi-Person: A New Benchmark for Pose Estimation and Human ParsingabstractHuman parsing and pose estimation, regarded as two fundamental tasks to analyze human in the wild, are the basis of upper-level tasks, such as human action recognition and person re-identification. The lack of a comprehensive multi-person dataset, which contains the annotations of both human part labels and skeleton keypoint labels, makes that most of the joint learning work for pose estimation and human parsing can only focus on the single-person scene. To fill this gap, we proposed a comprehensive multi-person dataset Look into Multi-Person (LIMP) with 10,082 multi-person images. And we adopt data augmentation strategies to enrich the dataset's diversity which contains more texture, more occlusion, and more in-the-wild images than CIHP. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive multi-person dataset for pose estimation and human parsing. Yanlu Cai, Runyu Peng, Yipei Xu, Chenzhe Jin, Cheng Jin 0001 |
IEEE BigData | 3 |