VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Xuyuan Xiong
dblp:388/1508
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
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
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 50% Trustworthy machine learning · 50% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability › explainable reinforcement learning
decision tree policy |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision Processes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
markov decision process |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision Processes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability › explainable reinforcement learning
policy explanation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision Processes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision Processes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Mathematical optimization › discrete optimization
mixed integer linear programming |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision Processes · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
parallel search · 1.7branch-and-bound · 1.7mixed-integer linear programming · 0.9mixed integer linear programming · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SPOT: Scalable Policy Optimization with Trees for Markov Decision ProcessesabstractInterpretable reinforcement learning policies are essential for high-stakes decision-making, yet optimizing decision tree policies in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) remains challenging. We propose SPOT, a novel method for computing decision tree policies, which formulates the optimization problem as a mixed-integer linear program (MILP). To enhance efficiency, we employ a reduced-space branch-and-bound approach that decouples the MDP dynamics from tree-structure constraints, enabling efficient parallel search. This significantly improves runtime and scalability compared to previous methods. Our approach ensures that each iteration yields the optimal decision tree. Experimental results on standard benchmarks demonstrate that SPOT achieves substantial speedup and scales to larger MDPs with a significantly higher number of states. The resulting decision tree policies are interpretable and compact, maintaining transparency without compromising performance. These results demonstrate that our approach simultaneously achieves interpretability and scalability, delivering high-quality policies an order of magnitude faster than existing approaches. Xuyuan Xiong, Pedro Chumpitaz-Flores, Kaixun Hua, Cheng Hua |
NeurIPS | 1 |