VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Wenzhi Tao
dblp:396/7312
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-2157-4721ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 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 |
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 50% Reinforcement learning · 50% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Noise-Resilient Symbolic Regression with Dynamic Gating Reinforcement Learning · AAAI 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
symbolic regression |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Noise-Resilient Symbolic Regression with Dynamic Gating Reinforcement Learning · AAAI 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 0.9mixed path entropy · 0.9dynamic gating · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Noise-Resilient Symbolic Regression with Dynamic Gating Reinforcement LearningabstractSymbolic regression (SR) has emerged as a pivotal technique for uncovering the intrinsic information within data and enhancing the interpretability of AI models. However, current state-of-the-art (sota) SR methods struggle to perform correct recovery of symbolic expressions from high-noise data. To address this issue, we introduce a novel noise-resilient SR (NRSR) method capable of recovering expressions from high-noise data. Our method leverages a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach in conjunction with a designed noise-resilient gating module (NGM) to learn symbolic selection policies. The gating module can dynamically filter the meaningless information from high-noise data, thereby demonstrating a high noise-resilient capability for the SR process. And we also design a mixed path entropy (MPE) bonus term in the RL process to increase the exploration capabilities of the policy. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms several popular baselines on benchmarks with high-noise data. Furthermore, our method also can achieve sota performance on benchmarks with clean data, showcasing its robustness and efficacy in SR tasks. Chenglu Sun, Shuo Shen 0002, Wenzhi Tao, Deyi Xue, Zixia Zhou |
AAAI | 3 |
| 2025 | Enhancing AI-Bot Strength and Strategy Diversity in Adversarial Games: A Novel Deep Reinforcement Learning FrameworkabstractDeep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a leading technique for designing AI-bots in the gaming industry. However, practical implementation of DRL-trained bots often encounter two significant challenges: improving strength and diversifying strategies to satisfy player expectations. We observe that the strength of AI-bots are intrinsically tied to the diversity of emerged strategies. Considering this relationship, we introduce diversity is strength (DIS), a novel DRL training framework capable of concurrently training multiple types of AI-bots for adversarial games. These bots are interconnected through an elaborated history model pool (HMP) structure, thereby improving their strength and strategy diversity to tackle the aforementioned challenges. We further devise a model evaluation and sampling scheme to form the HMP, identify superior models, and enrich the model strategies. The DIS can generate diverse and reliable strategies without the need for human data. This method is validated by achieving first-place finishes in two AI competitions based on complex adversarial games, including Google Research Football and Olympic Games. Experiments demonstrate that bots trained using DIS attain an excellent performance and plentiful strategies. Specifically, diversity analysis demonstrates that the trained bots possess a wealth of strategies, and ablation studies confirm the beneficial impact of the designed modules on the training process. Chenglu Sun, Shuo Shen 0002, Deyi Xue, Wenzhi Tao, Zixia Zhou |
IEEE Trans. Games | 4 |