VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Derek Qiang Xu
dblp:404/6252
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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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 |
Deep learning architectures and training · 56% Language models and text generation · 44% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
in-context learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Mixture of In-Context Prompters for Tabular PFNs · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
tabular data learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Mixture of In-Context Prompters for Tabular PFNs · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
mixture of experts |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Mixture of In-Context Prompters for Tabular PFNs · ICLR 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sparse mixture-of-experts · 0.9in-context learning · 0.9fine-tuning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mixture of In-Context Prompters for Tabular PFNsabstractRecent benchmarks find In-Context Learning (ICL) outperforms both deep learning and tree-based algorithms on small tabular datasets. However, on larger datasets, ICL for tabular learning suffers in both efficiency and effectiveness. In terms of efficiency, transformers incur linear space and quadratic time complexity w.r.t. context size. In terms of effectiveness, contexts at inference encounter distribution shift compared to contexts from pretraining. We propose MixturePFN, which extends Sparse Mixture of Experts to the state-of-the-art ICL for tabular learning model. Specifically, MixturePFN finetunes a specialized ICL expert on each cluster of tabular data and routes new test samples to appropriate experts at inference. MixturePFN supports constant-size contexts by splitting large training datasets into more manageable clusters. MixturePFN addresses distribution shift by finetuning an expert on each training dataset cluster via bootstrapping. Extensive experimental results shows MixturePFN outperforms 19 baselines both in mean rank and as the Condorcet winner across 36 diverse tabular datasets under both accuracy and F1 score with statistical significance. Derek Qiang Xu, Olcay Cirit, Reza Asadi, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang 0010 |
ICLR | 1 |