VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Aya Laajil
dblp:419/5863
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 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 |
Generative modeling · 61% Reinforcement learning · 30% Optimization for machine learning · 9% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
exploration |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Loss-Guided Auxiliary Agents for Overcoming Mode Collapse in GFlowNets · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
generative flow networks |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Loss-Guided Auxiliary Agents for Overcoming Mode Collapse in GFlowNets · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › generative adversarial network › GAN training
mode collapse |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Loss-Guided Auxiliary Agents for Overcoming Mode Collapse in GFlowNets · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reward shaping · 1.0auxiliary loss · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Loss-Guided Auxiliary Agents for Overcoming Mode Collapse in GFlowNetsabstractAlthough Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are designed to capture multiple modes of a reward function, they often suffer from mode collapse in practice, getting trapped in early-discovered modes and requiring prolonged training to find diverse solutions. Existing exploration techniques often rely on heuristic novelty signals. We propose Loss-Guided GFlowNets (LGGFN), a novel approach where an auxiliary GFlowNet's exploration is directly driven by the main GFlowNet's training loss. By prioritizing trajectories where the main model exhibits high loss, LGGFN focuses sampling on poorly understood regions of the state space. This targeted exploration significantly accelerates the discovery of diverse, high-reward samples. Empirically, across diverse benchmarks including grid environments, structured sequence generation, Bayesian structure learning, and biological sequence design, LGGFN consistently outperforms baselines in exploration efficiency and sample diversity. For instance, on a challenging sequence generation task, it discovered over 40 times more unique valid modes while simultaneously reducing the exploration error metric by approximately 99%. Idriss Malek, Aya Laajil, Abhijith Sharma, Eric Moulines, Salem Lahlou |
AAAI | 2 |