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Yi Khuen Chai
dblp:429/6553
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1ranked-venue papers
1as 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 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 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 |
Language models and text generation · 91% Trustworthy machine learning · 9% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › preference optimization
direct preference optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Adaptive KL Control for Direct Preference Optimization in Instruction-Following LLMs · AAAI 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › alignment
preference alignment |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Adaptive KL Control for Direct Preference Optimization in Instruction-Following LLMs · AAAI 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
preference optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Adaptive KL Control for Direct Preference Optimization in Instruction-Following LLMs · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
dual feedback loop · 1.0adaptive KL control · 1.0EMA smoothing · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Adaptive KL Control for Direct Preference Optimization in Instruction-Following LLMsabstractThe scaling parameter β in Direct Preference Optimization governs a fundamental trade-off: low β produces weak gradients that fail to learn from ambiguous preferences, while high β amplifies updates and causes excessive drift from the reference policy. Prior work treats β as fixed or scheduled throughout training. We introduce DualLoop-DPO, which modulates β via dual feedback: a fast loop raises β temporarily on high-uncertainty batches to enforce stronger preference margins, while a slow loop uses EMA-smoothed KL tracking to regulate policy drift. Experiments on preference alignment benchmarks show consistent improvements over existing static-β, β-scheduling, and dynamic-β baselines. These findings suggest that dual-loop β control—responding to uncertainty for learning and divergence for stability—offers a promising direction for preference-based fine-tuning. Yi Khuen Chai |
AAAI | 1 |