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Steve (Xue) Liu
dblp:438/1770
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 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% Language models and text generation · 33% Efficient and distributed learning · 17% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Wearable and physiological sensing · 50% Accessibility and assistive technology · 50% |
Topics — the 8 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › policy optimization
group relative policy optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
imitation learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
LLM agents |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › distillation
teacher-student distillation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › LLM agents › web agents
web agent training |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis · NeurIPS 2025 |
Accessibility and assistive technology
assistive technology |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies · NeurIPS 2025 |
Wearable and physiological sensing
brain-computer interface |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
large language model · 0.9hyperparameter sensitivity analysis · 0.9bootstrapping · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive TechnologiesabstractBrain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) offer a direct communication pathway between the human brain and external devices, holding significant promise for individuals with severe neurological impairments. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by critical limitations, such as low information transfer rates and extensive user-specific calibration. To overcome these challenges, recent research has explored the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs), extending the focus from simple command decoding to understanding complex cognitive states.Despite these advancements, deploying agentic AI faces technical hurdles and ethical concerns.Due to the lack of comprehensive discussion on this emerging direction, this position paper argues that the field is poised for a paradigm extension from BCI to Brain-Agent Collaboration (BAC).We emphasize reframing agents as active and collaborative partners for intelligent assistance rather than passive brain signal data processors, demanding a focus on ethical data handling, model reliability, and a robust human-agent collaboration framework to ensure these systems are safe, trustworthy, and effective. Yankai Chen 0001, Xinni Zhang, Yangning Li, Henry Peng Zou, Chunyu Miao, Weizhi Zhang 0001, Steve (Xue) Liu, Philip S. Yu |
NeurIPS | 8 |
| 2025 | How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical DiagnosisabstractLarge language model (LLM) agents for web interfaces have advanced rapidly, yet open-source systems still lag behind proprietary agents. Bridging this gap is key to enabling customizable, efficient, and privacy-preserving agents. Two challenges hinder progress: the reproducibility issues in RL and LLM agent training, where results often depend on sensitive factors like seeds and decoding parameters, and the focus of prior work on single-step tasks, overlooking the complexities of web-based, multi-step decision-making.
We address these gaps by providing a statistically driven study of training LLM agents for web tasks. Our two-stage pipeline combines imitation learning from a Llama 3.3 70B teacher with on-policy fine-tuning via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) on a Llama 3.1 8B student. Through 240 configuration sweeps and rigorous bootstrapping, we chart the first compute allocation curve for open-source LLM web agents. Our findings show that dedicating one-third of compute to teacher traces and the rest to RL improves MiniWoB++ success by 6 points and closes 60\% of the gap to GPT-4o on WorkArena, while cutting GPU costs by 45\%. We introduce a principled hyperparameter sensitivity analysis, offering actionable guidelines for robust and cost-effective agent training. Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier de Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Angelard-Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Steve (Xue) Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piché, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia |
NeurIPS | 11 |