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Jiaru Zou
dblp:292/7978
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5ranked-venue papers
2as first author
5since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 5 · 2 first-author · 5 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
4 papers |
Transfer learning and domain adaptation · 36% Language models and text generation · 22% Graph learning · 15% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Compilers and program optimization · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100% |
Topics — the 10 heaviest of 10, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
large language model |
1.1 | 2 | 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning · NeurIPS 2025 CoCoST: Automatic Complex Code Generation with Online Searching and Correctness Testing · EMNLP 2024 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
fine-tuning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
link prediction |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | PageRank Bandits for Link Prediction · NeurIPS 2024 |
Compilers and program optimization
code generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | CoCoST: Automatic Complex Code Generation with Online Searching and Correctness Testing · EMNLP 2024 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › bandit
contextual bandit |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Meta-Learning with Neural Bandit Scheduler · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
meta-learning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Meta-Learning with Neural Bandit Scheduler · NeurIPS 2023 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction › scheduling
task scheduling |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Meta-Learning with Neural Bandit Scheduler · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Transfer learning and domain adaptation
model adaptation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuning · NeurIPS 2025 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › multi-armed bandit
contextual bandits |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | PageRank Bandits for Link Prediction · NeurIPS 2024 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
multi-armed bandit |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | PageRank Bandits for Link Prediction · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
contextual bandit · 2.2test case generation · 1.5pagerank · 1.5online search · 1.5correctness testing · 1.5mistake log · 0.9joint training · 0.9copilot model · 0.9exploration-exploitation balancing · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Transformer Copilot: Learning from The Mistake Log in LLM Fine-tuningabstractLarge language models are typically adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning on domain-specific data. While standard fine-tuning focuses on minimizing generation loss to optimize model parameters, we take a deeper step by retaining and leveraging the model’s own learning signals, analogous to how human learners reflect on past mistakes to improve future performance. We first introduce the concept of Mistake Log to systematically track the model’s learning behavior and recurring errors throughout fine-tuning. Treating the original transformer-based model as the Pilot, we correspondingly design a Copilot model to refine the Pilot’s inference performance via logits rectification. We name the overall Pilot-Copilot framework the Transformer Copilot, which introduces (i) a novel Copilot model design, (ii) a joint training paradigm where the Copilot continuously learns from the evolving Mistake Log alongside the Pilot, and (iii) a fused inference paradigm where the Copilot rectifies the Pilot’s logits for enhanced generation. We provide both theoretical and empirical analyses on our new learning framework. Experiments on 12 benchmarks spanning commonsense, arithmetic, and recommendation tasks demonstrate that Transformer Copilot consistently improves performance by up to 34.5%, while introducing marginal computational overhead to Pilot models and exhibiting strong scalability and transferability. Our code is released at https://github.com/jiaruzouu/TransformerCopilot. Jiaru Zou, Yikun Ban, Zihao Li 0006, Yunzhe Qi, Ruizhong Qiu, Ling Yang 0006, Jingrui He |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2025 | ReasonFlux-PRM: Trajectory-Aware PRMs for Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMsabstractProcess Reward Models (PRMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for supervising intermediate reasoning steps in large language models (LLMs). Previous PRMs are primarily trained on model final output responses and struggle to evaluate intermediate thinking trajectories robustly, especially in the emerging setting of trajectory–response outputs generated by frontier reasoning models like Deepseek-R1. In this work, we introduce ReasonFlux-PRM, a novel trajectory-aware PRM explicitly designed to evaluate the trajectory-response type of reasoning traces. ReasonFlux-PRM incorporates both step-level and trajectory-level supervision, enabling fine-grained reward assignment aligned with structured chain-of-thought data. We adapt ReasonFlux-PRM to support reward supervision under both offline and online settings, including (i) selecting high-quality model distillation data for downstream supervised fine-tuning of smaller models, (ii) providing dense process-level rewards for policy optimization during reinforcement learning, and (iii) enabling reward-guided Best-of-N test-time scaling. Empirical results on challenging downstream benchmarks such as AIME, MATH500, and GPQA-Diamond demonstrate that ReasonFlux-PRM-7B selects higher quality data than strong PRMs (e.g., Qwen2.5-Math-PRM-72B) and human-curated baselines. Furthermore, ReasonFlux-PRM-7B yields consistent performance improvements, achieving average gains of 12.1\% in supervised fine-tuning, 4.5\% in reinforcement learning, and 6.3\% in test-time scaling. We also release an efficient ReasonFlux-PRM-1.5B for resource-constrained applications and edge deployment. Our code and models are released at https://github.com/Gen-Verse/ReasonFlux. Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang 0006, Jingwen Gu, Jiahao Qiu, Jingrui He, Mengdi Wang 0001 |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2024 | CoCoST: Automatic Complex Code Generation with Online Searching and Correctness TestingabstractLarge Language Models have revolutionized code generation ability by converting natural language descriptions into executable code.However, generating complex code within realworld scenarios remains challenging due to intricate structures, subtle bugs, understanding of advanced data types, and lack of supplementary contents.To address these challenges, we introduce the CoCoST framework, which enhances complex code generation by online searching for more information with planned queries and correctness testing for code refinement.Moreover, CoCoST serializes the complex inputs and outputs to improve comprehension and generates test cases to ensure the adaptability for real-world applications.CoCoST is validated through rigorous experiments on the DS-1000 and ClassEval datasets.Experimental results show that CoCoST substantially improves the quality of complex code generation, highlighting its potential to enhance the practicality of LLMs in generating complex code. Jiaru Zou, Mengyu Zhou, Shi Han, Zejian Yuan, Dongmei Zhang 0001 |
EMNLP | 2 |
| 2024 | PageRank Bandits for Link PredictionabstractLink prediction is a critical problem in graph learning with broad applications such as recommender systems and knowledge graph completion. Numerous research efforts have been directed at solving this problem, including approaches based on similarity metrics and Graph Neural Networks (GNN). However, most existing solutions are still rooted in conventional supervised learning, which makes it challenging to adapt over time to changing customer interests and to address the inherent dilemma of exploitation versus exploration in link prediction.
To tackle these challenges, this paper reformulates link prediction as a sequential decision-making process, where each link prediction interaction occurs sequentially. We propose a novel fusion algorithm, PRB (PageRank Bandits), which is the first to combine contextual bandits with PageRank for collaborative exploitation and exploration. We also introduce a new reward formulation and provide a theoretical performance guarantee for PRB. Finally, we extensively evaluate PRB in both online and offline settings, comparing it with bandit-based and graph-based methods. The empirical success of PRB demonstrates the value of the proposed fusion approach. Our code is released at https://github.com/jiaruzouu/PRB. Yikun Ban, Jiaru Zou, Zihao Li 0006, Yunzhe Qi, Dongqi Fu, Jian Kang 0008, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2023 | Meta-Learning with Neural Bandit SchedulerabstractMeta-learning has been proven an effective learning paradigm for training machine learning models with good generalization ability. Apart from the common practice of uniformly sampling the meta-training tasks, existing methods working on task scheduling strategies are mainly based on pre-defined sampling protocols or the assumed task-model correlations, and greedily make scheduling decisions, which can lead to sub-optimal performance bottlenecks of the meta-model. In this paper, we propose a novel task scheduling framework under Contextual Bandits settings, named BASS, which directly optimizes the task scheduling strategy based on the status of the meta-model. By balancing the exploitation and exploration in meta-learning task scheduling, BASS can help tackle the challenge of limited knowledge about the task distribution during the early stage of meta-training, while simultaneously exploring potential benefits for forthcoming meta-training iterations through an adaptive exploration strategy. Theoretical analysis and extensive experiments are presented to show the effectiveness of our proposed framework. Yunzhe Qi, Yikun Ban, Tianxin Wei, Jiaru Zou, Huaxiu Yao, Jingrui He |
NeurIPS | 4 |