EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Ly Tran Ho Khanh
dblp:421/7942
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
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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 · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › model steering › language model steering
activation steering |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Test-time Diverse Reasoning by Riemannian Activation Steering · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
riemannian optimization · 1.0block coordinate descent · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Test-time Diverse Reasoning by Riemannian Activation SteeringabstractBest-of-N reasoning improves the accuracy of language models in solving mathematical tasks by sampling multiple candidate solutions and then selecting the best one based on some criteria. A critical bottleneck for this strategy is the output diversity limit, which occurs when the model generates similar outputs despite stochastic sampling, and hence recites the same error. To address this lack of variance in reasoning paths, we propose a novel unsupervised activation steering strategy that simultaneously optimizes the steering vectors for multiple reasoning trajectories at test time. At any synchronization anchor along the batch generation process, we find the steering vectors that maximize the total volume spanned by all possible intervened activation subsets. We demonstrate that these steering vectors can be determined by solving a Riemannian optimization problem over the product of spherical manifolds with a log-determinant objective function. We then use a Riemannian block-coordinate descent algorithm with a well-tuned learning rate to obtain a stationary point of the problem, and we apply these steering vectors until the generation process reaches the subsequent synchronization anchor. Empirical evaluations on popular mathematical benchmarks demonstrate that our test-time Riemannian activation steering strategy outperforms vanilla sampling techniques in terms of generative diversity and solution accuracy. Ly Tran Ho Khanh, Dongxuan Zhu, Man-Chung Yue |
AAAI | 1 |