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Haoyang Ruan
dblp:421/8433
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0000-6725-3211ORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 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 |
Language models and text generation · 50% Optimization for machine learning · 50% |
Topics — the 2 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 › alignment
preference alignment |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Textual Self-Attention Network: Test-Time Preference Optimization Through Textual Gradient-Based Attention · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
test-time optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Textual Self-Attention Network: Test-Time Preference Optimization Through Textual Gradient-Based Attention · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
textual self-attention · 1.0textual gradient · 1.0large language model · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Textual Self-Attention Network: Test-Time Preference Optimization Through Textual Gradient-Based AttentionabstractLarge Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities, but aligning their outputs with human preferences typically requires expensive supervised fine-tuning. Recent test-time methods leverage textual feedback to overcome this, but they often critique and revise a single candidate response, lacking a principled mechanism to systematically analyze, weigh, and synthesize the strengths of multiple promising candidates. Such a mechanism is crucial because different responses may excel in distinct aspects (e.g., clarity, factual accuracy, or tone), and combining their best elements may produce a far superior outcome. This paper proposes the Textual Self-Attention Network (TSAN), a new paradigm for test-time preference optimization that requires no parameter updates. TSAN emulates self-attention entirely in natural language to overcome this gap: it analyzes multiple candidates by formatting them into textual keys and values, weighs their relevance using an LLM-based attention module, and synthesizes their strengths into a new, preference-aligned response under the guidance of the learned textual attention. This entire process operates in a textual gradient space, enabling iterative and interpretable optimization. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that with just three test-time iterations on a base SFT model, TSAN outperforms supervised models like Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct and surpasses the current state-of-the-art test-time alignment method by effectively leveraging multiple candidate solutions. Shibing Mo, Haoyang Ruan, Kai Wu 0003, Jing Liu 0006 |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2026 | Bias-corrected multi-scale spatiotemporal networks for multivariate time series imputation
Shibing Mo, Haoyang Ruan, Kaixin Yuan, Xiangyi Teng, Jing Liu 0006 |
Neurocomputing | 2 |