Demo Data from EDBT 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Tengyue Xiao
dblp:422/6103
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
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 · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, 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 |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | W2S-AlignTree: Weak-to-Strong Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models via Monte Carlo Tree Search · AAAI 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › alignment
inference-time alignment |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | W2S-AlignTree: Weak-to-Strong Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models via Monte Carlo Tree Search · AAAI 2026 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › decoding
large language model decoding |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | W2S-AlignTree: Weak-to-Strong Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models via Monte Carlo Tree Search · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
weak-to-strong generalization · 1.0monte carlo tree search · 1.0entropy-aware exploration · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | W2S-AlignTree: Weak-to-Strong Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models via Monte Carlo Tree SearchabstractLarge Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, yet their outputs often suffer from misalignment with human preferences due to the inadequacy of weak supervision and a lack of fine-grained control. Training-time alignment methods like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) face prohibitive costs in expert supervision and inherent scalability limitations, offering limited dynamic control during inference. Consequently, there is an urgent need for scalable and adaptable alignment mechanisms. To address this, we propose W2S-AlignTree, a pioneering plug-and-play inference-time alignment framework that synergistically combines Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with the Weak-to-Strong Generalization paradigm for the first time. W2S-AlignTree formulates LLM alignment as an optimal heuristic search problem within a generative search tree. By leveraging weak model's real-time, step-level signals as alignment proxies and introducing an Entropy-Aware exploration mechanism, W2S-AlignTree enables fine-grained guidance during strong model's generation without modifying its parameters. The approach dynamically balances exploration and exploitation in high-dimensional generation search trees. Experiments across controlled sentiment generation, summarization, and instruction-following show that W2S-AlignTree consistently outperforms strong baselines. Notably, W2S-AlignTree raises the performance of Llama3-8B from 1.89 to 2.19, a relative improvement of 15.9% on the summarization task. Zhenyu Ding, Tengyue Xiao, Haoying Wang, Guojun Ma, Mingyang Wan, Caigui Jiang, Ning Ding 0006 |
AAAI | 3 |
| 2026 | DiffuSteer: Conditional generative steering of large language models in activation space
Haoying Wang, Zhenyu Ding, Tengyue Xiao, Yiming Liang, Caigui Jiang, Ning Ding 0006 |
Neurocomputing | 3 |