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Tengyue Xiao

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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
alignment
1.012026
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
1.012026
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
1.012026
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 W2S-AlignTree: Weak-to-Strong Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models via Monte Carlo Tree Search
abstract
Large 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
AAAI3
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
Neurocomputing3