I work on theories and algorithms of machine learning, with special interests on the following topics:
• active learning and machine teaching: understanding how prior information can help reduce the sample complexity.
• neurosymbolic generative learning: bridging symbolic (logical, causal) inference and neural network learning, with their applications in visual generation tasks.
• decision-making learning: imitation learning and model-based reinforcement learning.
• model reuse: reusing pre-trained models under decision-making and visual generation tasks.
Research Papers
• Jingming Liu, Yumeng Li, Boyuan Xiao, Yichang Jian, Ziang Qin, Tianjia Shao, Yao-Xiang Ding, Kun Zhou, "Enhancing Visual Reasoning with Autonomous Imagination in Multimodal Large Language Models", arxiv preprint 2411.18142. Project Page.
• Yuting Tang, Xin-Qiang Cai, Yao-Xiang Ding, Qiyu Wu, Guoqing Liu, Masashi Sugiyama, "Reinforcement Learning from Bagged Reward: A Transformer-based Approach for Instance-Level Reward Redistribution", arxiv preprint 2402.03771.
• Yifei Peng, Yu Jin, Zhexu Luo, Yao-Xiang Ding, Wang-Zhou Dai, Zhong Ren, Kun Zhou, "Generating by Understanding: Neural Visual Generation with Logical Symbol Groundings", arxiv preprint 2310.17451.
• Lanjihong Ma, Yao-Xiang Ding, Peng Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zhou, "Learning Objective Adaptation by Correlation-based Model Reuse", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (accepted, in publication), 2025.
• Lanjihong Ma, Yao-Xiang Ding, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, "Achieving Nearly-Optimal Regret and Sample Complexity in Dueling Bandits with Applications in Online Recommendations", KDD (research track paper), 2025.
• Yu Jin, Jingming Liu, Zhexu Luo, Yifei Peng, Ziang Qin, Yao-Xiang Ding, Wang-Zhou Dai, Kun Zhou, "Pre-Training Meta-Rule Selection Policy for Visual Generative Abductive Learning", (conference track long paper), International Joint Conference on Learning and Reasoning (IJCLR), 2024.
• Yumeng Li, Bohong Chen, Zhong Ren, Yao-Xiang Ding, Libin Liu, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou, "CPoser: An Optimization-after-Parsing Approach for Text-to-Pose
Generation Using Large Language Models", ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (SIGGRAPH Asia journal track paper), 2024.
• Bohong Chen, Yumeng Li, Yao-Xiang Ding, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou, "Enabling Synergistic Full-Body Control in Prompt-Based Co-Speech Motion Generation", ACM Multimedia, 2024.
• Yao-Xiang Ding, Xi-Zhu Wu, Kun Zhou, Zhi-Hua Zhou, "Pre-Trained Model Reusability Evaluation for Small-Data Transfer Learning", NeurIPS, 2022.
• Yu-Cheng He, Yao-Xiang Ding, Zhi-Hua Zhou, "Mechanism Design for Requester-Platform Strategies Under the Three-Party Crowdsourcing Market", Journal of Computer Research And Development (in Chinese, CCFAI'21 best paper award), 2021.
• Xin-Qiang Cai, Yao-Xiang Ding, Yuan Jiang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, "Imitation Learning from Pixel-Level Demonstrations by HashReward", AAMAS (long paper), 2021.
• Introduction to Machine Learning (co-teach with Prof. Yingchun Yang, Dr. Qian Zheng and Dr. Chaochao Chen), Graduate, Spring 2023, Zhejiang University. Slides of Lecture 7Slides of Lecture 8
• Yifei Peng, PhD student of Zhejiang University, 2022-.
• Zijie Zha, PhD student of Zhejiang University, 2024-.
• Boyuan Xiao, PhD student of Zhejiang University, 2024-.
• Yu Jin, Master student of Zhejiang University, 2022-.
• Ziang Qin, Master student of Zhejiang University, 2023-.
• Jingming Liu, Master student of Zhejiang University, 2023-.
• Junhua Shen, Master student of Zhejiang University, 2024-.
• Enbo Xia, Master student of Zhejiang University, 2024-.
• Yichang Jian, Undergraduate student of Zhejiang University, 2022-.
• Libin Sun, Undergraduate student of Zhejiang University, 2023-.
• Zhexu Luo, Undergraduate student of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 2022-2024 (Now: master student of University of Pennsylvania).
Academic Services
I am a regular program committee member of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI and IJCAI. I also serve as the reviewer/meta-reviewer for conferences like UAI, AISTATS, CVPR, ECML-PKDD, ECAI, CIKM, SDM, ICDM, ACML and PAKDD, as well as journals like IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TKDD, MLJ and KAIS. I served as the publicity co-chair of SDM'23.
Latest update: 2024.11.28.