Publications

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Selected Publications

• (COLM 2026) Rethinking Reward Supervision: Rubric-Conditioned Self-Distillation
  Siyi Gu, Jialin Chen, Sophia Zhou, Arman Cohan, Rex Ying
  [Paper] [Code]
• (arXiv 2026) Benchmarking AI Agents for Addressing Scientific Challenges Across Scales
  Tianyu Liu, Allen Xin Wang, Antonia Panescu, Lisa Xinyi Chen, Wenxin Long, Xinyu Wei, Yueqian Jing, Ziyao Zeng, Jihang Chen, Sihan Jiang, Ziqing Wang, Siyi Gu, et al.
  [Paper] [Code]
• (arXiv 2026) Reasoning through Verifiable Forecast Actions: Consistency-Grounded RL for Financial LLMs
  Jialin Chen, Aosong Feng, Harshit Verma, Siyi Gu, Haiwen Wang, Ali Maatouk, Yixuan He, Yifeng Gao, Leandros Tassiulas, Rex Ying
  [Paper] [Code]
• (CVPR 2025) LayoutVLM: Differentiable Optimization of 3D Layout via Vision-Language Models
  Fan-Yun Sun*, Weiyu Liu*, Siyi Gu, Dylan Lim, Goutam Bhat, Federico Tombari, Manling Li, Nick Haber, Jiajun Wu
  [Paper] [Code]
• (NeurIPS 2024) Aligning target-aware molecule diffusion models with exact energy optimization
  Siyi Gu*, Minkai Xu*, Alexander Powers, Weili Nie, Tomas Geffner, Karsten Kreis, Jure Leskovec, Arash Vahdat, Stefano Ermon
  [Paper] [Code]
• (SIGKDD 2024) DUE: Dynamic uncertainty-aware explanation supervision via 3d imputation
  Qilong Zhao, Yifei Zhang, Mengdan Zhu, Siyi Gu, Yuyang Gao, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
  [Paper] [Code]
• (IJCAI 2024) Visual Attention-Prompted Prediction and Learning
  Yifei Zhang, Siyi Gu, Bo Pan, Guangji Bai, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
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• (SIGKDD 2023) ESSA: Explanation iterative supervision via saliency-guided data augmentation
  Siyi Gu*, Yifei Zhang*, Yuyang Gao, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
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• (Arxiv) XAI Benchmark for visual explanation
  Yifei Zhang, Siyi Gu, James Song, Bo Pan, Guangji Bai, Liang Zhao
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• (ACM Computing Surveys) Going beyond xai: A systematic survey for explanation-guided learning
  Yuyang Gao, Siyi Gu, Junji Jiang, Sungsoo Ray Hong, Dazhou Yu, Liang Zhao
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• (SIGKDD 2022) RES: A robust framework for guiding visual explanation
  Yuyang Gao, Tong Steven Sun, Guangji Bai, Siyi Gu, Sungsoo Ray Hong, Zhao Liang
  [Paper]
• (ICCV 2023) MAGI: Multi-annotated explanation-guided learning
  Yifei Zhang, Siyi Gu, Yuyang Gao, Bo Pan, Xiaofeng Yang, Liang Zhao
  [Paper]
• (CIN 2024) Evaluating Natural Language Processing Packages for Predicting Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries From Clinical Notes
  Siyi Gu, Eric W Lee, Wenhui Zhang, Roy L Simpson, Vicki Stover Hertzberg, Joyce C Ho
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