Research

Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Suman Nath, Jianfeng Gao, Zhou Yu

ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Vineeth Vajipey, Hao Cheng, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, Zhou Yu

ConFit v2: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Hypothetical Resume Embedding and Runner-Up Hard-Negative Mining

Xiao Yu*, Ruize Xu*, Chengyuan Xue*, Jinzhong Zhang, Xu Ma, Zhou Yu

LIONs: An Empirically Optimized Approach to Align Language Models

Xiao Yu, Qingyang Wu, Yu Li, Zhou Yu

Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve through Interactive Demonstrations

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, Zhou Yu

ConFit: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning

Xiao Yu, Jinzhong Zhang, Zhou Yu

LocalRQA: From Generating Data to Locally Training, Testing, and Deploying Retrieval-Augmented QA Systems

Xiao Yu*, Yunan Lu*, Zhou Yu

Prompt-Based Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy Planning

Xiao Yu, Maximillian Chen, Zhou Yu

KRLS: Improving End-to-End Response Generation in Task Oriented Dialog with Reinforced Keywords Learning

Xiao Yu, Qingyang Wu, Kun Qian, Zhou Yu

Controllable Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Generation through Prompting

Maximillian Chen, Xiao Yu, Weiyan Shi, Urvi Awasthi, Zhou Yu

FastKASSIM: A Fast Tree Kernel-Based Syntactic Similarity Metric

Maximillian Chen*, Caitlyn Chen*, Xiao Yu*, Zhou Yu

Distributed MQTT Brokers at Network Edges: A Study on Message Dissemination

Luoyao Hao, Xiao Yu, Tingrui Zhang, Henning Schulzrinne