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Feng Xiong

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AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

AdaCuRL: Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Invalid Sample Mitigation and Historical Revisiting

Renda Li
Hailang Huang
Fei Wei
Feng Xiong
Yong Wang
Xiangxiang Chu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated considerable potential for enhancing reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods suffer from Gradient Starvation and Policy Degradation when training directly on samples with mixed difficulty. To mitigate this, prior approaches leverage Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data, but the construction of high-quality CoT annotations remains labor-intensive. Alternatively, curriculum learning strategies have been explored but frequently encounter challenges, such as difficulty mismatch, reliance on manual curriculum design, and catastrophic forgetting. To address these issues, we propose AdaCuRL, a Adaptive Curriculum Reinforcement Learning framework that integrates coarse-to-fine difficulty estimation with adaptive curriculum scheduling. This approach dynamically aligns data difficulty with model capability and incorporates a data revisitation mechanism to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. Furthermore, AdaCuRL employs adaptive reference and sparse KL strategies to prevent Policy Degradation. Extensive experiments across diverse reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that AdaCuRL consistently achieves significant performance improvements on both LLMs and MLLMs.

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AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

SEED: Spectral Entropy-Guided Evaluation of Spatial-Temporal Dependencies for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Feng Xiong
Zongxia Xie
Yanru Sun
Haoyu Wang
Jianhong Lin

Effective multivariate time series forecasting often benefits from accurately modeling complex inter-variable dependencies. However, existing attention- or graph-based methods face three key issues: (a) strong temporal self-dependencies are often disrupted by irrelevant variables; (b) softmax normalization ignores and reverses negative correlations; (c) variables struggle to perceive their temporal positions. To address these, we propose **SEED**, a Spectral Entropy-guided evaluation framework for spatial-temporal dependency modeling. SEED introduces a Dependency Evaluator, a key innovation that leverages spectral entropy to dynamically provide a preliminary evaluation of the spatial and temporal dependencies of each variable, enabling the model to adaptively balance Channel Independence (CI) and Channel Dependence (CD) strategies. To account for temporal regularities originating from the influence of other variables rather than intrinsic dynamics, we propose Spectral Entropy-based Fuser to further refine the evaluated dependency weights, effectively separating this part. Moreover, to preserve negative correlations, we introduce a Signed Graph Constructor that enables signed edge weights, overcoming the limitations of softmax. Finally, to help variables perceive their temporal positions and thereby construct more comprehensive spatial features, we introduce the Context Spatial Extractor, which leverages local contextual windows to extract spatial features. Extensive experiments on 12 real-world datasets from various application domains demonstrate that SEED achieves state-of-the-art performance, validating its effectiveness and generality.

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IJCAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper

G3PT: Unleash the Power of Autoregressive Modeling in 3D Generation via Cross-Scale Querying Transformer

Jinzhi Zhang
Feng Xiong
Guangyu Wang
Mu Xu

Autoregressive transformers have revolutionized generative models in language processing and shown substantial promise in image and video generation. However, these models face significant challenges when extended to 3D generation tasks due to their reliance on next-token prediction to learn token sequences, which is incompatible with the unordered nature of 3D data. Instead of imposing an artificial order on 3D data, in this paper, we introduce G3PT, a scalable, coarse-to-fine 3D native generative model with cross-scale vector quantization and cross-scale autoregressive modeling. The key is to map point-based 3D data into discrete tokens with different levels of detail, naturally establishing a sequential relationship across a variety of scales suitable for autoregressive modeling. Remarkably, our method connects tokens globally across different levels of detail without manually specified ordering. Benefiting from this approach, G3PT features a versatile 3D generation pipeline that effortlessly supports the generation of 3D shapes under diverse conditional modalities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that G3PT achieves superior generation quality and generalization ability compared to previous baselines. Most importantly, for the first time in 3D generation, scaling up G3PT reveals distinct power-law scaling behaviors.

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ICML Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Whoever Started the interference Should End It: Guiding Data-Free Model Merging via Task Vectors

Runxi Cheng
Feng Xiong
Yongxian Wei
Wanyun Zhu
Chun Yuan 0003

Model merging seeks to integrate task-specific expert models into a unified architecture while preserving multi-task generalization capabilities, yet parameter interference between constituent models frequently induces performance degradation. Although prior work has explored many merging strategies, resolving interference without additional data for retraining or test-time computation remains challenging. In this paper, we theoretically demonstrate that the task vectors of the linear layer constitute an approximate linear subspace for its corresponding input. Therefore, we can minimize interference under the guidance of task vectors. Based on this insight, we propose WUDI-Merging ( W hoever started the interference sho U ld en D I t), a simple yet effective model merging method that eliminates interference without any additional data or rescaling coefficients. Comprehensive empirical evaluations across vision and language benchmarks demonstrate our method’s superiority, achieving state-of-the-art performance in data-free model merging scenarios (average 10. 9% improvement versus baseline methods) while even outperforming mainstream test-time adaptation approaches by 3. 3%, and only very few computing resources are required. The source code and implementation details are available at https: //github. com/nathanielyvo/WUDI-Merging.

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IJCAI Conference 2022 Conference Paper

SCMT: Self-Correction Mean Teacher for Semi-supervised Object Detection

Feng Xiong
Jiayi Tian
Zhihui Hao
Yulin He
Xiaofeng Ren

Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD) aims to improve performance by leveraging a large amount of unlabeled data. Existing works usually adopt the teacher-student framework to enforce student to learn consistent predictions over the pseudo-labels generated by teacher. However, the performance of the student model is limited since the noise inherently exists in pseudo-labels. In this paper, we investigate the causes and effects of noisy pseudo-labels and propose a simple yet effective approach denoted as Self-Correction Mean Teacher(SCMT) to reduce the adverse effects. Specifically, we propose to dynamically re-weight the unsupervised loss of each student's proposal with additional supervision information from the teacher model, and assign smaller loss weights to possible noisy proposals. Extensive experiments on MS-COCO benchmark have shown the superiority of our proposed SCMT, which can significantly improve the supervised baseline by more than 11% mAP under all 1%, 5% and 10% COCO-standard settings, and surpasses state-of-the-art methods by about 1. 5% mAP. Even under the challenging COCO-additional setting, SCMT still improves the supervised baseline by 4. 9% mAP, and significantly outperforms previous methods by 1. 2% mAP, achieving a new state-of-the-art performance.

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