Selected Publications

• SAND: Boosting LLM Agents with Self-Taught Action Deliberation
  Yu Xia, Yiran Shen, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Ryan A. Rossi, Lina Yao, Julian McAuley.
  EMNLP 2025 [Paper]

• From Selection to Generation: A Survey of LLM-based Active Learning
  Yu Xia*, Subhojyoti Mukherjee*, Zhouhang Xie, Junda Wu, Xintong Li, Ryan Aponte, Hanjia Lyu, Joe Barrow, Hongjie Chen, Franck Dernoncourt, Branislav Kveton, Tong Yu, Ruiyi Zhang, Jiuxiang Gu, Nesreen K Ahmed, Yu Wang, Xiang Chen, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Sungchul Kim, Zhengmian Hu, Yue Zhao, Nedim Lipka, Seunghyun Yoon, Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang, Zichao Wang, Puneet Mathur, Soumyabrata Pal, Koyel Mukherjee, Zhehao Zhang, Namyong Park, Thien Huu Nguyen, Jiebo Luo, Ryan A. Rossi, Julian McAuley.
  ACL 2025 [Paper]

• Knowledge-Aware Query Expansion with Large Language Models for Textual and Relational Retrieval
  Yu Xia, Junda Wu, Sungchul Kim, Tong Yu, Ryan A. Rossi, Haoliang Wang, Julian McAuley.
  NAACL 2025 [Paper]

• Beyond Chain-of-Thought: A Survey of Chain-of-X Paradigms for LLMs
  Yu Xia, Rui Wang, Xu Liu, Mingyan Li, Tong Yu, Xiang Chen, Julian McAuley, Shuai Li.
  COLING 2025 [Paper]

• The Closeness of In-Context Learning and Weight Shifting for Softmax Regression
  (Alphabetical Order) Shuai Li, Zhao Song, Yu Xia, Tong Yu, Tianyi Zhou.
  NeurIPS 2024 [Paper]

• Aligning as Debiasing: Causality-Aware Alignment via Reinforcement Learning with Interventional Feedback
  Yu Xia, Tong Yu, Zhankui He, Handong Zhao, Julian McAuley, Shuai Li.
  NAACL 2024 [Paper]

• Hallucination Diversity-Aware Active Learning for Text Summarization
  Yu Xia, Xu Liu, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Ryan A. Rossi, Anup Rao, Tung Mai, Shuai Li.
  NAACL 2024 [Paper]

• Which LLM to Play? Convergence-Aware Online Model Selection with Time-Increasing Bandits
  Yu Xia*, Fang Kong*, Tong Yu, Liya Guo, Ryan A. Rossi, Sungchul Kim, Shuai Li.
  WWW 2024 Oral [Paper]

• Towards Joint Utilization of Absolute and Relative Bandit Feedback for Conversational Recommendation
  Yu Xia*, Zhihui Xie*, Tong Yu, Canzhe Zhao, Shuai Li.
  UMUAI 2024 Special Issue on CRS [Paper]

• User-Regulation Deconfounded Conversational Recommender System with Bandit Feedback
  Yu Xia, Junda Wu, Tong Yu, Sungchul Kim, Ryan A. Rossi, Shuai Li.
  KDD 2023 [Paper]