Simultaneous Preference and Metric Learning from Paired Comparisons. - Austin Xu; Mark A. Davenport (NeurIPS, 2020)

Delta Distancing: A Lifting Approach to Localizing Items from User Comparisons. - Andrew D. McRae; Austin Xu; Jihui Jin; Namrata Nadagouda; Nauman Ahad; Peimeng Guan; Santhosh Karnik; Mark A. Davenport (ICASSP, 2022)

HandsOff: Labeled Dataset Generation With No Additional Human Annotations. - Austin Xu; Mariya I. Vasileva; Achal Dave; Arjun Seshadri (CVPR, 2023)

Perceptual adjustment queries and an inverted measurement paradigm for low-rank metric learning. - Austin Xu; Andrew D. McRae; Jingyan Wang 001; Mark A. Davenport; Ashwin Pananjady (NeurIPS, 2023)

Active metric learning and classification using similarity queries. - Namrata Nadagouda; Austin Xu; Mark A. Davenport (UAI, 2023)

Learning the Eye of the Beholder: Statistical Modeling and Estimation for Personalized Color Perception. - Xuanzhou Chen; Austin Xu; Jingyan Wang 001; Ashwin Pananjady (Allerton, 2024)

Large language model augmented exercise retrieval for personalized language learning. - Austin Xu; Will Monroe; Klinton Bicknell (LAK, 2024)

SFR-RAG: Towards Contextually Faithful LLMs. - Xuan-Phi Nguyen; Shrey Pandit; Senthil Purushwalkam; Austin Xu; Hailin Chen; Yifei Ming; Zixuan Ke; Silvio Savarese; Caiming Xong; Shafiq Joty (CoRR, 2024)

Direct Judgement Preference Optimization. - Peifeng Wang; Austin Xu; Yilun Zhou; Caiming Xiong; Shafiq Joty (CoRR, 2024)

Learning with and without human feedback. - Austin Xu (2024)

Does Context Matter? ContextualJudgeBench for Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Contextual Settings. - Austin Xu; Srijan Bansal; Yifei Ming; Semih Yavuz; Shafiq Joty (ACL (1), 2025)

A Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning: Inference Scaling, Learning to Reason, and Agentic Systems. - Zixuan Ke; Fangkai Jiao; Yifei Ming; Xuan-Phi Nguyen; Austin Xu; Do Xuan Long; Minzhi Li; Chengwei Qin; Peifeng Wang; Silvio Savarese; Caiming Xiong; Shafiq Joty (Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2025)

Evaluating Judges as Evaluators: The JETTS Benchmark of LLM-as-Judges as Test-Time Scaling Evaluators. - Yilun Zhou; Austin Xu; Peifeng Wang; Caiming Xiong; Shafiq Joty (CoRR, 2025)

J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization. - Austin Xu; Yilun Zhou; Xuan-Phi Nguyen; Caiming Xiong; Shafiq Joty (CoRR, 2025)

MAS-ZERO: Designing Multi-Agent Systems with Zero Supervision. - Zixuan Ke; Austin Xu; Yifei Ming; Xuan-Phi Nguyen; Caiming Xiong; Shafiq Joty (CoRR, 2025)