Exploiting User Preferences for Multiscenarios in Query-Less Search. - Yuyu Yin; Nan Zhang; Zulong Chen; Mingxiao Li 004; Yu Li 015; Honghao Gao; Lu He (IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst., 2022)

How to Leverage Demonstration Data in Alignment for Large Language Model? A Self-Imitation Learning Perspective. - Teng Xiao; Mingxiao Li 004; Yige Yuan; Huaisheng Zhu; Chao Cui; Vasant G. Honavar (EMNLP, 2024)

Cal-DPO: Calibrated Direct Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment. - Teng Xiao; Yige Yuan; Huaisheng Zhu; Mingxiao Li 004; Vasant G. Honavar (NeurIPS, 2024)

SePPO: Semi-Policy Preference Optimization for Diffusion Alignment. - Daoan Zhang; Guangchen Lan; Dong-Jun Han; Wenlin Yao; Xiaoman Pan; Hongming Zhang 009; Mingxiao Li 004; Pengcheng Chen; Dong Yu 001; Christopher Brinton 001; Jiebo Luo 001 (CoRR, 2024)

Advancing General Multimodal Capability of Vision-language Models with Pyramid-descent Visual Position Encoding. - Zhanpeng Chen; Mingxiao Li 004; Ziyang Chen; Nan Du; Xiaolong Li; Yuexian Zou (ACL (Findings), 2025)

SimPER: A Minimalist Approach to Preference Alignment without Hyperparameters. - Teng Xiao; Yige Yuan; Zhengyu Chen 001; Mingxiao Li 004; Shangsong Liang; Zhaochun Ren; Vasant G. Honavar (ICLR, 2025)

On a Connection Between Imitation Learning and RLHF. - Teng Xiao; Yige Yuan; Mingxiao Li 004; Zhengyu Chen 001; Vasant G. Honavar (ICLR, 2025)

From Visuals to Vocabulary: Establishing Equivalence Between Image and Text Token Through Autoregressive Pre-training in MLLMs. - Mingxiao Li 004; Fang Qu; Zhanpeng Chen; Na Su; Zhizhou Zhong; Ziyang Chen; Nan Du; Xiaolong Li (CoRR, 2025)

VISTA: Enhancing Vision-Text Alignment in MLLMs via Cross-Modal Mutual Information Maximization. - Mingxiao Li 004; Na Su; Fang Qu; Zhizhou Zhong; Ziyang Chen; Yuan Li; Zhaopeng Tu; Xiaolong Li (CoRR, 2025)