Reinforced Language Modeling for End-to-End Task Oriented Dialog. - Xiao Yu 011; Qingyang Wu; Kun Qian 016; Zhou Yu 005 (CoRR, 2022)

Controllable Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Generation through Prompting. - Maximillian Chen; Xiao Yu 011; Weiyan Shi; Urvi Awasthi; Zhou Yu 005 (ACL (2), 2023)

FastKASSIM: A Fast Tree Kernel-Based Syntactic Similarity Metric. - Maximillian Chen; Caitlyn Chen; Xiao Yu 011; Zhou Yu 005 (EACL, 2023)

Prompt-Based Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Goal-oriented Dialogue Policy Planning. - Xiao Yu 011; Maximillian Chen; Zhou Yu 005 (EMNLP, 2023)

KRLS: Improving End-to-End Response Generation in Task Oriented Dialog with Reinforced Keywords Learning. - Xiao Yu 011; Qingyang Wu; Kun Qian 016; Zhou Yu 005 (EMNLP, 2023)

LIONs: An Empirically Optimized Approach to Align Language Models. - Xiao Yu 011; Qingyang Wu; Yu Li 013; Zhou Yu 005 (EMNLP, 2024)

Teaching Language Models to Self-Improve through Interactive Demonstrations. - Xiao Yu 011; Baolin Peng; Michel Galley; Jianfeng Gao 001; Zhou Yu 005 (NAACL-HLT, 2024)

ConFit: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Data Augmentation and Contrastive Learning. - Xiao Yu 011; Jinzhong Zhang 002; Zhou Yu 005 (RecSys, 2024)

ConFit v2: Improving Resume-Job Matching using Hypothetical Resume Embedding and Runner-Up Hard-Negative Mining. - Xiao Yu 011; Ruize Xu; Chengyuan Xue; Jinzhong Zhang 002; Xu Ma; Zhou Yu 005 (ACL (Findings), 2025)

ExACT: Teaching AI Agents to Explore with Reflective-MCTS and Exploratory Learning. - Xiao Yu 011; Baolin Peng; Vineeth Vajipey; Hao Cheng 002; Michel Galley; Jianfeng Gao 001; Zhou Yu 005 (ICLR, 2025)

Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents. - Xiao Yu 011; Baolin Peng; Ruize Xu; Michel Galley; Hao Cheng 002; Suman Nath; Jianfeng Gao 001; Zhou Yu 005 (CoRR, 2025)