Hang Yuan
Author directory2026
FrameSkip: Learning from Fewer but More Informative Frames in VLA Training
Bin Yu | Shijie Lian | Xiaopeng Lin | Zhaolong Shen | Yuliang Wei | Changti Wu | Hang Yuan | Haishan Liu | Bailing Wang | Cong Huang | Kai Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Bin Yu | Shijie Lian | Xiaopeng Lin | Zhaolong Shen | Yuliang Wei | Changti Wu | Hang Yuan | Haishan Liu | Bailing Wang | Cong Huang | Kai Chen
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are commonly trained from dense robot demonstration trajectories, often collected through teleoperation, by sampling every recorded frame as if it provided equally useful supervision. We argue that this convention creates a temporal supervision imbalance: long low-change segments dominate the training stream, while manipulation-critical transitions such as alignment, contact, grasping, and release appear only sparsely. We introduce FrameSkip, a data-layer frame selection framework that scores trajectory frames using action variation, visual-action coherence, task-progress priors, and gripper-transition preservation, then remaps training samples toward high-importance frames under a target retention ratio. Because FrameSkip operates only in the dataloader, it leaves the VLA architecture, action head, training objective, and inference procedure unchanged. Across RoboCasa-GR1, SimplerEnv, and LIBERO, FrameSkip improves the success-retention trade-off over full-frame training and simpler frame selection variants, achieving a macro-average success rate of 76.15% across the three benchmarks compared with 66.50% for full-frame training while using a compressed trajectory view that retains 20% of unique frames in the main setting.
IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation
Shijie Lian | Bin Yu | Xiaopeng Lin | Zhaolong Shen | Laurence Tianruo Yang | Yurun Jin | Haishan Liu | Changti Wu | Hang Yuan | Cong Huang | Kai Chen
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Shijie Lian | Bin Yu | Xiaopeng Lin | Zhaolong Shen | Laurence Tianruo Yang | Yurun Jin | Haishan Liu | Changti Wu | Hang Yuan | Cong Huang | Kai Chen
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Robot imitation data are often multimodal: similar visual-language observations may be followed by different action chunks because human demonstrators act with different short-horizon intents, task phases, or recent context. Existing frame-conditioned VLA policies infer each chunk from the current observation and instruction alone, so under partial observability they may resample different intents across adjacent replanning steps, leading to inter-chunk conflict and unstable execution. We introduce IntentVLA, a history-conditioned VLA framework that encodes recent visual observations into a compact short-horizon intent representation and uses it to condition chunk generation. We further introduce AliasBench, a 12-task ambiguity-aware benchmark on RoboTwin2 with matched training data and evaluation environments that isolate short-horizon observation aliasing. Across AliasBench, SimplerEnv, LIBERO, and RoboCasa, IntentVLA improves rollout stability and outperforms strong VLA baselines.
2025
Alpha-GPT: Human-AI Interactive Alpha Mining for Quantitative Investment
Saizhuo Wang | Hang Yuan | Leon Zhou | Lionel Ni | Heung-Yeung Shum | Jian Guo
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Saizhuo Wang | Hang Yuan | Leon Zhou | Lionel Ni | Heung-Yeung Shum | Jian Guo
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
One of the most important tasks in quantitative investment research is mining new alphas (effective trading signals or factors). Traditional alpha mining methods, either hand-crafted factor synthesis or algorithmic factor mining (e.g., search with genetic programming), have inherent limitations, especially in implementing the ideas of quant researchers. In this work, we propose a new alpha mining paradigm by introducing human-AI interaction, and a novel prompt engineering algorithmic framework to implement this paradigm by leveraging the power of large language models. Moreover, we develop Alpha-GPT, a new interactive alpha mining system framework that provides a heuristic way to “understand” the ideas of quant researchers and outputs creative, insightful, and effective alphas. We demonstrate the effectiveness and advantage of Alpha-GPT via a number of alpha mining experiments. In particular, we evaluated Alpha-GPT’s performance in the WorldQuant International Quant Championship, where it demonstrated results comparable to those of top-performing human participants, ranking among top-10 over 41000 teams worldwide. These findings suggest Alpha-GPT’s significant potential in generating highly effective alphas that may surpass human capabilities in quantitative investment strategies.
2018
YNU-HPCC at Semeval-2018 Task 11: Using an Attention-based CNN-LSTM for Machine Comprehension using Commonsense Knowledge
Hang Yuan | Jin Wang | Xuejie Zhang
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Hang Yuan | Jin Wang | Xuejie Zhang
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
This shared task is a typical question answering task. Compared with the normal question and answer system, it needs to give the answer to the question based on the text provided. The essence of the problem is actually reading comprehension. Typically, there are several questions for each text that correspond to it. And for each question, there are two candidate answers (and only one of them is correct). To solve this problem, the usual approach is to use convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) or their improved models (such as long short-term memory (LSTM)). In this paper, an attention-based CNN-LSTM model is proposed for this task. By adding an attention mechanism and combining the two models, this experimental result has been significantly improved.
2017
YNU-HPCC at EmoInt-2017: Using a CNN-LSTM Model for Sentiment Intensity Prediction
You Zhang | Hang Yuan | Jin Wang | Xuejie Zhang
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
You Zhang | Hang Yuan | Jin Wang | Xuejie Zhang
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
In this paper, we present a system that uses a convolutional neural network with long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM) model to complete the task. The CNN-LSTM model has two combined parts: CNN extracts local n-gram features within tweets and LSTM composes the features to capture long-distance dependency across tweets. Additionally, we used other three models (CNN, LSTM, BiLSTM) as baseline algorithms. Our introduced model showed good performance in the experimental results.
YNU-HPCC at IJCNLP-2017 Task 5: Multi-choice Question Answering in Exams Using an Attention-based LSTM Model
Hang Yuan | You Zhang | Jin Wang | Xuejie Zhang
Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks
Hang Yuan | You Zhang | Jin Wang | Xuejie Zhang
Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks
A shared task is a typical question answering task that aims to test how accurately the participants can answer the questions in exams. Typically, for each question, there are four candidate answers, and only one of the answers is correct. The existing methods for such a task usually implement a recurrent neural network (RNN) or long short-term memory (LSTM). However, both RNN and LSTM are biased models in which the words in the tail of a sentence are more dominant than the words in the header. In this paper, we propose the use of an attention-based LSTM (AT-LSTM) model for these tasks. By adding an attention mechanism to the standard LSTM, this model can more easily capture long contextual information.