Tianbao Yang

Full Professor, Texas A&M University - College Station

4 papers at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 2

1 paper

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

DisCO: Reinforcing Large Reasoning Models with Discriminative Constrained Optimization

#3700 · Gang Li, Ming Lin, Tomer Galanti, Zhengzhong Tu, Tianbao Yang

We proposed a framework for reinforcing large reasoning models with discriminative constrained optimization , grounded in the principle that increasing the scores of positive answers while decreasing those of negative ones.

Poster Session 3

1 paper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Stochastic Momentum Methods for Non-smooth Non-Convex Finite-Sum Coupled Compositional Optimization

#702 · Xingyu Chen, Bokun Wang, Ming Yang, Qihang Lin, Tianbao Yang

Poster Session 4

1 paper

Thursday, December 4, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Advancing Interpretability of CLIP Representations with Concept Surrogate Model

#1001 · Nhat Hoang-Xuan, Xiyuan Wei, Wanli Xing, Tianbao Yang, My T. Thai

Poster Session 6

1 paper

Friday, December 5, 2025 · 4:30 PM → 7:30 PM

Exhibit Hall C,D,E

Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning is Approximately Supervised Contrastive Learning

#2607 · Achleshwar Luthra, Tianbao Yang, Tomer Galanti

A theoretical bound showing that SSL approximates supervised contrastive learning as a function of #classes in the training dataset. Studied the connection between the representation geometry and their downstream transferability.