Publications

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2026

  1. Unifying Deep Predicate Invention with Pre-trained Foundation Models
    Qianwei Wang, Bowen Li, Zhanpeng Luo, Yifan Xu, Alexander Gray, Tom Silver, Sebastian Scherer, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In Preprint, 2026
  2. Evolving Contextual Safety in Multi-Modal Large Language Models via Inference-Time Self- Reflective Memory
    Ce Zhang, Jinxi He, Junyi He, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    CVPR
  3. Jailbreaking Frontier Foundation Models Through Intention Deception
    Xinhe Wang, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings, 2026
    CVPR Findings
  4. pySpatial: Generating 3D Visual Programs for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning
    Zhanpeng Luo, Ce Zhang, Silong Yong, Cunxi Dai, Qianwei Wang, Haoxi Ran, Guanya Shi, Katia Sycara, and  Yaqi Xie
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    ICLR

2025

  1. Position: Human Don’t need to Know the Answer to Help: Intuition Steers Disagreement in Multi-Agent LLMs
    Yaqi Xie, and Yujia Zheng
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) ResponsibleFM Workshop, 2025
    NeurIPS Workshop
  2. Thought Communication in Multiagent Collaboration
    Yujia Zheng, Zhuokai Zhao, Zijian Li, Yaqi Xie, Mingze Gao, Lizhu Zhang, and Kun Zhang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
    NeurIPSSpotlight (3%)
  3. Adaptively Coordinating with Novel Partners via Learned Latent Strategies
    Benjamin Li, Shuyang Shi, Lucia Romero, Huao Li, Yaqi Xie, Woojun Kim, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Charles Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, and Simon Stepputtis
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
    NeurIPSBest Paper at RSS GenAI-HRI
  4. ONLY: One-Layer Intervention Sufficiently Mitigates Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
    Zifu Wan, Ce Zhang, Silong Yong, Martin Q Ma, Simon Stepputtis, Louis-Philippe Morency, Deva Ramanan, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
    ICCV
  5. Spectral-Aware Global Fusion for RGB-Thermal Semantic Segmentation
    Ce Zhang, Zifu Wan, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2025
    ICIP
  6. InstructPart: Task-Oriented Part Segmentation with Instruction Reasoning
    Zifu Wan, Yaqi Xie, Ce Zhang, Zhiqiu Lin, Zihan Wang, Simon Stepputtis, Deva Ramanan, and Katia Sycara
    In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
    ACL
  7. Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
    Ce Zhang, Zifu Wan, Zhehan Kan, Martin Q. Ma, Simon Stepputtis, Deva Ramanan, Russ Salakhutdinov, Louis-Philippe Morency, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
    ICLR
  8. OMG: Opacity Matters in Material Modeling with Gaussian Splatting
    Silong Yong, Venkata Nagarjun Pudureddiyur Manivannan, Bernhard Kerbl, Zifu Wan, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
    ICLR
  9. AISTATS
    Multi-level Advantage Credit Assignment for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Xutong Zhao, and Yaqi Xie
    In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
  10. Sigma: Siamese Mamba Network for Multi-Modal Semantic Segmentation
    Zifu Wan, Pingping Zhang, Yuhao Wang, Silong Yong, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
    WACV
  11. Enhancing Vision-Language Few-Shot Adaptation with Negative Learning
    Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
    WACV

2024

  1. LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation
    Bowen Li, Zhaoyu Li, Qiwei Du, Jinqi Luo, Wenshan Wang, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Chen Wang, Katia Sycara, Pradeep Ravikumar, Alexander Gray, Xujie Si, and Sebastian Scherer
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
    NeurIPS
  2. Dual Prototype Evolving for Test-Time Generalization of Vision-Language Models
    Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
    NeurIPS
  3. GL-NeRF: Gauss-Laguerre Quadrature Enables Training-Free NeRF Acceleration
    Silong Yong, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, and Katia Sycara
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
    NeurIPS
  4. NeurIPS Workshop
    HiMemFormer: Hierarchical Memory-Aware Transformer for Multi-Agent Action Anticipation
    Zirui Wang, Xinran Zhao, Simon Stepputtis, Woojun Kim, Tongshuang Wu, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2024
  5. Let Me Help You! Neuro-Symbolic Short-Context Action Anticipation
    Sarthak Bhagat, Samuel Li, Joseph Campbell, Yaqi Xie, Katia Sycara, and Simon Stepputtis
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024
    RA-L, ICRABest Paper at ICRA Nonverbal Cues
  6. ShapeGrasp: Zero-Shot Task-Oriented Grasping with Large Language Models through Geometric Decomposition
    Samuel Li, Sarthak Bhagat, Joseph Campbell, Yaqi Xie, Woojun Kim, Katia Sycara, and Simon Stepputtis
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
    IROS
  7. HiKER-SGG: Hierarchical Knowledge Enhanced Robust Scene Graph Generation
    Ce Zhang, Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Katia Sycara, and Yaqi Xie
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
    CVPR
  8. Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis
    Yafei Hu, Quanting Xie, Vidhi Jain, Jonathan Francis, Jay Patrikar, Nikhil Keetha, Seungchan Kim, Yaqi Xie, Tianyi Zhang, Hao-Shu Fang, Shibo Zhao, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Dong-Ki Kim, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Katia Sycara, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Dhruv Batra, Xiaolong Wang, Sebastian Scherer, Chen Wang, Zsolt Kira, Fei Xia, and Yonatan Bisk
    In Preprint, 2024

2023

  1. Long-Horizon Dialogue Understanding for Role Identification in the Game of Avalon with Large Language Models
    Simon Stepputtis, Joseph Campbell, Yaqi Xie, Zhengyang Qi, Wenxin Zhang, Ruiyi Wang, Sanketh Rangreji, Charles Lewis, and Katia Sycara
    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Findings, 2023
    EMNLP
  2. Translating Natural Language to Planning Goals with Large-Language Models
    Yaqi Xie, Chen Yu, Tongyao Zhu, Jinbin Bai, Ze Gong, and Harold Soh
    In Preprint, 2023

2021

  1. Embedding Symbolic Temporal Knowledge into Deep Sequential Models
    Yaqi Xie, Fan Zhou, and Harold Soh
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
    ICRA

2019

  1. Embedding Symbolic Knowledge into Deep Networks
    Yaqi Xie, Ziwei Xu, Mohan S Kankanhalli, Kuldeep S Meel, and Harold Soh
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019
    NeurIPS
  2. Multi-task trust transfer for human–robot interaction
    Harold Soh, Yaqi Xie, Min Chen, and David Hsu
    The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2019
    IJRR
  3. Robot Capability and Intention in Trust-Based Decisions Across Tasks
    Yaqi Xie, Indu P Bodala, Desmond C. Ong, David Hsu, and Harold Soh
    In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019
    HRI