Dehong Xu

Joined

September 2022

Names

Dehong Xu (Preferred)

Emails

****@ucla.edu (Confirmed)

****@g.ucla.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)

2019 – 2025

Intern

Amazon (amazon.com)

2023 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ying Nian Wu

Present

Expertise

Natural language processing

LLMs

Present

Machine learning

Generative models

Present

Representational models in neuroscience

Grid cells

Present

Publications

Inference-Time Rethinking with Latent Thought Vectors for Math Reasoning
Deqian Kong, Minglu Zhao, Aoyang Qin, Bo Pang, Chenxin Tao, David Hartmann, Edouardo Honig, Dehong Xu, Amit H. Kumar, Matthew Sarte, Chuan Li, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- LIT Workshop @ ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-Modal Multi-Task Unified Embedding Model (M3T-UEM): A Task-Adaptive Representation Learning Framework
Rohan Sharma, Changyou Chen, Feng-Ju Chang, Seongjun Yun, Xiaohu Xie, Rui Meng, Dehong Xu, Alejandro Mottini, Qingjun Cui
- ICCV
- Readers: Everyone
Place Cells as Multi-Scale Position Embeddings: Random Walk Transition Kernels for Path Planning
Minglu Zhao, Dehong Xu, Deqian Kong, Wenhao Zhang, Ying Nian Wu
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Thought Models with Variational Bayes Inference-Time Computation
Deqian Kong, Minglu Zhao, Dehong Xu, Bo Pang, Shu Wang, Edouardo Honig, Zhangzhang Si, Chuan Li, Jianwen Xie, Sirui Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
On Conformal Isometry of Grid Cells: Learning Distance-Preserving Position Embedding
Dehong Xu, Ruiqi Gao, Wenhao Zhang, Xue-Xin Wei, Ying Nian Wu
- ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
A minimalistic representation model for head direction system
Minglu Zhao, Dehong Xu, Deqian Kong, Wenhao Zhang, Ying Nian Wu
- NeurReps 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Plan Transformer for Trajectory Abstraction: Planning as Latent Space Inference
Deqian Kong, Dehong Xu, Minglu Zhao, Bo Pang, Jianwen Xie, Andrew Lizarraga, Yuhao Huang, Sirui Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Aligning Large Language Models via Fine-grained Supervision
Dehong Xu, Liang Qiu, Minseok Kim, Faisal Ladhak, Jaeyoung Do
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Latent Plan Transformer: Planning as Latent Variable Inference
Deqian Kong, Dehong Xu, Minglu Zhao, Bo Pang, Jianwen Xie, Andrew Lizarraga, Yuhao Huang, Sirui Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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