Deqian Kong

PhD student, University of California, Los Angeles

Joined

September 2021

Names

Deqian Kong (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 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Song-Chun Zhu

Present

PhD Advisor

Ying Nian Wu

Present

Expertise

Generative Models

Present

AI for Science

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
Reasoning Curriculum: Bootstrapping Broad LLM Reasoning from Math
Bo Pang, Deqian Kong, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Yingbo Zhou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
FFT-Accelerated Auxiliary Variable MCMC for Fermionic Lattice Models: A Determinant-Free Approach with $O(N \log N)$ Complexity
Deqian Kong, Shi Feng, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Generative Actor Critic
Aoyang Qin, Wei Wang, Deqian Kong, Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu, Sirui Xie
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
``Noisier'’ Noise Contrastive Estimation is (Almost) Maximum Likelihood
Peiyu Yu, Dinghuai Zhang, Hengzhi He, Xiaojian Ma, Sirui Xie, RUIYAO MIAO, Yifan Lu, Yasi Zhang, Deqian Kong, Ruiqi Gao, Jianwen Xie, Guang Cheng, Ying Nian Wu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Generative Actor-Critic
Aoyang Qin, Wei Wang, Deqian Kong, Ying Nian Wu, Song-Chun Zhu, Sirui Xie
- SPIGM @ NeurIPS
- 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 Adaptive Planner for Dynamic Manipulation
Donghun Noh, Deqian Kong, Minglu Zhao, Andrew Lizarraga, Jianwen Xie, Ying Nian Wu, Dennis Hong
- CoRL 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
Latent Space Energy-based Neural ODEs
Sheng Cheng, Deqian Kong, Jianwen Xie, Kookjin Lee, Ying Nian Wu, Yezhou Yang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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