Xiang Kong

Researcher, AIML, Apple

Joined

December 2019

Names

Xiang Kong (Preferred)

Emails

****@andrew.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@cs.cmu.edu (Confirmed)

****@apple.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

AIML, Apple (apple.com)

2022 – Present

PhD student

Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

2017 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Eduard Hovy

2017 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
Vijay Viswanathan, Yanchao Sun, Xiang Kong, Meng Cao, Graham Neubig, Tongshuang Wu
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Memory retaining finetuning via distillation
Zitong Yang, Aonan Zhang, Sam Wiseman, Xiang Kong, Ke Ye, Dong Yin
- FITML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Memory retaining finetuning via distillation
Zitong Yang, Aonan Zhang, Sam Wiseman, Xiang Kong, Ke Ye, Dong Yin
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Step-by-Step Reasoning for Math Problems via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
Shengyu Feng, Xiang Kong, Shuang Ma, Aonan Zhang, Dong Yin, Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang, Yiming Yang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TIS-DPO: Token-level Importance Sampling for Direct Preference Optimization With Estimated Weights
Aiwei Liu, Haoping Bai, Zhiyun Lu, Yanchao Sun, Xiang Kong, Xiaoming Simon Wang, Jiulong Shan, Albin Madappally Jose, Xiaojiang Liu, Lijie Wen, Philip S. Yu, Meng Cao
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mega: Moving Average Equipped Gated Attention
Xuezhe Ma, Chunting Zhou, Xiang Kong, Junxian He, Liangke Gui, Graham Neubig, Jonathan May, Luke Zettlemoyer
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Luna: Linear Unified Nested Attention
Xuezhe Ma, Xiang Kong, Sinong Wang, Chunting Zhou, Jonathan May, Hao Ma, Luke Zettlemoyer
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 26 May 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Decoupling Global and Local Representations via Invertible Generative Flows
Xuezhe Ma, Xiang Kong, Shanghang Zhang, Eduard H Hovy
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Machine Translation with Adequacy-Oriented Learning.
Xiang Kong, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi, Eduard H. Hovy, Tong Zhang
- 2019 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- AAAI2019
- Readers: Everyone
Fast and Simple Mixture of Softmaxes with BPE and Hybrid-LightRNN for Language Generation.
Xiang Kong, Qizhe Xie, Zihang Dai, Eduard H. Hovy
- 2019 (modified: 10 Nov 2022)
- AAAI2019
- Readers: Everyone

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