Xiaoyu Liu

Joined

May 2021

Names

Xiaoyu Liu (Preferred)

Emails

****@umd.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (umd.edu)

2021 – 2025

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Furong Huang

2021 – Present

Expertise

causal inference

Present

representation learning

Present

Large Language Model

Present

Publications

PersonaLedger: Generating Realistic Financial Transactions with Persona Conditioned LLMs and Rule Grounded Feedback
Dehao Yuan, Xiaoyu Liu, Minghui Liu, Tyler Farnan, Stefan Tesliuc, Doron L Bergman, James Montgomery, Nam H Nguyen, C. Bayan Bruss, Furong Huang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
DISCO Balances the Scales: Adaptive Domain- and Difficulty-Aware Reinforcement Learning on Imbalanced Data
Yuhang Zhou, Jing Zhu, Shengyi Qian, Zhuokai Zhao, Xiyao Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Ming Li, Paiheng Xu, Wei Ai, Furong Huang
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
ViCrit: A Verifiable Reinforcement Learning Proxy Task for Visual Perception in VLMs
Xiyao Wang, Zhengyuan Yang, Chao Feng, Yuhang Zhou, Xiaoyu Liu, Yongyuan Liang, Ming Li, Ziyi Zang, Linjie Li, Chung-Ching Lin, Kevin Lin, Furong Huang, Lijuan Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
CSRec: Rethinking Sequential Recommendation from A Causal Perspective.
Xiaoyu Liu, Jiaxin Yuan, Yuhang Zhou, Jingling Li, Furong Huang, Wei Ai
- CRL@NeurIPS 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Prompting Fairness: Integrating Causality to Debias Large Language Models
Jingling Li, Zeyu Tang, Xiaoyu Liu, Peter Spirtes, Kun Zhang, Liu Leqi, Yang Liu
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Steering LLMs Towards Unbiased Responses: A Causality-Guided Debiasing Framework
Jingling Li, Zeyu Tang, Xiaoyu Liu, Peter Spirtes, Kun Zhang, Liu Leqi, Yang Liu
- ICLR 2024 R2-FM Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Calibrated Dataset Condensation for Faster Hyperparameter Search
Mucong Ding, Yuancheng Xu, Tahseen Rabbani, Xiaoyu Liu, Brian Gravelle, Teresa Ranadive, tai-ching tuan, Furong Huang
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
DrM: Mastering Visual Reinforcement Learning through Dormant Ratio Minimization
Guowei Xu, Ruijie Zheng, Yongyuan Liang, Xiyao Wang, Zhecheng Yuan, Tianying Ji, Yu Luo, Xiaoyu Liu, Jiaxin Yuan, Pu Hua, Shuzhen Li, Yanjie Ze, Hal Daumé III, Furong Huang, Huazhe Xu
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
C-Disentanglement: Discovering Causally-Independent Generative Factors under an Inductive Bias of Confounder
Xiaoyu Liu, Jiaxin Yuan, Bang An, Yuancheng Xu, Yifan Yang, Furong Huang
- 1st SPIGM @ ICML Poster
- Readers: Everyone
C-Disentanglement: Discovering Causally-Independent Generative Factors under an Inductive Bias of Confounder
Xiaoyu Liu, Jiaxin Yuan, Bang An, Yuancheng Xu, Yifan Yang, Furong Huang
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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