Nan Jiang

Publications

In reverse chronological order; * denotes equal contribution. Also on Google Scholar.

Preprints2 papers

  1. Preprint
    PreSTO: Predictive Subtree Prefetching for Fast LLM Power Sampling
    Nan Jiang, Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Wei Deng
    Preprint
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  2. Preprint
    Explore Broadly, Reason Sharply: Push Small Models toward the Frontier via Sampling
    Panagiotis Theodoropoulos, Nan Jiang, Xintong Duan, Ali Hasan, Yuriy Nevmyvaka, Evangelos A. Theodorou, Wei Deng
    Preprint
    arXiv

20266 papers

  1. Constraints
  2. EMNLP Findings
    Using Grounded Theory for Agent Behavior Analysis at Scale
    Zhuoran Lu, Yangyang Yu, Zhuoyan Li, Yibo Meng, Nan Jiang, Jie Gao, Chengxi Zang, Ziang Xiao
    Findings of EMNLP 2026
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  3. TMLR
  4. AISTATS
    DIVERSED: Relaxed Speculative Decoding via Dynamic Ensemble Verification
    Ziyi Wang, Siva Rajesh Kasa, Ankith M S, Santhosh Kumar Kasa, Jiaru Zou, Sumit Negi, Ruqi Zhang, Nan Jiang, Qifan Song
    AISTATS 2026
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  5. ICLR
  6. ICLR
    Ultra-Fast Language Generation via Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
    Haoyang Zheng, Xinyang Liu, Cindy Xiangrui Kong, Nan Jiang, Zheyuan Hu, Weijian Luo, Wei Deng, Guang Lin
    ICLR 2026
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20254 papers

  1. ICML
  2. AAAI
  3. PhD thesis
  4. Springer
    Expediting Symbolic Regression for Science Using Scientific Approaches
    Md Nasim, Nan Jiang, Yexiang Xue
    Book Chapter, Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery (Springer)

20244 papers

  1. RLC
    A Tighter Convergence Proof of Reverse Experience Replay
    Nan Jiang, Jinzhao Li, Yexiang Xue
    Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) 2024
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  2. IJCAI
  3. AAAI
  4. AAAI

20232 papers

  1. ECML-PKDD
  2. AAAI

20222 papers

  1. JMLR
    Constraint Reasoning Embedded Structured Prediction
    Nan Jiang, Maosen Zhang, Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Yexiang Xue
    JMLR 2022
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  2. TheWebConf
    Massive Text Normalization via an Efficient Randomized Algorithm
    Nan Jiang, Chen Luo, Vihan Lakshman, Yesh Dattatreya, Yexiang Xue
    TheWebConf 2022
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20211 paper

  1. UAI
    PALM: Probabilistic Area Loss Minimization for Protein Sequence Alignment
    Fan Ding*, Nan Jiang*, Jianzhu Ma, Jian Peng, Jinbo Xu, Yexiang Xue
    UAI 2021
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20202 papers

  1. EMNLP Findings
  2. Neurocomputing
    A dual channel class hierarchy-based recurrent language modeling
    Libin Shi, Wenge Rong, Shijie Zhou, Nan Jiang, Zhang Xiong
    Neurocomputing 2020
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20181 paper

  1. NAACL-HLT

20172 papers

  1. IJCAI
    Exploration of Tree-based Hierarchical Softmax for Recurrent Language Models
    Nan Jiang, Wenge Rong, Min Gao, Yikang Shen, Zhang Xiong
    IJCAI 2017
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  2. IEEE/ACM TCBB
    Biological Event Trigger Identification with Noise Contrastive Estimation
    Nan Jiang, Wenge Rong, Yifan Nie, Yikang Shen, Zhang Xiong
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 2017
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20151 paper

  1. IJCNN
    An Empirical Analysis of Different Sparse Penalties for Autoencoder in Unsupervised Feature Learning
    Nan Jiang, Wenge Rong, Baolin Peng, Yifan Nie, Zhang Xiong
    IJCNN 2015
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