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Ziru Chen

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preprint2026arXiv

D3-Gym: Constructing Real-World Verifiable Environments for Data-Driven Discovery

Despite recent progress in language models and agents for scientific data-driven discovery, further advancing their capabilities is held back by the absence of verifiable environments representing real-world scientific tasks. To fill this gap, we introduce D3-Gym, the first automatically constructed dataset with verifiable environments for scientific Data-Driven Discovery. D3-Gym comprises (1) 565 tasks sourced from 239 real scientific repositories across four disciplines where (2) each task is equipped with a natural language instruction, an executable environment with pre-installed dependencies, input dataset and artifact previews, a reference code solution, and an automatically synthesized evaluation script. Rigorous evaluation of the quality of the verification signal in D3-Gym confirms that our evaluation scripts achieve 87.5% agreement with human-annotated gold standards and strong alignment in domain-specific evaluation logic, showing their scientific soundness. Further, training on trajectories sampled from D3-Gym yields consistent and substantial gains across Qwen3 models of varying sizes on ScienceAgentBench, boosting Qwen3-32B by 7.8 absolute points and substantially shrinking the gap with strong proprietary models. All D3-Gym artifacts (environments, creation workflow, trajectories, and models) can be found at https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/D3-Gym.

preprint2026arXiv

MVT: Mask-Grounded Vision-Language Models for Taxonomy-Aligned Land-Cover Tagging

Land-cover understanding in remote sensing increasingly demands class-agnostic systems that generalize across datasets while remaining spatially precise and interpretable. We study a geometry-first discovery-and-interpretation setting under domain shift, where candidate regions are delineated class-agnostically and supervision avoids lexical class names via anonymized identifiers. Complementary to open-set recognition and open-world learning, we focus on coupling class-agnostic mask evidence with taxonomy-grounded scene interpretation, rather than unknown rejection or continual class expansion. We propose MVT, a three-stage framework that (i) extracts boundary-faithful region masks using SAM2 with domain adaptation, (ii) performs mask-grounded semantic tagging and scene description generation via dual-step LoRA fine-tuning of multimodal LLMs, and (iii) evaluates outputs with LLM-as-judge scoring calibrated by stratified expert ratings. On cross-dataset segmentation transfer (train on OpenEarthMap, evaluate on LoveDA), domain-adapted SAM2 improves mask quality; meanwhile, dual-step MLLM fine-tuning yields more accurate taxonomy-aligned tags and more informative mask-grounded scene descriptions.

preprint2022arXiv

A Deep Reinforcement Learning based Approach for NOMA-based Random Access Network with Truncated Channel Inversion Power Control

As a main use case of 5G and Beyond wireless network, the ever-increasing machine type communications (MTC) devices pose critical challenges over MTC network in recent years. It is imperative to support massive MTC devices with limited resources. To this end, Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based random access network has been deemed as a prospective candidate for MTC network. In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (RL) based approach for NOMA-based random access network with truncated channel inversion power control. Specifically, each MTC device randomly selects a pre-defined power level with a certain probability for data transmission. Devices are using channel inversion power control yet subject to the upper bound of the transmission power. Due to the stochastic feature of the channel fading and the limited transmission power, devices with different achievable power levels have been categorized as different types of devices. In order to achieve high throughput with considering the fairness between all devices, two objective functions are formulated. One is to maximize the minimum long-term expected throughput of all MTC devices, the other is to maximize the geometric mean of the long-term expected throughput for all MTC devices. A Policy based deep reinforcement learning approach is further applied to tune the transmission probabilities of each device to solve the formulated optimization problems. Extensive simulations are conducted to show the merits of our proposed approach.

preprint2022arXiv

Bootstrapping a User-Centered Task-Oriented Dialogue System

We present TacoBot, a task-oriented dialogue system built for the inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, which assists users in completing multi-step cooking and home improvement tasks. TacoBot is designed with a user-centered principle and aspires to deliver a collaborative and accessible dialogue experience. Towards that end, it is equipped with accurate language understanding, flexible dialogue management, and engaging response generation. Furthermore, TacoBot is backed by a strong search engine and an automated end-to-end test suite. In bootstrapping the development of TacoBot, we explore a series of data augmentation strategies to train advanced neural language processing models and continuously improve the dialogue experience with collected real conversations. At the end of the semifinals, TacoBot achieved an average rating of 3.55/5.0.

preprint2020arXiv

Optimizing Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Random Access Networks

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered as a promising solution for improving the spectrum efficiency of next-generation wireless networks. In this paper, the performance of a p-persistent slotted ALOHA system in support of NOMA transmissions is investigated. Specifically, wireless users can choose to use high or low power for data transmissions with certain probabilities. To achieve the maximum network throughput, an analytical framework is developed to analyze the successful transmission probability of NOMA and long term average throughput of users involved in the non-orthogonal transmissions. The feasible region of the maximum number of concurrent users using high and low power to ensure successful NOMA transmissions are quantified. Based on the analysis, an algorithm is proposed to find the optimal transmission probabilities for users to choose high and low power to achieve the maximum system throughput. In addition, the impact of power settings on the network performance is further investigated. Simulations are conducted to validate the analysis.