Shaoang Li

Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Innovation Institute (AI3)
Stony Brook University shaoang.li@stonybrook.edu Google Scholar

Publications

* Equal contribution. Underline indicates me.

Recent Preprints
Beyond the Answer: Student-Conditioned Trace Construction for Reasoning Distillation
Shaoang Li*, Yanhang Shi*, Yufei Li, Mingfu Liang, Frank Shyu, Sandeep Pandey, Luke Simon, Xi Liu, Jian Li
arXiv:2610.23831, 2026. [arXiv]
When Reasoning Traces Conflict with Evidence: How Answer Configuration Shapes Evidence Following
Shaoang Li*, Yanhang Shi*, Jian Li
arXiv:2610.20805, 2026. [arXiv]
Constraint Tree Exploration for Learning from Language Feedback
Shaoang Li, Daniel R. Jiang, Jian Li
arXiv:2610.09107, 2026. [arXiv]
From Discovery to Decision: Finite-Budget Recoverability in LLM Voting
Shaoang Li, Jian Li
arXiv:2610.01014, 2026. [arXiv]
Accepted Papers
Learning Evidence Highlighting for Frozen LLMs
Shaoang Li*, Yanhang Shi*, Yufei Li, Mingfu Liang, Xiaohan Wei, Yunchen Pu, Fei Tian, Chonglin Sun, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Jian Li
NeurIPS 2026. [arXiv]
POLAR: Online Learning for LoRA Adapter Caching and Routing in Edge LLM Serving
Shaoang Li, Jian Li
MobiHoc 2026. [arXiv]
Near-Optimal Online Deployment and Routing for Streaming LLMs
Shaoang Li, Jian Li
ICLR 2026. [Paper] [arXiv]
Constrained Feedback Learning for Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandits
Shaoang Li, Jian Li
NeurIPS 2025. [Paper] [arXiv]
Don't Restart, Just Reuse: Reoptimizing MILPs with Dynamic Parameters
Sijia Zhang, Shuli Zeng, Shaoang Li, Feng Wu, Shaojie Tang, Xiang-Yang Li
ICML 2025. [Paper]
Guiding Large Language Models in Modeling Optimization Problems via Question Partitioning
Xiaotian Pan, Junhao Fang, Feng Wu, Sijia Zhang, Yi-Xiang Hu, Shaoang Li, Xiang-Yang Li
IJCAI 2025. [Paper]
Learning to Select Nodes in Branch and Bound with Sufficient Tree Representation
Sijia Zhang, Shuli Zeng, Shaoang Li, Feng Wu, Xiang-Yang Li
ICLR 2025. [Paper]
DPShaping: Balancing Privacy Guarantee and Communication Cost in IoT Traffic Shaping
Sijia Zhang, Xiang Cui, Haohua Du, Shaoang Li, Yingqi Yu, Jiahui Hou, Xiang-Yang Li
ACM TOSN 2025. [Paper]
FFCG: Effective and Fast Family Column Generation for Solving Large-Scale Linear Program
Yi-Xiang Hu, Feng Wu, Shaoang Li, Yifang Zhao, Xiang-Yang Li
AAAI 2025. [Paper] [arXiv]
Bandits with Concave Aggregated Reward
Yingqi Yu, Sijia Zhang, Shaoang Li, Lan Zhang, Wei Xie, Xiang-Yang Li
IJCAI 2024. [Paper]
Optimal Arms Identification with Knapsacks
Shaoang Li, Lan Zhang, Yingqi Yu, Xiang-Yang Li
ICML 2023. [Paper]
TVFL: Tunable Vertical Federated Learning towards Communication-Efficient Model Serving
Junhao Wang, Lan Zhang, Yihang Cheng, Shaoang Li, Hong Zhang, Dongbo Huang, Lan Xu
INFOCOM 2023. [Paper]
Reinforcement Learning for Node Selection in Mixed Integer Programming
Sijia Zhang, Shaoang Li, Feng Wu, Xiang-Yang Li
MASS 2023. [Paper]
Online Pricing with Limited Supply and Time-Sensitive Valuations
Shaoang Li, Lan Zhang, Xiang-Yang Li
INFOCOM 2022. [Paper]