Li Erran Li's Publications

2024

Siming Yan, Min Bai, Weifeng Chen, Xiong Zhou, Qixing Huang, Li Erran Li ViGoR: Improving Visual Grounding of Large Vision Language Models with Fine-Grained Reward Modeling , arXiv:2402.06118, 2024

Shengyi Qian, Weifeng Chen, Min Bai, Xiong Zhou, Zhuowen Tu, Li Erran Li, AffordanceLLM: Grounding Affordance from Vision Language Models , arXiv:2401.06341, 2024

Andong Wang, Bo Wu, Sunli Chen, Zhenfang Chen, Haotian Guan, Wei-Ning Lee, Li Erran Li, Chuang Gan, SOK-Bench: A Situated Video Reasoning Benchmark with Aligned Open-World Knowledge , CVPR, 2024

Nitish Joshi, Koushik Kalyanaraman, Zhiting Hu, Kumar Chellapilla, He He, Li Erran Li, Improving Multi-Hop Reasoning in Large Language Models by Learning from Rich Human Feedback , AAAI 2024 - NuCLeaR Workshop , February, 2024

2023

Yanjie Ze, Ge Yan, Yueh-Hua Wu, Annabella Macaluso, Yuying Ge, Jianglong Ye, Nicklas Hansen, Li Erran Li, Xiaolong Wang, Gnfactor: Multi-task Real Robot Learning with Generalizable Neural Feature Fields , Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), December, 2023

Yingdong Hu, Renhao Wang, Li Erran Li, Yang Gao For Pre-trained Vision Models in Motor Control, not all Policy Learning Methods are Created Equal , ICML, July, 2023

Deyao Zhu, Li Erran Li, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Value Memory Graph: A Graph-Structured World Model for Offline Reinforcement Learning , ICLR, May, 2023

Zaiwei Zhang, Min Bai, Erran Li Implicit Surface Contrastive Clustering for LiDAR Point Clouds , CVPR, June, 2023

Eslam Mohamed Bakr, Pengzhan Sun, Xiaogian Shen, Faizan Farooq Khan, Li Erran Li, Mohamed Elhoseiny Hrs-bench: Holistic, Reliable and Scalable Benchmark for Text-to-Image Models , ICCV, October, 2023

Yuying Ge, Annabella Macaluso, Li Erran Li, Ping Luo, Xiaolong Wang Policy Adaptation From Foundation Model Feedback , CVPR, June, 2023

Mo Zhou, Xiong Zhou, Erran Li, Stefano Ermon, Rong Ge Multi-head CLIP: Improving CLIP with Diverse representations and Flat Minima , NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (OPT2023), December, 2023

Chenwei Wu, Erran Li, Patrick Haffner, Stefano Ermon, Rong Ge, Zaiwei Zhang The Role of Linguistic Priors in Measuring Compositional Generalization of Vision-Language Models , NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on I Can't Believe It's Not Better (ICBINB): Failure Modes in the Age of Foundation Models, December, 2023

Amy Rechkemmer, Alex C. Williams, Matthew Lease, Erran Li Characterizing Time Spent in Video Object Tracking Annotation Tasks: a Study of Task Complexity in Vehicle Tracking , HCOMP, November, 2023

2022

Nasim Rahaman, Martin Weiss, Francesco Locatello, Chris Pal, Yoshua Bengio, Bernhard Schölkopf, Li Erran Li, Nicolas Ballas, Neural Attentive Circuits , NeurIPS , December, 2022

Zaiwei Zhang, Min Bai, Li Erran Li Self-Supervised Pretraining for Large-Scale Point Clouds , NeurIPS , December, 2022

Zhuofan Xia, Xuran Pan, Shiji Song, Li Erran Li, Gao Huang, Vision Transformer with Deformable Attention , CVPR, June, 2022 (Best Paper Finalist)

2021

Zhiting Hu, Erran Li, A causal lens for controllable text generation , NeurIPS, Dec, 2021

Deyao Zhu, Mohamed Zahran, Li Erran Li, Mohamed Elhoseiny,  Motion Forecasting with Unlikelihood Training in Continuous Space , 5th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Nov, 2021

Zhan Shi, Hui Liu, Martin Renqiang Min, Christopher Malon, Li Erran Li and Xiaodan Zhu, Retrieval, Analogy, and Composition: A framework for Compositional Generalization in Image Captioning , Findings of EMNLP, Nov, 2021

Xuanchi Ren, Tao Yang, Li Erran Li, Alexandre Alahi, Qifeng Chen, Safety-aware Motion Prediction with Unseen Vehicles for Autonomous Driving , International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Oct, 2021

Xuran Pan, Zhuofan Xia, Shiji Song, Li Erran Li, Gao Huang, 3D Object Detection with Pointformer , IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2021

Zhenpei Yang, Li Erran Li, and Qixing Huang, StruMonoNet: Structure-Aware Monocular 3D Prediction , IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2021

Kun Qian, Shilin Zhu, Xinyu Zhang, Li Erran Li, Robust Multimodal Vehicle Detection in Adverse Weather using Complementary Lidar and Radar Signals , IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2021

Jun Han, Martin Renqiang Min, Ligong Han, Xuan Zhang, Li Erran Li, Disentangled Recurrent Wasserstein Autoencoder , International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May, 2021

Deyao Zhu, Mohamed Zahran, Li Erran Li, Mohamed Elhoseiny, HalentNet: Multimodal Trajectory Forecasting with Hallucinative Intents , International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May, 2021

Mahdi Namazifar, John Malik, Li Erran Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Correcting Automated and Manual Speech Transcription Errors using Warped Language Models , INTERSPEECH, August, 2021

Yixin Chen, Weiyi Lu, Alejandro Mottini, Li Erran Li, Jasha Droppo, Zheng Du, Belinda Zeng, Top-down Attention in end-to-end Spoken Language Understanding , IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June, 2021

Han Ding, Li Erran Li, Zhiting Hu, Yi Xu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Zheng Du, Belinda Zeng, Semantic Aligned Multi-modal Transformer for Vision-Language Understanding: A Preliminary Study on Visual QA , NAACL 2021 Third Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (MAI-Workshop) , June, 2021

2020

Jiaxin Xie, Chenyang Lei, Zhuwen Li, Li Erran Li, and Qifeng Chen, Video Depth Estimation by Fusing Flow-to-Depth Proposals , IEEE/RSJ InternationalConference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2020

Yan Wang*, Xiangyu Chen*, Yurong You, Li Erran Li, Bharath Hariharan, Mark Campbell, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Wei-Lun Chao, Train in Germany, Test in The USA: Making 3D Object Detectors Generalize , IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , June, 2020

Shuo Cheng, Zexiang Xu, Shilin Zhu, Zhuwen Li, Li Erran Li, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Hao Su, Deep Stereo using Adaptive Thin Volume Representation with Uncertainty Awareness , IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , June, 2020

Weiyi Lu, Yi Xu, Erran Li, Efficient Evaluation of Task Oriented Dialogue Systems , NeurIPS 2020 Workshop on Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems, December, 2020

2019

Shuo Cheng, Zexiang Xu, Shilin Zhu, Zhuwen Li, Li Erran Li, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Hao Su, Deep Stereo using Adaptive Thin Volume Representation with Uncertainty Awareness , ArXiv::1911.12012v1, November, 2019

Jiaxin Xie, Chenyang Lei, Zhuwen Li, Li Erran Li, and Qifeng Chen, Video Depth Estimation by Fusing Flow-to-Depth Proposals , arXiv:1912.12874, December, 2019

Jun Han, Martin Renqiang Min, Xuan Zhang, Li Erran Li, Rui Liu, Lorenzo Torresani, Qiang Liu, Disentangled Recurrent Wasserstein AutoEncoder , in submission, October 2019

Zhenyu Duan, Martin Min, Li Erran Li, Mingbo Cai, and Yi Xu, Disentangled Deep Autoencoding Regularization for Robust Image Classification , ArXiv:1902.11134v1, February 2019

Hengyu Zhao, Yubo Zhang, Pingfan Meng, Hui Shi, Li Erran Li, Tiancheng Lou, Jishen Zhao Towards Safety-Aware Computing System Design in Autonomous Vehicles , ArXiv:1905.08453v2, May 2019

2018

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Li Erran Li and Ion Stoica, Mitigating the Latency-Accuracy Trade-off in Mobile Data Analytics Systems , ACM MobiCom, October 2018

2017

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Li Erran Li and Ion Stoica, Automating Diagnosis of Cellular Radio Access Network Problems , ACM MobiCom, October 2017

Nikolay Laptev, Jason Yosinski, Li Erran Li, Slawek Smyl, Time-series Extreme Event Forecasting with Neural Networks at Uber, ICML Time Series Worksop, August 2017.

Li Errn Li, Eric Chen, Jeremy Hermann, Pusheng Zhang, Luming Wang, Scaling Machine Learning as a Service, Journal of Machine Learning Reserch (JMLR), 2017.

2016

Ankur Dave, Alekh Jindal, Li Erran Li, Reynold Xin, Joseph Gonzalez, Matei Zaharia, GraphFrames: Graph Queries in Spark SQL, Spark Summit and GRADES workshop, June 2016 (Spark Submmit Slides).

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Li Erran Li, Tathagata Das and Ion Stoica, Streaming Graph Processing at Scale, GRADES workshop, June 2016.

Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Ion Stoica, Mosharaf Chowdhury and Li Erran Li, Fast and Accurate Performance Analysis of LTE Radio Access Networks, arXiv:1605.04652, June 2016.

Xitao Wen, Bo Yang, Yan Chen, Li Erran Li, Kai Bu, Peng Zheng, Yang Yang, Chengchen Hu, RuleTris: Minimizing Rule Update Latency for TCAM-based SDN Switches, IEEE ICDCS, June 2016.

Kai Bu, Xitao Wen, Bo Yang, Yan Chen, Li Erran Li, Xiaolin Chen, Is Every Flow on The Right Track?: Inspect SDN Forwarding with RuleScope, IEEE INFOCOM, April 2016.

2015

Anand Iyer, Li Erran Li, and Ion Stoica, CellIQ: Real-Time Cellular Network Analytics at Scale , USENIX NSDI, May 2015.

Xiufeng Xie, Xinyu Zhang, Swarun Kumar, Li Erran Li, piStream: Physical Layer Informed Adaptive Video Streaming Over LTE, ACM MOBICOM, September 2015.

Keqiang He, Junaid Khalid, Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Sourav Das, Chaithan Prakash, Aditya Akella, Li Erran Li and Marina Thottan, Measuring Control Plane Latency in SDN-enabled Switches, ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), June 2015 (ACM SIGMETRICS extended abstract).

2014

Mehrdad Moradi, Wenfei Wu, Li Erran Li, and Morley Mao, SoftMoW: Recursive and Reconfigurable Cellular WAN Architecture , ACM CoNEXT, December 2014.

Aggelos Lazaris, Daniel Tahara, X. Huang, Li Erran Li, Andreas Voellmy, Yang Richard Yang, and Minlan Yu, Tango: Simplifying SDN Programming with Automatic Switch Behavior Inference, Abstraction, and Optimization , ACM CoNEXT, December 2014.

Wenfei Wu, Li Erran Li, Aurojit Panda, and Scott Shenker, PRAN: Programmable Radio Access Networks , Proc. ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (Hotnets-XIII), , October 2014

Swarun Kumar, Ezzeldin Hamed, Dina Katabi, and Li Erran Li, LTE Radio Analytics Made Easy and Accessible ACM SIGCOMM, August 2014.

Xitao Wen, Chunxiao Diao, Xun Zhao, Yan Chen, Li Erran Li, Bo Yang, Kai Bu, Compiling Minimum Incremental Update for Modular SDN Languages , ACM HotSDN, August 2014.

Sachin Katti and Li Erran Li, RadioVisor: A Slicing Plane for Radio Access Networks , Open Networking Summit, Research Track, March 2014.

Mehrdad Moradi, Li Erran Li, and Morley Mao, SoftMoW: A Dynamic and Scalable Software Defined Architecture for Cellular WANs, Open Networking Summit, Research Track, March 2014.

Aggelos Lazaris, Daniel Tahara, Xin Huang, Li Erran Li, Andreas Voellmy, Yang Richard Yang, Minlan Yu, Jive: Performance Driven Abstraction and Optimization for SDN, Open Networking Summit, Research Track, March 2014.

2013

Xin Jin, Li Erran Li, Laurent Vanbever, and Jennifer Rexford, SoftCell: Scalable and Flexible Cellular Core Network Architecture, ACM CoNEXT, 2013, Technical Report, Open Networking Summit 2013

Aditya Gudipati, Daniel James Perry, Li Erran Li, Sachin Katti, SoftRAN: Software Defined Radio Access Networks, ACM SIGCOMM HotSDN Workshop, 2013.

Li Erran Li, Vahid Liaghat, Hongze Zhao, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Dan Li, Gordon Wilfong, Yang Richard Yang, and Chuanxiong Guo, PACE: Policy-Aware Application Cloud Embedding, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2013

Sungro Yoon, Li Erran Li, Soung Liew, Romit Roy Choudhury, Kun Tan, and Injong Rhee, QuickSense: Fast and Energy-Efficient Channel Sensing for Dynamic Spectrum Access Wireless Networks, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2013

Jin Cao, Hongyu Gao, Li Erran Li, and Brian Friedman, Enterprise Social Network Analysis and Modeling: A Tale of Two Graphs, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2013

2012

Clayton Shepard, Hang Yu, Narendra Anand, Li Erran Li, Thomas Marzetta, Richard Yang, Lin Zhong Argos: Practical Many-Antenna Base Stations, Proc. ACM MOBICOM, August 2012

Paramvir Bahl, Richard Y. Han, Li Erran Li, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Advancing the State of Mobile Cloud Computing, Proc. of ACM MobiSys workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services (MCS), June 2012

L. Erran Li, Morley Mao and Jennifer Rexford, Towards Software-Defined Cellular Networks, First European Workshop on Software Defined Networking, Oct 2012

2011

Z. Huang, C. Mei, L. Erran Li, and T. Woo, CloudStream: Delivering High-Quality Streaming Video through a Content-Aware Cloud-Based H.264/SVC Video Proxy, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Minisymposium, April 2011

Y. Seung, T. Lam, L. Erran Li and T. Woo, CloudFlex: Seamless Scaling of Enterprise Applications into the Cloud Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Minisymposium, April 2011

Z. Hao, S. Zhong, and L. Erran Li, Towards Wireless Security without Computational Assumptions--An Oblivious Transfer Protocol Based on an Unauthenticated Wireless Channel, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2011

2010

N. Jiang, J. Cao, Y. Jin, L. Erran Li, and Z. L. Zhang, Identifying Suspicious Activities through DNS Failure Graph Analysis, Proc. IEEE ICNP , Oct 2010

L. Erran Li and T. Woo, VSITE: a scalable and secure architecture for seamless L2 enterprise extension in the cloud, Proc. The 6th workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) , Oct 2010

L. Erran Li, K. Tan, Y. Xu, H. Viswanathan, Y. Richard Yang, Remap Decoding: Simple Retransmission Permutation Can Resolve Overlapping Channel Collisions, Proc. ACM MOBICOM , Sept 2010

L. Erran Li, M.F. Nowlan, Y.R. Yang, and M. Zhang, Mosaic: Policy Homomorphic Network Extention, Proc. The 4th ACM SIGOPS/SIGACT Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware(LADIS) , July 2010

Li Erran Li, Rich Alimi, Dawei Shen, Harish Viswanathan, Yang Richard Yang, A General Algorithm for Interference Alignment and Cancellation in Wireless Networks, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM , March 2010

Jin Cao, Li Erran Li, Aiyou Chen, Tian Bu, Tracking Quantiles with Updates and Deletaions for Network Monitoring, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Minisymposium, March 2010

Aiyou Chen, Yu Jin, Jin Cao, Li Erran Li, Tracking Long Duration Flows in Network Traffic , Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Minisymposium, April 2010

2009

Li Erran Li, Junliang Liu, Kun Tan, Harish Viswanathan, Yang Richard Yang, Retransmission ≠ Repeat: Simple Retransmission Permutation Can Resolve Overlapping Channel Collisions , Proc. ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (Hotnets-VIII), , Oct 2009

Aiyou Chen, Li Erran Li, Jin Cao, Incremental Tracking of Multiple Quantiles for Networking Monitoring in Cellular Networks , Proc. ACM Workshop on Mobile Internet Through Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges and Solutions (MICNET), , September 2009

Aiyou Chen, Li Erran Li, Jin Cao, Estimating Cardinality Distribution in Network Traffic , Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, , April 2009

Li Erran Li, Rich Alimi, Ram Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan, and Yang Richard Yang, muNet: Harnessing Multiuser Capacity in Wireless Networks , Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Minisymposium(5 pages), April 2009

Li Erran Li, Aiyou chen, Tian Bu and Scott Miller, Detecting wireless data subscribers using Nated devices , Bell Labs Technical Journal , 2009

2008

Fan Wu, Tingting Chen, Sheng Zhong, Li Erran Li and Yang Richard Yang, Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks, Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), September 2008

Latency equalization: a Programmable Routing Service Primitive, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on programmable routers (PRESTO), August 2008

Aiyou Chen, Li Erran Li, Jin Cao, Estimating Cardinality Distributions in Network Traffic: Extended Abstract , Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, June 2008

Li Erran Li, Martin Pal and Yang Richard Yang, Proportional Fairness in Multi-Rate Wireless LANs, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2008

Rich Alimi, Li Erran Li, Ram Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan and Yang Richard Yang, High Throughput Wireles Mesh Networks by In-Network Transmitter Packet Mixing, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2008

Xin Hu, Li Erran Li, Morley Mao and Yang Richard Yang, Wide-Area IP Network Mobility, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, April 2008

Li Erran Li, Mohammad Mahdian, and Vahab Mirrokni, Secure Overlay Network Design, Algorithmica, 2008 (journal version of AAIM'06 paper).

Nicole Immorlica, Li Erran Li, Vahab Mirrokni, and Andreas Schulz. Coordination Mechanisms for Selfish Scheduling, Theoretical Computer Science journal, December, 2008 (journal version of WINE'05 paper).

Minho Sung, Jim Xu, Jun Li, and Li Erran Li, Large-Scale IP Traceback in High-Speed Internet: Practical Techniques and Theoretical Foundation, IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking (ToN), Dec 2008 (journal version of S&P'04 paper).

Mansoor Alicherry, Randeep Bhatia, Li (Erran) Li, Channel Assignment and Routing in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks , Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Dec 2008 (Book Entry).

2007

Li (Erran) Li, Rich Alimi, Ram Ramjee, Jingpu Shi, Yanjun Sun, Harish Viswanathan, and Yang Richard Yang, Superposition Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks, Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)(4 pages), September 2007

Li (Erran) Li, Ram Ramjee, Milind Buddhikot and Scott Miller, Network-coding based broadcast in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, INFOCOM , April 2007

Randeep Bhatia, A. Kashyap and Li (Erran) Li, The Power Balancing Problem in Energy Constrained Multi-hop Wireless Networks , INFOCOM , April 2007

Randeep Bhatia and Li (Erran) Li, Throughput Optimization in Wireless Mesh Networks with MIMO Links , INFOCOM Minisymposium, April 2007

Yigal Bejerano, S.J. Han and Li (Erran) Li, Fairness and Load Balancing in Wireless LANs, IEEE Trans. on Networking, (journal version of MOBICOM'04 paper).

Sheng Zhong, Li (Erran) Li, Yang R. Yang and Yanbin Liu, On Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks --- An Integrated Approach Using Game Theoretical and Cryptographic Techniques, ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET) journal, Feb, 2007 (journal version of MOBICOM'05 paper).

2006

Tian Bu, Li (Erran) Li and Ram Ramjee, ACACIA: A certificate-based Access-Controlled Internet Architecture, Bell Labs Tech. Mem. , Jan, 2006

Mansoor Alicherry, Randeep Bhatia and Li (Erran) Li, Joint Channel Assignment and Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE JSAC Special issue on Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks, Pages: 1960-1971, Volume 24, Issue 11, Nov. 2006 (journal version of MOBICOM'05 paper).

Michel Goemans, Li (Erran) Li, Vahab Mirrokni and Marina Thottan, Market Sharing Games Applied to Content Distribution in Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE JSAC Special issue on Price-Based Access Control and Economics for Communication Networks, Vol. 24, No.5, May 2006 (journal version of MOBIHOC'05 paper).

Zygmunt Haas, Joseph Y. Halpern, and Li (Erran) Li, Gossiping-based Ad Hoc Routing, IEEE Trans. on Networking, Pages: 479-491, Volume 14, Issue 3, June 2006 (journal version of INFOCOM'02 paper; code).

Randeep Bhatia, Li (Erran) Li, Haiyun Luo and Ramachandran Ramjee, ICAM: Integrated Cellular and Ad-Hoc Multicast, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), Pages 1004-1015, Volume 5, No. 8, August, 2006.

Tian Bu, Li (Erran) Li and Ram Ramjee, Generalized Proportional Fair Scheduling in Third Generation Wireless Data Networks, IEEE INFOCOM , April, 2006

M. Taghi Hajiaghayi, Li (Erran) Li, Vahab Mirrokni and Marina Thottan, Bandwidth Sharing Network Design for Multi-class Traffic, IEEE INFOCOM , April, 2006

Minho Sung, A. Kumar, Li (Erran) Li, Jia Wang and Jim Xu, Efficient Data Streaming Algorithms for Detecting Common Contents in Internet Traffic, IEEE International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB) , April, 2006

Li (Erran) Li, Mohammad Mahdian, and Vahab Mirrokni, Secure Overlay Network Design, International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management , June, 2006