Research
(*equal contribution, #corresponding author)
Publications
2027
- [SODA’27] Quantum Multi-Armed Bandits and Linear Bandits: Lower Bounds and Algorithms
Maoli Liu, Zhuohua Li, and John C.S. Lui.
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, January 2027. (AR: 287/1181=24.3%)
[arXiv]
2026
[NeurIPS’26] Safe Linear Bandits with Unknown Safety Gaps
Maoli Liu, Zhuohua Li, Zeyu Zhang, Xiangxiang Dai, and John C.S. Lui.
The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Sydney, Australia, December 2026. (Main Track AR: 7900/30709=25.7%)
[NeurIPS’26] Near-Optimal Learning in Parametric Bandits with Action-Dependent Coarsened Feedback
Zhuohua Li, Maoli Liu, Yuwen Huang, Cheng Wen, Jie Su, Cong Tian, Shengchao Qin, and John C.S. Lui.
The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Sydney, Australia, December 2026. (Main Track AR: 7900/30709=25.7%)
[ToN’26] Efficient Quantum Link Selection and Fidelity Estimation Under Success Rate Constraints
Maoli Liu, Zhuohua Li, Xuchuang Wang, and John C.S. Lui.
IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2026.
[AAAI’26-AIA] A Multi-Agent Conversational Bandit Approach to Online Evaluation and Selection of User-Aligned LLM Responses
Xiangxiang Dai, Yuejin Xie, Maoli Liu, Xuchuang Wang, Zhuohua Li, Huanyu Wang, and John C.S. Lui.
In Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Special Track on AI Alignment. Singapore, January 2026. (AI Alignment Track AR: 106/468=22.6%)
[arXiv]
[ToN’26] Multipath Inter-Domain Routing Protocols for Quantum Networks with Online Path Selection
Zhuohua Li, Maoli Liu, Kechao Cai, Jonathan Allcock, Shengyu Zhang, and John C.S. Lui.
IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2026.
2025
[KDD’25] Leveraging the Power of Conversations: Optimal Key Term Selection in Conversational Contextual Bandits
Maoli Liu, Zhuohua Li, Xiangxiang Dai, John C.S. Lui.
In Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Toronto, Canada, August 2025. (February Cycle AR: 365/1988=18.4%)
[arXiv]
[ICLR’25] Demystifying Online Clustering of Bandits: Enhanced Exploration Under Stochastic and Smoothed Adversarial Contexts
Zhuohua Li*, Maoli Liu*#, Xiangxiang Dai, John C.S. Lui.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
[Updated arXiv Version] | [OpenReview] | [Poster]
[ICLR’25] Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Attacks
Xuchuang Wang, Maoli Liu, Jinhang Zuo, Xutong Liu, John C.S. Lui, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
[OpenReview]
[WWW’25] Towards Efficient Conversational Recommendations: Expected Value of Information Meets Bandit Learning
Zhuohua Li, Maoli Liu, Xiangxiang Dai, John C.S. Lui.
The Web Conference (WWW), 2025. (AR: 409/2062=19.8%)
[PDF] | [Poster]
[INFOCOM’25] Learning Best Paths in Quantum Networks
Xuchuang Wang, Maoli Liu#, Xutong Liu#, Zhuohua Li, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, John C.S. Lui, Don Towsley.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2025. (AR: 272/1458=18.7%)
[arXiv]
2024
[IJCAI’24] FedConPE: Efficient Federated Conversational Bandits with Heterogeneous Clients.
Zhuohua Li*, Maoli Liu*, John C.S. Lui.
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24). Jeju, South Korea, August 2024. (AR: 791/5651=14.0%, Long Oral: 128/5651=2.3%)
[arXiv] | [Poster]
[INFOCOM’24] LinkSelFiE: Link Selection and Fidelity Estimation in Quantum Networks.
Maoli Liu, Zhuohua Li, Xuchuang Wang, and John C.S. Lui.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2024. Vancouver, Canada, May 2024. (AR: 256/1307=19.6%)
[PDF] | [code]
[INFOCOM’24] Quantum BGP with Online Path Selection via Network Benchmarking.
Maoli Liu*, Zhuohua Li*, Kechao Cai, Jonathan Allcock, Shengyu Zhang, and John C.S. Lui.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2024. Vancouver, Canada, May 2024. (AR: 256/1307=19.6%)
[PDF] | [code]
[ToN’24] Tracking Influencers in Decaying Social Activity Streams With Theoretical Guarantees
Junzhou Zhao, Pinghui Wang, Wei Zhang, Zhaosong Zhang, Maoli Liu, Jing Tao, John CS Lui
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 1461-1476, April 2024.
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