Conformal Agent Error Attribution
Naihe Feng, Yi Sui, Shiyi Hou, Ga Wu, and Jesse C. Cresswell. 2026. Conformal Agent Error Attribution. Accepted at NeurIPS 2026; to appear.
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Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Dalhousie University, September 2025–present
- Supervised by Ga Wu
- Began graduate studies in September 2024; transferred to the PhD program in September 2025
- Honours Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, September 2013–June 2018
Work experience
- Software Engineer II, Microsoft, Vancouver, BC, July 2022–August 2024
- Developed C++ components for Bing Ads selection and built and optimized data pipelines for machine-learning training
- Software Engineer, then Senior Data Engineer, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Toronto, ON, March 2019–June 2022
- Developed Java Spring and Kafka applications for low-latency, fault-tolerant transaction messaging and implemented batch data processing in MemSQL
Research interests
- Reliable language-model systems
- Conformal prediction and retrieval-augmented generation
- Error attribution in multi-agent systems
Skills
- Programming: Python, Java, C++, C#, Angular
- Data analysis and data engineering
Publications
CRAMER: Control via Request-Aware Masking for Editing Recommenders
Zhiyuan Su, Naihe Feng, Luther Qin, and Ga Wu. 2026. CRAMER: Control via Request-Aware Masking for Editing Recommenders. Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 306:115995–116015.
Response Quality Assessment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Conditional Conformal Factuality
Naihe Feng, Yi Sui, Shiyi Hou, Jesse C. Cresswell, and Ga Wu. 2025. Response Quality Assessment for Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Conditional Conformal Factuality. Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2832–2836. DOI: 10.1145/3726302.3730244.