• On the power of foundation models

  Yang Yuan ICML 2023

  《孟子·告子下》：有诸内，必形诸外。

  《黄帝内经·灵枢·外揣》：司外揣内，司内揣外。

• Contrastive learning is spectral clustering on similarity graph

  Zhiquan Tan, Yifan Zhang, Jingqin Yang, Yang Yuan ICLR 2024

  Category theory for AI in single dimensional case.

• Trade-off between efficiency and consistency for removal-based explanations

  Yifan Zhang, Haowei He, Zhiquan Tan, Yang Yuan NeurIPS 2023

  Impossible Trinity of removal-based explanations.

Publications

• Autonomous Data Selection with Zero-shot Generative Classifiers for Mathematical Texts,

  Yifan Zhang, Yifan Luo, Yang Yuan, Andrew C Yao,

  ACL 2025 Findings.

• Hierarchical Attention Generates Better Proofs,

  Jianlong Chen, Chao Li, Yang Yuan, Andrew C Yao,

  ACL 2025 Main.

• CatCode: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for LLMs On the Mixture of Code and Text,

  Zhenru Lin, Yiqun Yao, Yang Yuan,

  COLM 2024.

• Matrix Information Theory for Self-Supervised Learning,

  Yifan Zhang, Zhiquan Tan, Jingqin Yang, Weiran Huang, Yang Yuan,

  ICML 2024.

• Information Flow in Self-Supervised Learning,

  Zhiquan Tan, Jingqin Yang, Weiran Huang, Yang Yuan, Yifan Zhang,

  ICML 2024.

• Contrastive Learning is Spectral Clustering on Similarity Graph,

  Zhiquan Tan, Yifan Zhang, Jingqin Yang, Yang Yuan,

  ICLR 2024.

• Trade-off Between Efficiency and Consistency for Removal-based Explanations,

  Yifan Zhang, Haowei He, Zhiquan Tan, Yang Yuan,

  NeurIPS 2023.

• Towards Data-Algorithm Dependent Generalization: a Case Study on Overparameterized Linear Regression,

  Jing Xu, Jiaye Teng, Yang Yuan, Andrew C. Yao,

  NeurIPS 2023.

• On the Power of Foundation Models,

  Yang Yuan,

  ICML 2023. [arxiv]

• On Uni-Modal Feature Learning in Supervised Multi-Modal Learning,

  Chenzhuang Du, Jiaye Teng, Tingle Li, Yichen Liu, Tianyuan Yuan, Yue Wang, Yang Yuan, Hang Zhao,

  ICML 2023.

• Finding Generalization Measures by Contrasting Signal and Noise,

  Jiaye Teng, Bohang Zhang, Ruichen Li, Haowei He, Yequan Wang, Yan Tian, Yang Yuan,

  ICML 2023.

• Predictive Inference with Feature Conformal Prediction,

  Jiaye Teng*, Chuan Wen*, Dinghuai Zhang*, Yoshua Bengio, Yang Gao, Yang Yuan,

  ICLR 2023. [arxiv]

• Towards Understanding Generalization via Decomposing Excess Risk Dynamics,

  Jiaye Teng, Jianhao Ma, Yang Yuan,

  ICLR 2022. [arxiv]

• T-SCI: A Two-Stage Conformal Inference Algorithm with Guaranteed Coverage for Cox-MLP,

  Jiaye Teng, Zeren Tan, Yang Yuan,

  ICML 2021. [arxiv]

• A Stratified Approach to Robustness for Randomly Smoothed Classifiers,

  Guang-He Lee, Yang Yuan, Shiyu Chang, Tommi S. Jaakkola,

  NeurIPS 2019. [paper]

• Learning-Based Low-Rank Approximations,

  Piotr Indyk, Ali Vakilian, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  NeurIPS 2019. [arxiv]

• Asymmetric Valleys: Beyond Sharp and Flat Local Minima,

  Haowei He, Gao Huang, Yang Yuan,

  NeurIPS 2019 (spotlight). [arxiv]

• Expanding Holographic Embeddings for Knowledge Completion,

  Yexiang Xue, Yang Yuan, Zhitian Xu, Ashish Sabharwal,

  NIPS 2018. [paper]

• An Alternative View: When Does SGD Escape Local Minima?

  Robert Kleinberg, Yuanzhi Li, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  ICML 2018. [arxiv]

• Hyperparameter Optimization: A Spectral Approach,

  Elad Hazan, Adam Klivans, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  ICLR 2018. Previously appeared in NIPS DLTP Workshop 2017 (oral) [arxiv] [github]

• YATES: Rapid Prototyping for Traffic Engineering Systems,

  Praveen Kumar, Chris Yu, Yang Yuan, Nate Foster, Robert Kleinberg, Robert Soulé,

  SOSR 2018. [paper]

• Semi-Oblivious Traffic Engineering: The Road Not Taken,

  Praveen Kumar, Yang Yuan, Chris Yu, Nate Foster, Robert Kleinberg, Petr Lapukhov, Chiun Lin Lim, Robert Soulé,

  NSDI 2018. [arxiv]

• Convergence Analysis of Two-layer Neural Networks with ReLU Activation,

  Yuanzhi Li, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  NIPS 2017. [arxiv]

• Exploiting the Structure: Stochastic Gradient Methods Using Raw Clusters,

  Zeyuan Allen-Zhu*, Yang Yuan*, Karthik Sridharan, [* denotes equal contribution]

  NIPS 2016. [arxiv]

• Even Faster Accelerated Coordinate Descent Using Non-Uniform Sampling,

  Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Zheng Qu, Peter Richtárik, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  ICML 2016. [arxiv]

• Improved SVRG for Non-Strongly-Convex or Sum-of-Non-Convex Objectives,

  Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  ICML 2016. [arxiv] [Code for SVRG++ and other VR algorithms in Scala]

• Optimization Algorithms for Computational Geometry,

  Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Zhenyu Liao, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  ICALP 2016. [arxiv]

• Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Search,

  Piotr Indyk, Robert Kleinberg, Sepideh Mahabadi, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  SoCG 2016. [arxiv]

• Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit and Its Extension to Probabilistically Triggered Arms,

  Wei Chen, Yajun Wang, Yang Yuan, Qinshi Wang

  JMLR 2016. [arxiv]

  Conference version:

  Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit: General Framework, Results and Applications,

  Wei Chen, Yajun Wang, Yang Yuan [α-β ordering]

  ICML 2013. [pdf]

• Escaping From Saddle Points – Online Stochastic Gradient for Tensor Decomposition,

  Rong Ge, Furong Huang, Chi Jin, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  COLT 2015. [arxiv]

• Optimal Auctions vs. Anonymous Pricing,

  Saeed Alaei, Jason Hartline, Rad Niazadeh, Emmanouil Pountourakis, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 118, November 2019, Pages 494-510.

  Conference version: FOCS 2015. [arxiv]

• Simple and Near-Optimal Mechanisms for Market Intermediation,

  Rad Niazadeh, Yang Yuan, Robert Kleinberg,

  WINE 2014. [arxiv]

• On the Ratio of Revenue to Welfare in Single-Parameter Mechanism Design,

  Robert Kleinberg, Yang Yuan, [α-β ordering]

  EC 2013. [arxiv]

• Boreas: An Accurate and Scalable Token-based Approach to Code Clone Detection,

  Yang Yuan, Yao Guo,

  ASE 2012. [pdf]

• A Fast Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithm for Treewidth,

  Yang Yuan,

  ICTAI 2011. [pdf] [special thanks]

Manuscript

• An empirical study on evaluation metrics of generative adversarial networks,

  Qiantong Xu, Gao Huang, Yang Yuan, Chuan Guo, Yu Sun, Felix Wu, Kilian Weinberger,

  Manuscript 2018. [arxiv]