About me
I am Yifan Zhang, currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Machine Learning at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. I have the distinct honor of being mentored by Prof. Yang Yuan and Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. Previously, I had the privilege of undertaking my undergraduate studies at Yuanpei College of Peking University.
Research Topics
- Foundation Models (Language Models)
- Representation Learning
- Deep Learning
Selected Publications
Cumulative Reasoning with Large Language Models
Yifan Zhang*, Jingqin Yang*, Yang Yuan, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao.Reasoning Framework
Github repo: https://github.com/iiis-ai/cumulative-reasoning
Information Flow in Self-Supervised Learning
Zhiquan Tan, Jingqin Yang, Weiran Huang, Yang Yuan†, Yifan Zhang†.- Quantum Information for SSL (II) [code]
Matrix Information Theory for Self-Supervised Learning
Yifan Zhang*, Zhiquan Tan*, Jingqin Yang*, Weiran Huang, Yang Yuan.- Quantum Information for SSL (I) [code]
Contrastive Learning Is Spectral Clustering On Similarity Graph
Zhiquan Tan*, Yifan Zhang*, Jingqin Yang*, Yang Yuan.- Contrastive Learning Is Spectral Clustering [code]
Trade-off Between Efficiency and Consistency for Removal-based Explanations
Yifan Zhang*, Haowei He*, Zhiquan Tan, Yang Yuan.
37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)- Impossible Trinity in Explainable AI [code]
( * denotes equal contribution, † denotes corresponding authors )