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 )