A CS Ph.D student at UCLA, focusing on machine learning.
Mastery itself is the prize of the venture.
I was born and raised in Nanjing, a historical yet dynamic city along Yangtze river in China. I am very fortunate to be a member of the Statistical and Relational Artificial Intelligence (StarAI) Lab, led by Guy Van den Broeck. My research passion is on "learning and making decision under structured environments with uncertainty". To this end, I am dedicated to making contributions on two frontiers. The first one emphasizes on how to make good decisions; we develop and leverage cutting-edge reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to achieve this. The other frontier is focused on how to model the structure, domain knowledge and uncertainty embedded in the environment; we invent novel probabilistic graphical models and differentiable loss functions for that.
Before joining UCLA, I received my Bachelor degree from Franklin & Marshall College, working under the advisement of Erin Talvitie.
I am on the job market this year. If you are interested, please check out my research statement .
Anji Liu, Yitao Liang, Ji Liu, Guy Van den Broeck, Jianshu Chen
Preprint, 2021
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Meihua Dang, Pasha Khosravi, Yitao Liang, Antonio Vergari, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Demo Track), 2020
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Albert Zhao, Tong He, Yitao Liang, Haibin Huang, Guy Van den Broeck, Stefano Soatto
Conference on Robot Learning, 2020
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Pasha Khosravi, Antonio Vergari, Yoojung Choi, Yitao Liang, Guy Van den Broeck
The Art of Learning with Missing Values Workshop at ICML (Artemiss), 2020
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Anji Liu, Yitao Liang, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of AAMAS, 2020
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Pasha Khosravi, YooJung Choi, Yitao Liang, Antonio Vergari, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of NeurIPS, 2019
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Pasha Khosravi, Yitao Liang, YooJung Choi, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of IJCAI, 2019
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Yitao Liang, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of AAAI, 2019
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Jason Gauci, Edoardo Conti, Yitao Liang, Kittipat Virochsiri, Yuchen He, Zachary Kaden, Vivek Narayanan, Xiaohui Ye
Proceedings of RL for Real Life Workshop in ICML, 2019
Best Paper (6.6%)
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Zehong Hu, Yitao Liang, Jie Zhang, Zhao Li, Yang Liu
Proceedings of NeurIPS, 2018
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Jingyi Xu, Zilu Zhang, Tal Friedman, Yitao Liang, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of ICML, 2018
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Jingyi Xu, Zilu Zhang, Tal Friedman, Yitao Liang, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of LLD Workshop in NIPS, 2017
Best Paper Runner-up (6.5%)
Yitao Liang, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings XAI Workshop in IJCAI, 2017
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Yitao Liang, Jessa Bekker, Guy Van den Broeck
Proceedings of UAI, 2017
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Yitao Liang, Marlos C. Machado, Erik Talvitie, Michael Bowling
Published in AAMAS, 2016
Best Paper Nomination (0.7%)
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