| 2026 | ACL | Why LLM Safety Guardrails Collapse After Fine-tuning: A Similarity Analysis Between Alignment and Fine-tuning Datasets. | Lei Hsiung, Tianyu Pang, Yung-Chen Tang, Linyue Song, Tsung-Yi Ho, Pin-Yu Chen, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2026 | ACL | HTMuon: Improving Muon via Heavy-Tailed Spectral Correction. | Tianyu Pang, Yujie Fang, Zihang Liu, Shenyang Deng, Lei Hsiung, Shuhua Yu, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2026 | ISIT | Depth, Not Data: An Analysis of Hessian Spectral Bifurcation. | Shenyang Deng, Boyao Liao, Zhuoli Ouyang, Tianyu Pang, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2025 | ACL | Spectral Insights into Data-Oblivious Critical Layers in Large Language Models. | Xuyuan Liu, Lei Hsiung, Yaoqing Yang, Yujun Yan |
| 2025 | ICLR | Mitigating Memorization in Language Models. | Mansi Sakarvadia, Aswathy Ajith, Arham Mushtaq Khan, Nathaniel C. Hudson, Caleb Geniesse, Kyle Chard, Yaoqing Yang, Ian T. Foster, Michael W. Mahoney |
| 2025 | ICML | Eigenspectrum Analysis of Neural Networks without Aspect Ratio Bias. | Yuanzhe Hu, Kinshuk Goel, Vlad Killiakov, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2025 | ICML | LIFT the Veil for the Truth: Principal Weights Emerge after Rank Reduction for Reasoning-Focused Supervised Fine-Tuning. | Zihang Liu, Tianyu Pang, Oleg Balabanov, Chaoqun Yang, Tianjin Huang, Lu Yin, Yaoqing Yang, Shiwei Liu |
| 2025 | WWW | Towards Agentic AI for Science: Hypothesis Generation, Comprehension, Quantification, and Validation. | Lifu Huang, Danai Koutra, Adithya Kulkarni, Temiloluwa Prioleau, Qingyun Wu, Yujun Yan, Yaoqing Yang, James Zou, Dawei Zhou |
| 2024 | EMNLP | Model Balancing Helps Low-data Training and Fine-tuning. | Zihang Liu, Yuanzhe Hu, Tianyu Pang, Yefan Zhou, Pu Ren, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2024 | EMNLP | AlphaLoRA: Assigning LoRA Experts Based on Layer Training Quality. | Peijun Qing, Chongyang Gao, Yefan Zhou, Xingjian Diao, Yaoqing Yang, Soroush Vosoughi |
| 2024 | ICLR | Teach LLMs to Phish: Stealing Private Information from Language Models. | Ashwinee Panda, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Zhengming Zhang, Yaoqing Yang, Prateek Mittal |
| 2024 | ICML | EvoluNet: Advancing Dynamic Non-IID Transfer Learning on Graphs. | Haohui Wang, Yuzhen Mao, Yujun Yan, Yaoqing Yang, Jianhui Sun, Kevin Choi, Balaji Veeramani, Alison Hu, Edward Bowen, Tyler Cody, Dawei Zhou |
| 2024 | ICML | MD tree: a model-diagnostic tree grown on loss landscape. | Yefan Zhou, Jianlong Chen, Qinxue Cao, Konstantin Schrholt, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2023 | ICML | A Three-regime Model of Network Pruning. | Yefan Zhou, Yaoqing Yang, Arin Chang, Michael W. Mahoney |
| 2023 | KDD | Test Accuracy vs. Generalization Gap: Model Selection in NLP without Accessing Training or Testing Data. | Yaoqing Yang, Ryan Theisen, Liam Hodgkinson, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Kannan Ramchandran, Charles H. Martin, Michael W. Mahoney |
| 2022 | CVPR | Self-supervised Spatial Reasoning on Multi-View Line Drawings. | Siyuan Xiang, Anbang Yang, Yanfei Xue, Yaoqing Yang, Chen Feng |
| 2022 | ICDM | Two Sides of the Same Coin: Heterophily and Oversmoothing in Graph Convolutional Neural Networks. | Yujun Yan, Milad Hashemi, Kevin Swersky, Yaoqing Yang, Danai Koutra |
| 2022 | ICML | Neurotoxin: Durable Backdoors in Federated Learning. | Zhengming Zhang, Ashwinee Panda, Linyue Song, Yaoqing Yang, Michael W. Mahoney, Prateek Mittal, Kannan Ramchandran, Joseph Gonzalez |
| 2022 | WWW | Augmentations in Graph Contrastive Learning: Current Methodological Flaws & Towards Better Practices. | Puja Trivedi, Ekdeep Singh Lubana, Yujun Yan, Yaoqing Yang, Danai Koutra |
| 2020 | ACSSC | Robust Class Parallelism - Error Resilient Parallel Inference with Low Communication Cost. | Yaoqing Yang, Jichan Chung, Guanhua Wang, Vipul Gupta, Adarsh Karnati, Kenan Jiang, Ion Stoica, Joseph Gonzalez, Kannan Ramchandran |
| 2020 | EuroPar | 3D Coded SUMMA: Communication-Efficient and Robust Parallel Matrix Multiplication. | Haewon Jeong, Yaoqing Yang, Vipul Gupta, Christian Engelmann, Tze Meng Low, Viveck R. Cadambe, Kannan Ramchandran, Pulkit Grover |
| 2020 | ICDCS | Serverless Straggler Mitigation using Error-Correcting Codes. | Vipul Gupta, Dominic Carrano, Yaoqing Yang, Vaishaal Shankar, Thomas A. Courtade, Kannan Ramchandran |
| 2019 | ISIT | Systematic Matrix Multiplication Codes. | Haewon Jeong, Yaoqing Yang, Pulkit Grover |
| 2019 | ISIT | Coded Elastic Computing. | Yaoqing Yang, Matteo Interlandi, Pulkit Grover, Soummya Kar, Saeed Amizadeh, Markus Weimer |
| 2018 | CVPR | Mining Point Cloud Local Structures by Kernel Correlation and Graph Pooling. | Yiru Shen, Chen Feng, Yaoqing Yang, Dong Tian |
| 2018 | CVPR | FoldingNet: Point Cloud Auto-Encoder via Deep Grid Deformation. | Yaoqing Yang, Chen Feng, Yiru Shen, Dong Tian |
| 2018 | ISIT | Coding for a Single Sparse Inverse Problem. | Yaoqing Yang, Pulkit Grover, Soummya Kar |
| 2017 | ICASSP | Fast path localization on graphs via multiscale Viterbi decoding. | Yaoqing Yang, Siheng Chen, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Pulkit Grover, Soummya Kar, Jelena Kovacevic |
| 2016 | ISIT | Coding for lossy function computation: Analyzing sequential function computation with distortion accumulation. | Yaoqing Yang, Pulkit Grover, Soummya Kar |
| 2016 | ISIT | Computing linear transforms with unreliable components. | Yaoqing Yang, Pulkit Grover, Soummya Kar |
| 2016 | ISIT | Energy efficient distributed coding for data collection in a noisy sparse network. | Yaoqing Yang, Soummya Kar, Pulkit Grover |
| 2016 | IWCMC | A resource-efficient approach to steganography in mobile systems. | Prabhat Dahal, Dongming Peng, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif |
| 2014 | IWCMC | Steganography attack based on Discrete Spring Transform and image geometrization. | Qilin Qi, Aaron Sharp, Yaoqing Yang, Dongming Peng, Hamid Sharif |
| 2013 | IWCMC | A novel active warden steganographic attack for next-generation steganography. | Aaron Sharp, Qilin Qi, Yaoqing Yang, Dongming Peng, Hamid Sharif |
| 2013 | PIMRC | An active audio steganography attacking method using discrete spring transform. | Qilin Qi, Aaron Sharp, Dongming Peng, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif |
| 2013 | WCNC | Channel allocation and multicast routing in cognitive radio networks. | Zhihui Shu, Yi Qian, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif |
| 2013 | WCNC | Xing-zone bridge construction for multi-hop cognitive radio networks with channel bonding. | Feng Ye, Yi Qian, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif |
| 2013 | WiOpt | Distributed flow scheduling in an unknown environment. | Yaoqing Yang, Keqin Liu, Pingyi Fan |
| 2012 | GLOBECOM | Propagation measurements and analysis of fading behavior for high speed rail cutting scenarios. | Ruisi He, Zhangdui Zhong, Bo Ai, Jianwen Ding, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2012 | GLOBECOM | Network coding-aware channel allocation and routing in cognitive radio networks. | Zhihui Shu, Jiazhen Zhou, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif, Yi Qian |
| 2012 | GLOBECOM | Constructing backbone of a multi-hop cognitive radio network with channel bonding. | Feng Ye, Jiazhen Zhou, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif, Yi Qian |
| 2011 | GLOBECOM | Impact of Interference on Secrecy Capacity in a Cognitive Radio Network. | Zhihui Shu, Yaoqing Yang, Yi Qian, Rose Qingyang Hu |
| 2009 | GLOBECOM | An Adaptive Approach to Estimation and Compensation of Frequency-Dependent I/Q Imbalances in MIMO-OFDM Systems. | Shichuan Ma, Deborah D. Duran, Hamid Sharif, Yaoqing Yang |
| 2008 | GLOBECOM | Position Based Unequal Error Protection for Image Transmission with Energy Constraint over Multirate XPD MIMO Sensor Networks. | Wei Wang, Dongming Peng, Honggang Wang, Yaoqing Yang, Hamid Sharif, Hsiao-Hwa Chen |