Zhiyong Yang

Associate Professor (Tenure-track Assistant Professor) School of Computer Science and Technology, UCAS.

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Hi! I’m Zhiyong Yang(杨智勇), an Associate Professor (Tenure-track Assistant Professor) with the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I got my Ph.D. degree from Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS) in 2021, supervised by Prof. Qingming Huang (IEEE Fellow). I am also lucky to have opportunities to collaborate with Qianqian Xu (Professor at ICT CAS), Xiaochun Cao (Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen Compus, China), Yuan Yao (Professor at HKUST), Jiechao Xiong (Research Fellow at Tencent Lab AI Lab), Yuan Su (Senior Researcher at Microsoft Quantum), Ke Ma (postdoc at UCAS), Yangbangyan Jiang (Ph.D. Student at IIE, CAS), and Jingcheng Lu (Computer Science graduate student at UC Irvine).

I’m especially interested in several fundamental problems in machine learning:

I’m always looking for highly self-motivated PhD/Master students!

News

Nov 13, 2024 Our team (Matrix666) won the 1st place in NeurIPS 2024 Competition for LLM and Agent Safety (CLAS, Backdoor Trigger Recovery Track).
Sep 26, 2024 Two papers have been accepted by NeurIPS 2024
Aug 20, 2024 I’ll be serving as an Area Chair for ICLR 2025
Jun 25, 2024 One paper has been accepted by IJCV
Jun 9, 2024 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
May 7, 2024 I’ll be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024
May 2, 2024 Three papers have been accepted by ICML 2024
Oct 20, 2023 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
Sep 23, 2023 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
Sep 22, 2023 3 papers have been accepted by NeurIPS 2023, including 1 spotlight paper
Aug 4, 2023 Two papers have been accepted by T-PAMI 2023
Jul 18, 2023 One paper has been accepted by ICCV 2023
May 23, 2023 One paper has been accepted by ICML 2023
Jan 3, 2023 I’m honored to obtain CCF Doctoral Disseration Award
Sep 19, 2022 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
Sep 15, 2022 5 papers have been accepted by NeurIPS 2022
Sep 5, 2022 I’m honored to obtain “Distinguished Dissertation Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (recognizing 100 papers)”
Aug 16, 2022 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
Jul 15, 2022 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
Jul 7, 2022 One paper has been accepted by ICML 2022
Nov 22, 2021 One paper has been accepted by T-PAMI
Nov 15, 2021 Two papers have been accepted by AAAI 2022
Aug 7, 2021 One paper has been accepted by NeurIPS 2021
Jul 22, 2021 Two papers have been accepted by T-PAMI
Jul 15, 2021 Three papers have been accepted by ACM MM 2021

Awards

Nov 13, 2024 1st place (Matrix666)@ NeurIPS 2024 Competition for LLM and Agent Safety (CLAS, Backdoor Trigger Recovery Track)
Sep 1, 2023 Asian Trustworthy Machine Learning (ATML) Fellowship
Jan 3, 2023 CCF Doctoral Disseration Award (2022 CCF优秀博士学位论文激励计划 原CCF优博)
Sep 5, 2022 Distinguished Dissertation Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (recognizing 100 papers) (中科院百篇优博论文)
Jul 22, 2021 Top 100 Baidu AI Chinese Rising Stars. (百度AI华人新星百强榜单)
Jul 22, 2021 Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program(博士后创新人才支持计划)
Jul 22, 2020 Top-10% NeurIPS Reviwer. (Top-10% NeurIPS审稿人)
Jul 22, 2020 CAS Presidential Scholarship (Special Prize) (中科院院长特别奖) 62/5000
Jul 22, 2019 Top-20 Nomination of Baidu Scholarship (only awarded for 20 candidates over the Chinese students over the world ). (百度全球20强)
Jul 22, 2019 Director Special Scholarship Award, IIE, CAS. (中科院信息工程研究所所长特别奖)
Jul 22, 2019 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. (国家奖学金)
Jul 22, 2018 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. (国家奖学金)
Jul 22, 2018 Director Special Scholarship Award, IIE, CAS. (中科院信息工程研究所所长特别奖)
Jul 22, 2017 Outstanding graduate thesis Award of University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学优秀硕士学位论文)
Jul 22, 2016 Academic Star, School of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学计算机与通信学院学术之星称号)
Jul 22, 2016 Outstanding Graduate of University of Science and Technology Beijing. (北京科技大学优秀毕业生)
Jul 22, 2015 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. (国家奖学金)

Services

Journal
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP): Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI): Reviewer
Conference
Area Chair (2025)
Area Chair (2024)
PC Member (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
PC Member (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
PC Member (2021, 2023, 2024)
PC Member (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
PC Member (2022, 2023, 2024)
Senior PC Member (2021)

Selected Papers

    1. AUC-Oriented Domain Adaptation: From Theory to Algorithm
      Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, and 4 more authors
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,  2023
    2. Revisiting AUC-oriented Adversarial Training with Loss-Agnostic Perturbations
      Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu, Wenzheng Hou, and 4 more authors
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,  2023
    1. Optimizing Two-way Partial AUC with an End-to-end Framework
      Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, and 3 more authors
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,  2022
    1. Learning with Multiclass AUC: Theory and Algorithms
      Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, and 2 more authors
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,  2021
    1. Task-Feature Collaborative Learning with Application to Personalized Attribute Prediction
      Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu, Xiaochun Cao, and 1 more author
      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,  2020
                                                                                                                                                                                                1. When All We Need is a Piece of the Pie: A Generic Framework for Optimizing Two-way Partial AUC
                                                                                                                                                                                                  Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, and 3 more authors
                                                                                                                                                                                                  International Conference on Machine Learning,  2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                1. Size-invariance Matters: Rethinking Metrics and Losses for Imbalanced Multi-object Salient Object Detection
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Feiran Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, and 4 more authors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  International Conference on Machine Learning,  2024
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              1. The Minority Matters: A Diversity-Promoting Collaborative Metric Learning Algorithm
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Shilong Bao, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang , and 3 more authors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems,  2022
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. A Unified Generalization Analysis of Re-Weighting and Logit-Adjustment for Imbalanced Learning
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Zitai Wang, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang , and 3 more authors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems,  2023
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1. OpenAUC: Towards AUC-Oriented Open-Set Recognition
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Zitai Wang, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang , and 3 more authors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems,  2022
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Yangbangyan Jiang, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang , and 2 more authors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems,  2019