Yifei Wang
Scholar

Yifei Wang

Google Scholar ID: -CLy6YsAAAAJ
MIT
Machine LearningSelf-supervised LearningLanguage ModelsSparsitySafety
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Citations
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Four papers accepted at NeurIPS 2025, including RL-driven graph reasoning for LLMs (G1), signed graph propagation, hierarchical diffusion LMs, and ranking-based LLM decoding.
  • Three papers accepted at ICML 2025, including an oral presentation (top 1%) introducing Contrastive Sparse Representations (CSR) for highly efficient embedding compression.
  • Best Paper Runner-Up Award at ICLR 2025 Workshop on Reasoning and Planning for LLMs for the paper 'When More is Less: Understanding Chain-of-Thought Length in LLMs'.
  • ICML 2025 paper 'On the Emergence of Position Bias in Transformers' featured by MIT News for theoretically identifying root causes of position bias in Transformers.
  • Serves as Area Chair for ICLR and reviewer for ICML, NeurIPS, JMLR, PNAS.
  • Recent work has received 4 best paper awards and has been featured by MIT News, CSAIL News, and Anthropic.