Yifeng Liu
Scholar

Yifeng Liu

Google Scholar ID: mFvOVkMAAAAJ
CS Dept. UCLA
LLMNLPComputational Biology
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
576
 
H-index
4
 
i10-index
3
 
Publications
8
 
Co-authors
3
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - TPA: Tensor Product is All You Need (NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight)
  • - RPG: On the Design of KL-Regularized Policy Gradient Algorithms for LLM Reasoning
  • - CodeGeeX: A Pre-Trained Model for Code Generation with Multilingual Benchmarking on HumanEval-X (KDD '23)
  • - MARS: Unleashing the Power of Variance Reduction for Training Large Models (ICML 2025)
  • - T-Rex: A novel retrosynthesis prediction architecture integrating textual and graphic information
  • - Capricorn: A multi-view diffusion model for enhancing Hi-C contact matrices (ISMB 2024 & Bioinformatics published)
Research Experience
  • - Student Research: TPA project, RPG project, CodeGeeX project
  • - Research Internship: Kimi 1.5 project (ByteDance AI Lab), VolcTrans System (WMT22 Multilingual Machine Translation Task), MARS project (ICML 2025)
  • - Visiting Student: T-Rex project, Capricorn project (Prof. Sheng Wang's lab, University of Washington)
Education
  • - Ph.D.: UCLA, advised by Prof. Quanquan Gu
  • - Undergraduate: Yao Class, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Zhilin Yang
  • - Visiting Student: University of Washington, advised by Prof. Sheng Wang
Background
  • NLP & AI4Science Researcher, currently a second-year Ph.D. student at UCLA, focusing on the optimization and architecture of Large Language Models.
Miscellany
  • Interests include transportation, geography, linguistics, and Vocaloid. Has studied accounting, economics, and finance, and has experience in quantitative trading, venture capital investment, and enterprise financial management.