Yang Li (郦洋)

Master Student @ ReThinkLab, SJTU.

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Mail: yanglily@sjtu.edu.cn

City: Shanghai, 200240

About

I am now a first-yeat PhD student majoring in Computer Science at School of Artificial Intelligence from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Weinan E and Prof. Junchi Yan. I achieved the Bachelor degree from School of Computer Science at SJTU, and transitioned directly from the Master’s program of Department of Computer Science and Engineering to the current PhD program. My research interests lie in machine learning, especially deep generative models and combinatorial optimization on graphs.

I serve as the reviewer for top-tier ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.) and journals (TPAMI, etc.).

Academic Performance

Undergraduate period:

  • GPA: 91.03/100 (or 3.93/4.3), Rank: 3/129 (top 2.3%)
  • Courses: 76.7% above A, 45.0% above A+

Postgraduate period:

  • GPA: 3.83/4.0
  • Courses: 90.0% at A level

Selected Awards

  • Undergraduate National Scholarship (top 0.2% in the nation)
  • Graduate National Scholarship (top 1% in CS Dept.)
  • Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai (top 3%)
  • NeurIPS 2024 Top Reviewer Award (top 10%)
  • Huawei Fellowship (top 5%)
  • HyperGryph Fellowship (top 3%)
  • 1st-Class Academic Excellence Scholarship (top 1%)
  • Merit Student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • 1st-Class Academic Scholarship for Graduate Students
  • Special Prize for Social Practice of SJTU
  • First Prize for Social Practice of SJTU
  • Advanced Individuals in Social Practice of SJTU

News

Oct 1, 2025 Four paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
May 1, 2025 Two paper was accepted by ICML 2025.
Jan 23, 2025 Two paper was accepted by ICLR 2025.
Sep 26, 2024 Two paper was accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
May 2, 2024 One paper was accepted by ICML 2024 as Spotlight.

Publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Generation as Search Operator for Test-Time Scaling of Diffusion-based Combinatorial Optimization
    Yang Li, Lvda Chen, Haonan Wang, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  2. NeurIPS
    StruDiCO: Structured Denoising Diffusion with Gradient-free Inference-stage Boosting for Memory and Time Efficient Combinatorial Optimization
    Yu Wang, Yang Li, Junchi Yan, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  3. NeurIPS
    ML4CO-Bench-101: Benchmark Machine Learning for Classic Combinatorial Problems on Graphs
    Jiale Ma, Wenzheng Pan, Yang Li, and 1 more author
    In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2025
  4. ICML
    Generative Modeling Reinvents Supervised Learning: Label Repurposing with Predictive Consistency Learning
    Yang Li, Jiale Ma, Yebin Yang, and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
  5. ICML
    COExpander: Adaptive Solution Expansion for Combinatorial Optimization
    Jiale Ma, Wenzheng Pan, Yang Li, and 1 more author
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
  6. ICLR
    Unify ML4TSP: Drawing Methodological Principles for TSP and Beyond from Streamlined Design Space of Learning and Search
    Yang Li, Jiale Ma, Wenzheng Pan, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  7. ICLR
    UniCO: On Unified Combinatorial Optimization via Problem Reduction to Matrix-Encoded General TSP
    Wenzheng Pan, Hao Xiong, Jiale Ma, and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  8. NeurIPS
    Fast T2T: Optimization Consistency Speeds Up Diffusion-Based Training-to-Testing Solving for Combinatorial Optimization
    Yang Li*, Jinpei Guo*, Runzhong Wang, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  9. NeurIPS
    Learning Plaintext-Ciphertext Cryptographic Problems via ANF-based SAT Instance Representation
    Xinhao Zheng, Yang Li, Cunxin Fan, and 3 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  10. NeurIPS
    Benchmarking PtO and PnO Methods in the Predictive Combinatorial Optimization Regime
    Haoyu Geng, Hang Ruan, Runzhong Wang, and 4 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  11. 中国科学
    Learning to Solve Combinatorial Optimization under Positive Linear Constraints via Non-Autoregressive Neural Networks
    Runzhong Wang, Yang Li, Junchi Yan, and 1 more author
    SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis 2024, 2024
  12. ICMLSpotlight (3.5%)
    ACM-MILP: Adaptive Constraint Modification via Grouping and Selection for Hardness-Preserving MILP Instance Generation
    Ziao Guo, Yang Li, Chang Liu, and 2 more authors
    In The Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
  13. ICLR
    MixSATGEN: Learning Graph Mixing for SAT Instance Generation
    Xinyan Chen*, Yang Li*, Runzhong Wang, and 1 more author
    In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024
  14. arXiv
    Molecule Generation for Drug Design: a Graph Learning Perspective
    Nianzu Yang, Huaijin Wu, Kaipeng Zeng, and 2 more authors
    In Fundamental Research, 2024
  15. NeurIPS
    T2T: From Distribution Learning in Training to Gradient Search in Testing for Combinatorial Optimization
    Yang Li, Jinpei Guo, Runzhong Wang, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
  16. IJCAI
    IID-GAN: an IID Sampling Perspective for Regularizing Mode Collapse
    Yang Li*, Liangliang Shi*, and Junchi Yan
    In Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
  17. NeurIPSSpotlight (5%)
    Improving Generative Adversarial Networks via Adversarial Learning in Latent Space
    Yang Li, Yichuan Mo, Liangliang Shi, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022