Zirui Yan
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PhD student |
About me
I am Ph.D. student in Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), working under the supervision of Prof. Ali Tajer. Before that, I graduated from University of Science and Technology of China.
Research
My current research topic is causal bandit (see github repo for brief summary) and the causality in Large Language models (LLM). I also have broad interests in the application of bandit in federated learning.
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic institute
Ph.D in Computer & System Engineering, 2021.08-present
Advisor: Prof. Ali TajerUniversity of Science and Technology of China
B.Sc. Statistics, 2016.09-2020.05
B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology, 2018.02-2020.05
News
09/2024: Our paper “Linear Causal Bandits: Unknown Graph and Soft Interventions” was accepted by NeurIPS 2024
08/2024: Finished a three-month internship at Yahoo! Research.
06/2024: Our paper “Improved Bound for Robust Causal Bandits with Linear Models” was accepted by ISIT 2024
01/2024: Our paper “Nonlinear Causal Bandits: General Causal Models and Interventions” will be appear in AISTATS 2024.
12/2023: I served as volunteer at NeurIPS 2023.
11/2023: Our paper “Robust Causal Bandits for Linear Models” is now on arXiv.
08/2023: Finished a three-month internship at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
03/2023: Our paper “Optimizing Parameter Mixing under Constrained Communications in Parallel Federated Learning” was accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.