Ming Yin
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my0049@princeton.edu
Postdoctoral Associate at Princeton ECE [Hosted by Dr. Mengdi Wang]
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, Computer Science
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, Statistics and Applied Probability
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Mathematics
I have also spent time at Amazon AWS AI Research & Education during the summers. My research focuses on understanding the foundations of sequential decision-making and applying them to real-world challenges in AI and science. For an overview, visit my Research page! I also share insights and summarize key ideas from my research, along with topics of personal interest, on the Blog page. For a full list of my publications, check out the Publications page. I am currently on the academic job market 2024-2025.
In my spare time, I enjoy doing sports (mostly basketball and soccer), traveling, and hiking with friends and family. Besides, I like listening to classical music and playing piano slightly.
My personal philosophy: be kind and strive to make the world a little bit better :)
News
| Dec 12, 2024 | Invited as an Area Chair for ICML-25. |
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| Oct 28, 2024 | I will give a tutorial at AAAI-25 on “Essential Theories and Techniques for Offline RL”. |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Happy to serve as the Workshop&Tutorial Co-chair for ACM UMAP, Aera Chair for AISTATS-25. |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Four papers + One Dataset paper accetped to NeurIPS-24  |
| Sep 18, 2024 | Invited to talk at Young Research Workshop at Cornell ORIE! |
| Sep 1, 2024 | A new blog explaining Flow macthing for Generative AI! |
| May 6, 2024 | Happy to serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS-24. |
| May 1, 2024 | Two papers accepted to icml 2024! |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Two papers accepted to (ISIT24) IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory! |
| Mar 20, 2024 | '’General Function Approximation in Nonstationary RL’’ accepted to IEEE Journal of JSAIT! |
| Feb 28, 2024 | MMMU has been selected as CVPR-24 Oral & Best Paper Finalist (top 0.2%)! |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Happy to review for the first Conference on Language Modeling. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Releasing MMMU, a Massive Multimodal Understand&Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI! |
| Oct 7, 2023 | Invited review for Journal of ASA and Conference on Learning Theory [COLT-24]. |
| Oct 7, 2023 | TheoremQA accepted to EMNLP-23 main |
| Sep 21, 2023 | Posterior Sampling with Delayed Feedback RL accpeted to NeurIPS-23 |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Invited to join Young Researchers Workshop at Cornell University Oct 1 - Oct 3. |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Happy to be part of the PC for MATH-AI WS, AI4science WS and review for EMNLP23, ICLR24. |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Invited review for Machine Learning by Springer. |
| Jun 2, 2023 | Excited to release TheoremQA to eval LLMs’ capabilities in Math, Physics, EE&CS and Finance! |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Happy to serve for IL with Implicit Human Feedback Workshop @ ICML-23 as part of the PC. |
| May 16, 2023 | Invited for a community committee choice session talk at 2023 Informs Annual Meeting. |
| May 16, 2023 | Invited to join the Review Board for ACM/IMS Journal of Data Science (3-year appointment). |
| May 15, 2023 | Happy to serve for the Neural Compression Workshop @ ICML-23 as part of the PC. |
| May 8, 2023 | The new non-uniform misspecified linear bandit paper accepted to UAI-23! |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Two papers accepted to icml 2023! |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Happy to serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS-23. |
| Feb 15, 2023 | Excited to receive Graduation Day Award at ITA-23 Thanks for recognizing my work! |
| Jan 22, 2023 | Parametric Differentiable Offline RL paper accpted to ICLR-23! |
| Jan 20, 2023 | I will participate in the ITA2023 in SD! Looking forward to meeting old and new friends! |
| Jan 18, 2023 | Happy to be a reviewer for ICML-2023, UAI-2023. |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Instance-dependent Offline RL paper accpted to AAAI-23! Congrats to my JHU coauthors |
| Sep 16, 2022 | Had a wonderful summer at AWS AI with Rasool Fakoor (and also Alex Smola)  |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Happy to be part of the PC for the 3rd (Launchpad) Offline RL Workshop at NeurIPS 2022. |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Happy to be a reviewer for ICLR-2023, AAAI-23 and AISTATS-23. |
| May 15, 2022 | Low-switching RL paper accepted to ICML22 and Offline SSP paper accepted to UAI22! |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Find this thought-provoking blog by John Schulman! Great attitude!! |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Happy to be a reviewer for NeurIPS-2022. |
| Feb 13, 2022 | Happy to review for the new venue Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)! |
| Jan 21, 2022 | Optimal Offline Linear Representation RL paper accepted to ICLR-2022! |
| Dec 19, 2021 | Happy to be a reviewer for ICML-2022. |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Three papers accepted to neurips 2021! |
| Aug 20, 2021 | I participate in the 2nd Offline DeepRL workshop (NeurIPS 21) as part of the PC. |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Happy to be a reviewer for ICLR-2022, AISTATS-2022. |
| Jun 25, 2021 | There is a new blog to explain the new Optimal Uniform OPE paper! |
| May 13, 2021 | I participate in the RL theory workshop (ICML 21) as part of the PC. |
| Apr 5, 2021 | Happy to be a reviewer for NeurIPS-2021. |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Oral acceptance of Uniform OPE paper to AISTATS-2021! |
Selected publications
- NeurIPSA Theoretical Perspective for Speculative Decoding AlgorithmAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
- NeurIPSNetworkGym: Reinforcement Learning Environments for Multi-Access Traffic Management in Network SimulationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Datasets and Benchmarks Track), 2024
- NeurIPSTransfer Q*: Principled Decoding for LLM AlignmentAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
