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Yifan Wang

Ph.D Student Purdue University

About Me

I’m a second year Ph.D. student at Purdue University under the supervision of Prof. Ananth Grama. Prior to that, I completed my undergraduate studies in Electronic Information Engineering with a minor in Artificial intelligence at the University of Science and Technology of China. [CV]

Research interests:

  • Machine Learning, especially Biologically-inspired Machine Learning and Trustworthy Machine Learning
  • Complex Network and Evolutionary Game Theory

NEWS

  • Apr, 2023. “Learning Functional Distributions with Private Labels” is accepted by ICML2023!

Projects

Learning Functional Distributions with Private Labels

 We study the problem of learning functional distributions in the presence of noise. The functional is a map from features to distributions over a set of labels and is assumed to belong to a known class of hypotheses. Features are generated by a general random process and labels are sampled independently from the feature-dependent distributions and then passed through a noisy kernel. We consider online learning where at each time step a predictor attempts to predict the actual (label) distribution given only the features revealed so far and noisy labels in prior steps.
2023-05-23
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Experience

Captain, women's football team

College of Engineering Sciences, USTC
2019 - 2021
  • Represent school in provincial and national competitions, winning the championship in Anhui Province.
  • Organized weekly football trainings and team social events, and led team to participate in more than 15 football competitions per year.

Leader, debating team

College of Engineering Sciences, USTC ยท Country
2019 - 2020
  • Participate in more than ten debate competitions every year.
  • Coordinated debate competitions and training workshops for first-year students.
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