Yifei (Alvin) Ming
Contact: yifei [dot] ming [at] salesforce [dot] com
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Hi! I am a research scientist at Salesforce AI Research. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison advised by Prof. Sharon Li. I am broadly interested in reliable machine learning that aligns with human values, especially in the era of multi-modal foundation models. A central theme that continually resonates with me is: How can we foster innovative algorithms and deeper understanding to ensure that our machine learning systems perform reliably in the real world?
News
05/2024 | Starting a new position as a Research Scientist at Salesforce! Super excited to explore the frontiers of LLM, VLM, reliable ML, among other fascinating topics. |
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05/2024 |
Defended my Ph.D. thesis on Reliable Foundation Models in the Open World ![]() |
01/2024 |
Our paper Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Task Adaptation for Vision-Language Models is accepted by ICML 2024. ![]() |
01/2024 |
Our paper Provable Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Hypersphere is accepted by ICLR 2024. ![]() |
06/2023 | Research intern at Microsoft Research working on spatial and mathematical reasoning for vision-language models. |
Publications
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ICMLUnderstanding Retrieval-Augmented Task Adaptation for Vision-Language ModelsIn International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024
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ICLRProvable Out-of-Distribution Generalization in HypersphereIn International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024
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CPAL
Oral Domain Generalization via Nuclear Norm RegularizationIn Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) 2023 -
EMNLPA Critical Analysis of Document Out-of-Distribution DetectionIn Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings) 2023
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IJCVHow Does Fine-Tuning Impact Out-of-Distribution Detection for Vision-Language Models?In International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2023
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NeurIPSDomain Generalization with Nuclear Norm RegularizationIn Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’W) DistShift Workshop 2022
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ICMLAre Vision Transformers Robust to Spurious Correlations?In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’W), SCIS Workshop 2022