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Hongyang Gao

9 accepted papers

2026

RESTRAIN: From Spurious Votes to Signals — Self-Training RL with Self-Penalization

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning with human-annotated data has boosted chain-of-thought reasoning in large reasoning models, but these gains come at high costs in labeled data while faltering on harder tasks. A natural next step is experience-driven learning, where models improve without curated labels by ada…

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2025

Global Convergence in Neural ODEs: Impact of Activation Functions

ICLR 2025oral

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) have been successful in various applications due to their continuous nature and parameter-sharing efficiency. However, these unique characteristics also introduce challenges in training, particularly with respect to gradient computation accuracy and conv…

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2023

Wide Neural Networks as Gaussian Processes: Lessons from Deep Equilibrium Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

Neural networks with wide layers have attracted significant attention due to their equivalence to Gaussian processes, enabling perfect fitting of training data while maintaining generalization performance, known as benign overfitting. However, existing results mainly focus on shallow or finite-depth…

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2022

A global convergence theory for deep ReLU implicit networks via over-parameterization

ICLR 2022poster

Implicit deep learning has received increasing attention recently due to the fact that it generalizes the recursive prediction rule of many commonly used neural network architectures. Its prediction rule is provided implicitly based on the solution of an equilibrium equation. Although a line of rece…

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2022

Molecular Representation Learning via Heterogeneous Motif Graph Neural Networks

ICML 2022spotlight

We consider feature representation learning problem of molecular graphs. Graph Neural Networks have been widely used in feature representation learning of molecular graphs. However, most existing methods deal with molecular graphs individually while neglecting their connections, such as motif-level…

2019

Graph U-Nets

ICML 2019oral

We consider the problem of representation learning for graph data. Convolutional neural networks can naturally operate on images, but have significant challenges in dealing with graph data. Given images are special cases of graphs with nodes lie on 2D lattices, graph embedding tasks have a natural c…

2018

ChannelNets: Compact and Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks via Channel-Wise Convolutions

NeurIPS 2018poster

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great capability of solving various artificial intelligence tasks. However, the increasing model size has raised challenges in employing them in resource-limited applications. In this work, we propose to compress deep models by using channel-wise convo…

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