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Junmei Yang

6 accepted papers

2026

Don't Forget Its Variance! The Minimum Path Variance Principle for Accurate and Stable Score-Based Models

ICLR 2026poster

Score-based methods are powerful across machine learning, but they face a paradox: theoretically path-independent, yet practically path-dependent. We resolve this by proving that practical training objectives differ from the ideal, ground-truth objective by a crucial, overlooked term: the path var…

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2026

Towards Disentangled Preference Optimization Dynamics

ICML 2026poster

Preference optimization is widely used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, yet many margin-based objectives often suppress the chosen response together with the rejected one, and no general mechanism exists to prevent this across objectives. We bridge this gap by presenting…

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2025

Bayesian Gaussian Process ODEs via Double Normalizing Flows

AISTATS 2025poster

Gaussian processes have been used to model the vector field of continuous dynamical systems, which are characterized by a probabilistic ordinary differential equation (GP-ODE). Bayesian inference for these models has been extensively studied and applied in tasks such as time series prediction. Howev…

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2025

Dequantified Diffusion-Schrödinger Bridge for Density Ratio Estimation

ICML 2025poster

Density ratio estimation is fundamental to tasks involving f-divergences, yet existing methods often fail under significantly different distributions or inadequately overlapping supports --- the density-chasm and the support-chasm problems. Additionally, prior approaches yield divergent time scores…

2025

Variational Learning of Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models through Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling

UAI 2025

Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models (GPLVMs) have become increasingly popular for unsupervised tasks such as dimensionality reduction and missing data recovery due to their flexibility and non-linear nature. An importance-weighted version of the Bayesian GPLVMs has been proposed to obtain a tigh

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