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Ruicong Yao

5 accepted papers

2026

Identifiable Nonlinear Differentiable Causal Discovery via Independence and Adaptive Group Sparsity

ICML 2026poster

Differentiable approaches to causal discovery have shown promise in learning DAG structures via continuous optimization, but their theoretical guarantees are largely restricted to models with homoscedastic noise or known noise distribution. In particular, existing methods based on mean squared error…

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2025

Differentiable Causal Structure Learning with Identifiability by NOTIME

AISTATS 2025poster

The introduction of the NOTEARS algorithm resulted in a wave of research on differentiable Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) learning. Differentiable DAG learning transforms the combinatorial problem of identifying the DAG underlying a Structural Causal Model (SCM) into a constrained continuous optimizat…

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2024

Alleviating Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models through Sampling with Shifted Time Steps

ICLR 2024poster

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPM) have shown remarkable efficacy in the synthesis of high-quality images. However, their inference process characteristically requires numerous, potentially hundreds, of iterative steps, which could exaggerate the problem of exposure bias due to the training and in…

2023

Surrogate Model Extension (SME): A Fast and Accurate Weight Update Attack on Federated Learning

ICML 2023poster

In Federated Learning (FL) and many other distributed training frameworks, collaborators can hold their private data locally and only share the network weights trained with the local data after multiple iterations. Gradient inversion is a family of privacy attacks that recovers data from its generat…