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Siyuan Ma

6 accepted papers

2026

Dissecting Embodied Abilities in Multimodal Language Models through Skill-level Evaluation and Diagnosis

ICML 2026poster

Understanding the capability bottlenecks of embodied multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is crucial for improvement. However, existing embodied benchmarks fail to provide actionable insights because they focus on task-level evaluation rather than discovering capability bottlenecks. To address t…

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2025

Benchmarking Vision Language Model Unlearning via Fictitious Facial Identity Dataset

ICLR 2025poster

Machine unlearning has emerged as an effective strategy for forgetting specific information in the training data. However, with the increasing integration of visual data, privacy concerns in Vision Language Models (VLMs) remain underexplored. To address this, we introduce Facial Identity Unlearning…

2025

Fast Training of Large Kernel Models with Delayed Projections

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Classical kernel machines have historically faced significant challenges in scaling to large datasets and model sizes—a key ingredient that has driven the success of neural networks. In this paper, we present a new methodology for building kernel machines that can scale efficiently with both data si…

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2018

The Power of Interpolation: Understanding the Effectiveness of SGD in Modern Over-parametrized Learning

ICML 2018oral

In this paper we aim to formally explain the phenomenon of fast convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) observed in modern machine learning. The key observation is that most modern learning architectures are over-parametrized and are trained to interpolate the data by driving the empirical…

Cited by 365SourcePDFScholar
2017

Diving into the shallows: a computational perspective on large-scale shallow learning

NeurIPS 2017spotlight

Remarkable recent success of deep neural networks has not been easy to analyze theoretically. It has been particularly hard to disentangle relative significance of architecture and optimization in achieving accurate classification on large datasets. On the flip side, shallow methods (such as kernel…

Cited by 102SourcePDFScholar