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Yao-Yuan Yang

6 accepted papers

2026

Diagnosing Failures in Generalization from Task-Relevant Representational Geometry

ICLR 2026poster

Generalization—the ability to perform well beyond the training context—is a hallmark of biological and artificial intelligence, yet anticipating unseen failures remains a central challenge. Conventional approaches often take a bottom-up mechanistic route by reverse-engineering interpretable features…

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2022

Torchaudio: Building Blocks for Audio and Speech Processing

ICASSP 2022accepted

This document describes version 0.10 of TorchAudio: building blocks for machine learning applications in the audio and speech processing domain. The objective of TorchAudio is to accelerate the development and deployment of machine learning applications for researchers and engineers by providing off…

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2022

What You See is What You Get: Principled Deep Learning via Distributional Generalization

NeurIPS 2022accept

Having similar behavior at training time and test time—what we call a “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) property—is desirable in machine learning. Models trained with standard stochastic gradient descent (SGD), however, do not necessarily have this property, as their complex behaviors such as…

2021

Connecting Interpretability and Robustness in Decision Trees through Separation

ICML 2021spotlight

Recent research has recognized interpretability and robustness as essential properties of trustworthy classification. Curiously, a connection between robustness and interpretability was empirically observed, but the theoretical reasoning behind it remained elusive. In this paper, we rigorously inves…

2020

A Closer Look at Accuracy vs. Robustness

NeurIPS 2020poster

Current methods for training robust networks lead to a drop in test accuracy, which has led prior works to posit that a robustness-accuracy tradeoff may be inevitable in deep learning. We take a closer look at this phenomenon and first show that real image datasets are actually separated. With this…

2020

Robustness for Non-Parametric Classification: A Generic Attack and Defense

AISTATS 2020poster

Adversarially robust machine learning has received much recent attention. However, prior attacks and defenses for non-parametric classifiers have been developed in an ad-hoc or classifier-specific basis. In this work, we take a holistic look at adversarial examples for non-parametric classifiers, in…