Da Yu

Senior Researcher Scientist, Google

Joined

September 2019

Names

Da Yu (Preferred)

Emails

****@mail2.sysu.edu.cn (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

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Homepage

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Career & Education History

Senior Researcher Scientist

Google (google.com)

2024 – Present

PhD student

SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY (sysu.edu.cn)

2019 – 2024

Research intern

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2019 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Tie-Yan Liu

2019 – 2024

PhD Advisor

Jian Yin

2019 – 2024

Expertise

Deep Learning

Present

Privacy

Present

Security

Present

Explainability

interpretability

Present

Publications

Differentially Private Conditional Text Generation with RL-Boosted Control
Yuzheng Hu, Ryan McKenna, Da Yu, Shanshan Wu, Han Zhao, Zheng Xu, Peter Kairouz
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Do Language Models Robustly Acquire New Knowledge?
Harshay Shah, Badih Ghazi, Yangsibo Huang, Ravi Kumar, Da Yu, Chiyuan Zhang
- CCFM Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Synthesize Privacy-Preserving High-Resolution Images via Private Textual Intermediaries
Haoxiang Wang, Zinan Lin, Da Yu, Huishuai Zhang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Embedding Layers in Language Models
Da Yu, Edith Cohen, Badih Ghazi, Yangsibo Huang, Pritish Kamath, Ravi Kumar, Daogao Liu, Chiyuan Zhang
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
URANIA: Differentially Private Insights into AI Use
Daogao Liu, Edith Cohen, Badih Ghazi, Peter Kairouz, Pritish Kamath, Alexander Knop, Ravi Kumar, Pasin Manurangsi, Adam Sealfon, Da Yu, Chiyuan Zhang
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Laws for Differentially Private Language Models
Ryan McKenna, Yangsibo Huang, Amer Sinha, Borja Balle, Zachary Charles, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Badih Ghazi, Georgios Kaissis, Ravi Kumar, Ruibo Liu, Da Yu, Chiyuan Zhang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Embedding Layers in Language Models
Da Yu, Edith Cohen, Badih Ghazi, Yangsibo Huang, Pritish Kamath, Ravi Kumar, Daogao Liu, Chiyuan Zhang
- Submitted to ICML 2025
- Readers: Everyone
On Memorization of Large Language Models in Logical Reasoning
Chulin Xie, Yangsibo Huang, Chiyuan Zhang, Da Yu, Xinyun Chen, Bill Yuchen Lin, Bo Li, Badih Ghazi, Ravi Kumar
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
On Memorization of Large Language Models in Logical Reasoning
Chulin Xie, Yangsibo Huang, Chiyuan Zhang, Da Yu, Xinyun Chen, Bill Yuchen Lin, Bo Li, Badih Ghazi, Ravi Kumar
- MATH-AI 24
- Readers: Everyone
Selective Pre-training for Private Fine-tuning
Da Yu, Sivakanth Gopi, Janardhan Kulkarni, Zinan Lin, Saurabh Naik, Tomasz Lukasz Religa, Jian Yin, Huishuai Zhang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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