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Mark Coates
Full Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
Joined
December 2019
Names
Mark Coates
,
Mark J. Coates
Emails
****@mcgill.ca
(Confirmed)
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Career & Education History
Full Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McGill University
(mcgill.ca)
2016
–
Present
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McGill University
(mcgill.ca)
2009
–
2016
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
McGill University
(mcgill.ca)
2002
–
2009
Postdoc
Electrical Engineering,
Rice University
(rice.edu)
1999
–
2001
PhD student
Information Engineering,
University of Cambridge
(cam.ac.uk)
1995
–
1999
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Postdoc Advisor
Richard Baraniuk
2000
–
2002
Postdoc Advisor
Robert Nowak
2000
–
2002
Expertise
recommender systems
2019
–
Present
Graph learning
2010
–
Present
Bayesian inference
2000
–
Present
particle filters
2000
–
Present
Publications
Dynamic layer selection in decoder-only transformers
Theodore Glavas
,
Joud Chataoui
,
Florence Regol
,
Wassim Jabbour
,
Antonios Valkanas
,
Boris N. Oreshkin
,
Mark Coates
NeurIPS Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing Workshop (ENLSP-IV)
Readers:
Everyone
Multi-resolution Time-Series Transformer for Long-term Forecasting
Yitian Zhang
,
Liheng Ma
,
Soumyasundar Pal
,
Yingxue Zhang
,
Mark Coates
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
Readers:
Everyone
H-WM: Robotic Task and Motion Planning Guided by Hierarchical World Model
Wenyuan Chen
,
Jinbang Huang
,
Oscar Pang
,
Zhiyuan Li
,
Xiao Hu
,
Lingfeng Zhang
,
Zhanguang Zhang
,
Mark Coates
,
Tongtong Cao
,
Xingyue Quan
,
Yingxue Zhang
ICLR 2026 Workshop World Models
Readers:
Everyone
Self-CriTeach: LLM Self-Teaching and Self-Critiquing for Improving Robotic Planning via Automated Domain Generation
Jinbang Huang
,
Zhiyuan Li
,
Yuanzhao Hu
,
Zhanguang Zhang
,
Mark Coates
,
Xingyue Quan
,
Yingxue Zhang
ICLR 2026 Workshop RSI Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Self-CriTeach: LLM Self-Teaching and Self-Critiquing for Improving Robotic Planning via Automated Domain Generation
Jinbang Huang
,
Zhiyuan Li
,
Yuanzhao Hu
,
Zhanguang Zhang
,
Mark Coates
,
Xingyue Quan
,
Yingxue Zhang
ICML 2026 regular
Readers:
Everyone
Abductive Reasoning with Probabilistic Commonsense
Joseph Cotnareanu
,
Chiara Roverato
,
Han Zhou
,
Didier Chételat
,
Yingxue Zhang
,
Mark Coates
ICML 2026 regular
Readers:
Everyone
InvertiTune: High-Quality Data Synthesis for Cost-Effective Single-Shot Text-to-Knowledge Graph Generation
Faezeh Faez
,
Marzieh S. Tahaei
,
Yaochen Hu
,
Ali Pourranjbar
,
Mahdi Biparva
,
Mark Coates
,
Yingxue Zhang
Accepted by TMLR
Readers:
Everyone
It Takes Two: Your GRPO Is Secretly DPO
Yihong Wu
,
Liheng Ma
,
Lei Ding
,
Muzhi Li
,
Xinyu Wang
,
Kejia Chen
,
Zhan Su
,
Zhanguang Zhang
,
Chenyang Huang
,
Yingxue Zhang
,
Mark Coates
,
Jian-Yun Nie
NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
Readers:
Everyone
PhyloTextDiff: Text-Based Discrete Diffusion for Generative Phylogenetic Inference
Chiara Roverato
,
Pablo Piantanida
,
Mark Coates
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Omni-Thinker: Scaling Multi-Task RL in LLMs with Hybrid Reward and Task Scheduling
Derek Li
,
Jiaming Zhou
,
Leo Maxime Brunswic
,
Abbas Ghaddar
,
Qianyi Sun
,
Liheng Ma
,
Yu Luo
,
Dong Li
,
Mark Coates
,
Jianye HAO
,
Yingxue Zhang
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
View all 268 publications
Co-Authors
Abbas Ghaddar
Adam Santorelli
Adriana Romero-Soriano
Aidong Men
Alfred O. Hero III
Ali Pourranjbar
Amit Levi
Amur Ghose
Andrea Edelstein
André-Walter Panzini
Anja Kroon
Anna Scaglione
Antonios Valkanas
Anukool Lakhina
Arash Mohammadi
Arezou Amini
Arnaud Doucet
Arslan Shahid
Augustin-Alexandru Saucan
Benjamin Renard
Bertrand Charpentier
Bin Wang
Bin Yu
Bo Yang
Bogdan Mazoure
View all 214 co-authors