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qiang liu
Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin
Joined
November 2016
Names
qiang liu
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,
Qiang Liu
Emails
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****@dartmouth.edu
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****@gmail.com
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****@cs.utexas.edu
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Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
University of Texas, Austin
(utexas.edu)
2018
–
Present
Assistant Professor
Dartmouth College
(dartmouth.edu)
2015
–
2018
Postdoc
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(mit.edu)
2014
–
2015
PhD student
University of California, Irvine
(uci.edu)
2008
–
2014
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coworker
Jian Peng
2018
–
Present
coworker
Jason lee
2018
–
Present
coworker
dengyoung Zhou
2018
–
Present
coworker
Lihong li
2018
–
Present
Coworker
Dengyong Zhou
2018
–
2018
Coworker
Lihong li
2018
–
2018
Coworker
Jason lee
2018
–
2018
Postdoc Advisor
John Fisher III
2015
–
2015
PhD Advisor
Alexander Ihler
2011
–
2014
Expertise
machine learning
Present
reinforcement learning
,
off-policy evaluation
Present
deep learning
Present
approximate inference
,
variational inference
,
MCMC
,
probabilistic inference
,
bayesian inference
,
langevin dynamics
,
Monte Carlo
,
importance sampling
,
Stein variational
2014
–
Present
variational inference
,
approximate inference
,
MCMC
,
Monte Carlo
,
graphical models
,
Stein's method
2010
–
2018
Publications
On Closed-Form Couplings
Tobias Höppe
,
Stefan Bauer
,
qiang liu
,
Andrea Dittadi
,
Kirill Neklyudov
ICLR 2026 DeLTa Workshop Poster
Readers:
Everyone
On Closed-Form Couplings
Tobias Höppe
,
Stefan Bauer
,
qiang liu
,
Andrea Dittadi
,
Kirill Neklyudov
ICLR 2026 Workshop GRaM Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Muon Optimizes Under Spectral Norm Constraints
Lizhang Chen
,
Jonathan Li
,
qiang liu
Accepted by TMLR
Readers:
Everyone
Improving Adaptive Moment Optimization via Preconditioner Diagonalization
Son Nguyen
,
Bo Liu
,
Lizhang Chen
,
qiang liu
AISTATS 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
The Curious Case of AdamW
Baiyu Su
,
Lizhang Chen
,
qiang liu
Submitted to ICLR 2026
Readers:
Everyone
Cautious Weight Decay
Lizhang Chen
,
Jonathan Li
,
Kaizhao Liang
,
Baiyu Su
,
Cong Xie
,
Chen Liang
,
Ni Lao
,
qiang liu
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code
Kaizhao Liang
,
Lizhang Chen
,
Bo Liu
,
qiang liu
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
$\nabla$-Reasoner: LLM Reasoning via Test-Time Gradient Descent in Latent Space
Peihao Wang
,
Ruisi Cai
,
Zhen Wang
,
Hongyuan Mei
,
qiang liu
,
Pan Li
,
Zhangyang Wang
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
DeMo: Decoupled Momentum Optimization
Bowen Peng
,
Lizhang Chen
,
Baiyu Su
,
Jeffrey Quesnelle
,
Diederik P Kingma
,
qiang liu
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
Gumbel Distillation for Parallel Text Generation
Chi Zhang
,
Xixi Hu
,
Bo Liu
,
qiang liu
ICLR 2026 Poster
Readers:
Everyone
View all 143 publications
Co-Authors
Adam Klivans
Ainur Yessenalina
Alex Dimakis
Alexander T. Ihler
Alexander Tong
Alireza Makhzani
Andrea Dittadi
Andrew Ellington
Anima Anandkumar
Animesh Garg
Anna Korba
Arthur U. Asuncion
Arun Kejariwal
Aryan Mokhtari
Baiyu Su
Bhargav Bhushanam
Bo Liu
Bogi Andersen
Bowen Peng
Chandrajit Bajaj
Chen Liang
ChengYue Gong
Chengyue Gong
Chi Zhang
Chongkai Gao
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