Weiyu Xu

Full Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa

Joined

May 2021

Names

Weiyu Xu (Preferred)

Emails

****@uiowa.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa (uiowa.edu)

2012 – Present

PhD student

Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)

2005 – 2009

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Babak Hassibi

2005 – 2009

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Feature compression is the root cause of adversarial fragility in neural networks
Jingchao Gao, Ziqing Lu, Raghu Mudumbai, Xiaodong Wu, Jirong Yi, Myung Cho, Catherine Xu, Hui Xie, Weiyu Xu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
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Learn to change the world: Multi-level reinforcement learning with model-changing actions
Ziqing Lu, Babak Hassibi, Lifeng Lai, Weiyu Xu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
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Separation-free super-resolution from compressed measurements is possible: an orthonormal atomic norm minimization approach
Weiyu Xu, Jirong Yi
- 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
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Outlier detection using generative models with theoretical performance guarantees
Jirong Yi, Anh Duc Le, Tianming Wang, Xiaodong Wu, Weiyu Xu
- arXiv preprint
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An information-theoretic explanation for the adversarial fragility of ai classifiers
Hui Xie, Jirong Yi, Weiyu Xu, Raghuraman Mudumbai
- 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
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Do Deep Minds Think Alike? Selective Adversarial Attacks for Fine-Grained Manipulation of Multiple Deep Neural Networks
Zain Khan, Jirong Yi, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Xiaodong Wu, Weiyu Xu
- arXiv preprint
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Low-cost and high-throughput testing of COVID-19 viruses and antibodies via compressed sensing: System concepts and computational experiments
Jirong Yi, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Weiyu Xu
- arXiv preprint
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Derivation of information-theoretically optimal adversarial attacks with applications to robust machine learning
Jirong Yi, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Weiyu Xu
- arXiv preprint
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Error correction codes for COVID-19 virus and antibody testing: Using pooled testing to increase test reliability
Jirong Yi, Myung Cho, Xiaodong Wu, Weiyu Xu, Raghuraman Mudumbai
- arXiv preprint
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Optimal pooling matrix design for group testing with dilution (row degree) constraints
Jirong Yi, Myung Cho, Xiaodong Wu, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Weiyu Xu
- arXiv preprint
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Co-Authors

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