Yanli Liu

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Shein Technology LLC

Joined

July 2019

Names

Yanli Liu (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

,

****@math.ucla.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Shein Technology LLC (sheingroup.com)

2024 – Present

Staff Research Scientist

OPPO US Research Center (oppo.com)

2020 – 2023

PhD student

University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)

2015 – 2020

Undergrad student

Nankai University, Tsinghua University (nankai.edu.cn)

2011 – 2015

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2015 – 2020

Expertise

Computer Vision

Present

Optimization

Present

Publications

FreeControl: Training-Free Spatial Control of Any Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Any Condition
Sicheng Mo, Fangzhou Mu, Kuan Heng Lin, Yanli Liu, Bochen Guan, Yin Li, Bolei Zhou
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Decentralized Learning With Lazy and Approximate Dual Gradients
Yanli Liu, Yuejiao Sun, Wotao Yin
- 2021 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- IEEE Trans. Signal Process. 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Acceleration of Primal-Dual Methods by Preconditioning and Simple Subproblem Procedures
Yanli Liu, Yunbei Xu, Wotao Yin
- 2021 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- J. Sci. Comput. 2021
- Readers: Everyone
An Improved Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum
Yanli Liu, Yuan Gao, Wotao Yin
- 2020 (modified: 26 Apr 2023)
- NeurIPS 2020
- Readers: Everyone
An Improved Analysis of (Variance-Reduced) Policy Gradient and Natural Policy Gradient Methods
Yanli Liu, Kaiqing Zhang, Tamer Basar, Wotao Yin
- 2020 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- NeurIPS 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Acceleration of SVRG and Katyusha X by Inexact Preconditioning
Yanli Liu, Fei Feng, Wotao Yin
- 2019 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICML 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Douglas-Rachford splitting and ADMM for pathological convex optimization
Ernest K. Ryu, Yanli Liu, Wotao Yin
- 2019 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- Comput. Optim. Appl. 2019
- Readers: Everyone
An Envelope for Davis-Yin Splitting and Strict Saddle-Point Avoidance
Yanli Liu, Wotao Yin
- 2019 (modified: 03 Nov 2022)
- J. Optim. Theory Appl. 2019
- Readers: Everyone
A new use of Douglas-Rachford splitting for identifying infeasible, unbounded, and pathological conic programs
Yanli Liu, Ernest K. Ryu, Wotao Yin
- 2019 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- Math. Program. 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Breaking the Span Assumption Yields Fast Finite-Sum Minimization
Robert Hannah, Yanli Liu, Daniel O'Connor, Wotao Yin
- 2018 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NeurIPS 2018
- Readers: Everyone

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