Yao Ma

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

Joined

December 2017

Names

Yao Ma (Preferred)

Emails

****@bu.edu (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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****@amazon.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Senior Applied Scientist

Amazon (amazon.com)

2021 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Bandits

Present

Reinforcement learning

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Online learning

Present

Publications

Adversarial Déjà Vu: Jailbreak Dictionary Learning for Stronger Generalization to Unseen Attacks
Mahavir Dabas, Tran Huynh, Nikhil Reddy Billa, Jiachen T. Wang, Peng Gao, Charith Peris, Yao Ma, Rahul Gupta, Ming Jin, Prateek Mittal, Ruoxi Jia
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A policy search method for temporal logic specified reinforcement learning task
Xiao Li, Yao Ma, Calin Belta
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Gradient Descent for Sparse Rank-One Matrix Completion for Crowd-Sourced Aggregation of Sparsely Interacting Workers
Yao Ma, Alexander Olshevsky, Csaba Szepesvári, Venkatesh Saligrama
- 2018 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICML 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Theoretical Comparisons of Positive-Unlabeled Learning against Positive-Negative Learning
Gang Niu, Marthinus Christoffel du Plessis, Tomoya Sakai, Yao Ma, Masashi Sugiyama
- 2016 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2016
- Readers: Everyone

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