Yi Liang

Researcher, Deepmind, Google

Joined

May 2022

Names

Yi Liang (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Deepmind, Google (deepmind.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Research, Research, Google (research.google.com)

2016 – 2024

PhD student

ECE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2012 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Deming Chen

2012 – 2016

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Cost-effective Agent Test-time Scaling via Budget-Aware Thinking
Tengxiao Liu, Zifeng Wang, Jin Miao, I-Hung Hsu, Jun Yan, Jiefeng Chen, Rujun Han, Fangyuan Xu, Yanfei Chen, Ke Jiang, Samira Daruki, Yi Liang, William Yang Wang, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Diffusion Language Models Know the Answer Before Decoding
Pengxiang Li, Yefan Zhou, Dilxat Muhtar, Lu Yin, Shilin Yan, Li Shen, Yi Liang, Soroush Vosoughi, Shiwei Liu
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Diffusion Language Model Knows the Answer Before It Decodes
Pengxiang Li, Yefan Zhou, Dilxat Muhtar, Lu Yin, Shilin Yan, Li Shen, Yi Liang, Soroush Vosoughi, Shiwei Liu
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
RMBoost: Reward Model Training With Preference-Conditional Multi-Aspect Synthetic Data Generation
Jiaming Shen, Ran Xu, Yennie Jun, Zhen Qin, Tianqi Liu, Carl Yang, Yi Liang, Simon Baumgartner, Michael Bendersky
- SSI-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Integrating Planning into Single-Turn Long-Form Text Generation
Yi Liang, You Wu, Honglei Zhuang, Li Chen, Jiaming Shen, Yiling Jia, Zhen Qin, Sumit Sanghai, Xuanhui Wang, Carl Yang, Michael Bendersky
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
$\texttt{Model-GLUE}$: Democratized LLM Scaling for A Large Model Zoo in the Wild
Xinyu Zhao, Guoheng Sun, Ruisi Cai, Yukun Zhou, Pingzhi Li, Peihao Wang, Bowen Tan, Yexiao He, Li Chen, Yi Liang, Beidi Chen, Binhang Yuan, Hongyi Wang, Ang Li, Zhangyang Wang, Tianlong Chen
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Embedding-Aligned Language Models
Guy Tennenholtz, Yinlam Chow, ChihWei Hsu, Lior Shani, Yi Liang, Craig Boutilier
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Outlier Weighed Layerwise Sparsity (OWL): A Missing Secret Sauce for Pruning LLMs to High Sparsity
Lu Yin, You Wu, Zhenyu Zhang, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Yaqing Wang, Yiling Jia, Gen Li, AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Yi Liang, Michael Bendersky, Zhangyang Wang, Shiwei Liu
- PML4LRS Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Outlier Weighed Layerwise Sparsity (OWL): A Missing Secret Sauce for Pruning LLMs to High Sparsity
Lu Yin, You Wu, Zhenyu Zhang, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Yaqing Wang, Yiling Jia, Gen Li, AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Yi Liang, Michael Bendersky, Zhangyang Wang, Shiwei Liu
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Outlier Weighed Layerwise Sparsity (OWL): A Missing Secret Sauce for Pruning LLMs to High Sparsity
Lu Yin, You Wu, Zhenyu Zhang, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Yaqing Wang, Yiling Jia, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Yi Liang, Zhangyang Wang, Shiwei Liu
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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