Yifan Wang

PhD student, Purdue University

Joined

January 2023

Names

Yifan Wang (Preferred)

Emails

****@purdue.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Purdue University (purdue.edu)

2022 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ananth Grama

2022 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!
Shuo Xing, Junyuan Hong, Yifan Wang, Runjin Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Ananth Grama, Zhengzhong Tu, Zhangyang Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
DRIFT: Learning from Abundant User Dissatisfaction in Real-World Preference Learning
Yifan Wang, Bolian Li, Junlin Wu, Zhaoxuan Tan, Zheli Liu, Ruqi Zhang, Ananth Grama, Qingkai Zeng
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Cascade Reward Sampling for Efficient Decoding-Time Alignment
Bolian Li, Yifan Wang, Anamika Lochab, Ananth Grama, Ruqi Zhang
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
More is Less: The Pitfalls of Multi-Model Synthetic Preference Data in DPO Safety Alignment
Yifan Wang, Runjin Chen, Bolian Li, David Cho, Yihe Deng, Ruqi Zhang, Tianlong Chen, Zhangyang Wang, Ananth Grama, Junyuan Hong
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Low Rank Gradient Subspace Stabilization to Low-Rank Weights: Observations, Theories, and Applications
AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Yifan Wang, Lu Yin, Shiwei Liu, Runjin Chen, Jiawei Zhao, Ananth Grama, Yuandong Tian, Zhangyang Wang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Cascade Reward Sampling for Efficient Decoding-Time Alignment
Bolian Li, Yifan Wang, Ananth Grama, Ruqi Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Cascade Reward Sampling for Efficient Decoding-Time Alignment
Bolian Li, Yifan Wang, Ananth Grama, Ruqi Zhang
- NextGenAISafety 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Theory of Fault-Tolerant Learning
Changlong Wu, Yifan Wang, Ananth Grama
- ICML 2024 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Deconvolving Complex Neuronal Networks into Interpretable Task-Specific Connectomes
Yifan Wang, Ananth Grama, Vikram Ravindra
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Functional Distributions with Private Labels
Changlong Wu, Yifan Wang, Ananth Grama, Wojciech Szpankowski
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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