Yifei Shen

Research Cheerleader, Microsoft Research Asia

Joined

May 2021

Names

Yifei Shen (Preferred)

Emails

****@connect.ust.hk (Confirmed)

****@microsoft.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Research Cheerleader

Microsoft Research Asia (microsoft.com)

2022 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Khaled B. Letaief

2018 – 2022

PhD Advisor

Jun Zhang

2018 – 2022

Expertise

Graph neural networks

Present

Communications

Present

Publications

SortedRL: Accelerating RL Training for LLMs through Online Length-aware Scheduling
Yiqi Zhang, Huiqiang Jiang, Xufang Luo, Zhihe Yang, Chengruidong Zhang, Yifei Shen, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang, Lili Qiu, Yang You
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Benefits and Pitfalls of Reinforcement Learning for Language Model Planning: A Theoretical Perspective
Siwei Wang, Yifei Shen, Haoran Sun, Shi Feng, Shang-Hua Teng, Li Dong, Yaru Hao, Wei Chen
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VidGuard-R1: AI-Generated Video Detection and Explanation via Reasoning MLLMs and RL
Kyoungjun Park, Yifan Yang, Juheon Yi, Shicheng Zheng, Muhammad Muaz, Yifei Shen, Dongqi Han, Caihua Shan, Lili Qiu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Diffusion Models for Class-imbalanced Training Data via Capacity Manipulation
Feng Hong, Jiangchao Yao, Yifei Shen, Dongsheng Li, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
SortedRL: Accelerating RL Training for LLMs through Online Length-aware Scheduling
Yiqi Zhang, Huiqiang Jiang, Xufang Luo, Zhihe Yang, Chengruidong Zhang, Yifei Shen, Dongsheng Li, Yuqing Yang, Lili Qiu, Yang You
- ES-FoMo III
- Readers: Everyone
Omni-DNA: A Genomic Model Supporting Sequence Understanding, Long-context, and Textual Annotation
Zehui Li, Vallijah Subasri, Yifei Shen, Dongsheng Li, Wentao Gu, Guy-Bart Stan, Yiren Zhao, Caihua Shan
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Towards Graph Foundation Models: Training on Knowledge Graphs Enables Transferability to General Graphs
Kai Wang, Siqiang Luo, Caihua Shan, Yifei Shen
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerating Block Coordinate Descent for LLM Finetuning via Landscape Expansion
Qijun Luo, Yifei Shen, Liangzu Peng, Dongsheng Li, Xiao Li
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Toward Relative Positional Encoding in Spiking Transformers
Changze Lv, Yansen Wang, Dongqi Han, Yifei Shen, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang, Dongsheng Li
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
When Do LLMs Help With Node Classification? A Comprehensive Analysis
Xixi Wu, Yifei Shen, Fangzhou Ge, Caihua Shan, Yizhu Jiao, Xiangguo Sun, Hong Cheng
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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