Yongqiang Wang

Full Professor, Clemson University

Joined

July 2019

Names

Yongqiang Wang

Emails

****@clemson.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Clemson University (clemson.edu)

2025 – Present

Associate Professor

Clemson University (clemson.edu)

2020 – 2025

Assistant Professor

Clemson University (clemson.edu)

2014 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

decentralized optimization

2016 – Present

privacy

2016 – Present

decentralized learning

2016 – Present

Publications

Leveraging Recursive Methods for Efficient Federated Learning
Jie Liu, Zuang Wang, Yongqiang Wang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Faster than O(1/t) Convergence in General Convex Federated Learning
Jie Liu, Zuang Wang, Yongqiang Wang
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Faster than $O(1/t)$ Convergence in Convex Federated Learning
Jie Liu, Zuang Wang, Yongqiang Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Gradient Clipping Accelerates Saddle Avoidance in Distributed Optimization
Yanan Bo, Yongqiang Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Local Stepsizes Accelerate Distributed Optimization
Zuang Wang, Yongqiang Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
LEVERAGING RECURSION FOR EFFICIENT FEDERATED LEARNING
Jie Liu, Zuang Wang, Yongqiang Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Accelerating Optimization and Machine Learning via Decentralization
Ziqin Chen, Zuang Wang, Yongqiang Wang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Incentivizing Truthfulness in Fully Decentralized Learning with Guaranteed Accurate Convergence
Ziqin Chen, Yongqiang Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Locally Differentially Private Decentralized Stochastic Bilevel Optimization with Guaranteed Convergence Accuracy
Ziqin Chen, Yongqiang Wang
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors