Yu-Ren Liu

Joined

May 2019

Names

Yu-Ren Liu (Preferred)

Emails

****@lamda.nju.edu.cn (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Nanjing University (nju.edu.cn)

2018 – 2023

Undergrad student

Nanjing University (nju.edu.cn)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2018 – Present

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

2017 – Present

Derivative-Free Optimization

2017 – Present

Publications

Learning Generalizable Environment Models via Discovering Superposed Causal Relationships
Siyuan Xiao, Xiong-Hui Chen, Linjun Zhou, Yu-Ren Liu, Ziyi Zhang, Yang Yu, Fangsheng Huang, Mengyue Yang
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Learning World Models with Identifiable Factorization
Yu-Ren Liu, Biwei Huang, Zhengmao Zhu, Honglong Tian, Mingming Gong, Yang Yu, Kun Zhang
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beware of Instantaneous Dependence in Reinforcement Learning
Zheng-Mao Zhu, Yu-Ren Liu, Hong-Long Tian, Yang Yu, Kun Zhang
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 15 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
ZOOpt: a toolbox for derivative-free optimization
Yu-Ren Liu, Yi-Qi Hu, Hong Qian, Chao Qian, Yang Yu
- 2022 (modified: 16 Apr 2023)
- Sci. China Inf. Sci. 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Invariant Action Effect Model for Reinforcement Learning
Zheng-Mao Zhu, Shengyi Jiang, Yu-Ren Liu, Yang Yu, Kun Zhang
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 15 May 2023
- AAAI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Sparsity Prior Regularized Q-learning for Sparse Action Tasks
Jing-Cheng Pang, Tian Xu, Shengyi Jiang, Yu-Ren Liu, Yang Yu
- 2021 (modified: 19 May 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Asynchronous classification-based optimization
Yu-Ren Liu, Yi-Qi Hu, Hong Qian, Yang Yu
- 2019 (modified: 15 Nov 2025)
- DAI 2019
- Readers: Everyone
ZOOpt/ZOOjl: Toolbox for Derivative-Free Optimization
Yu-Ren Liu, Yi-Qi Hu, Hong Qian, Yang Yu, Chao Qian
- 2018 (modified: 15 Nov 2025)
- CoRR 2018
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors