Yuguang Yao

Research Scientist, Intuit

Joined

May 2021

Names

Yuguang Yao (Preferred)

Emails

****@msu.edu (Confirmed)

****@intuit.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Intuit (intuit.com)

2025 – Present

PhD student

Michigan State University (msu.edu)

2019 – 2024

Undergrad student

Tsinghua University (tsinghua.edu.cn)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Sijia Liu

2020 – 2025

Expertise

AI efficiency

2021 – 2026

AI interpretability

2021 – 2026

AI safety

2020 – 2026

Publications

Towards Understanding How Self-training Tolerates Data Backdoor Poisoning
Soumyadeep Pal, Ren Wang, Yuguang Yao, Sijia Liu
- 17 May 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Prompting for Adversarial Robustness
Aochuan Chen, Peter Lorenz, Yuguang Yao, Pin-Yu Chen, Sijia Liu
- Published: 05 Dec 2022, Last Modified: 15 Feb 2026
- MLSW2022
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Prompting for Adversarial Robustness
Aochuan Chen, Peter Lorenz, Yuguang Yao, Pin-Yu Chen, Sijia Liu
- Published: 21 Nov 2022, Last Modified: 09 Nov 2025
- TSRML2022
- Readers: Everyone
Advancing Model Pruning via Bi-level Optimization
Yihua Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Parikshit Ram, Pu Zhao, Tianlong Chen, Mingyi Hong, Yanzhi Wang, Sijia Liu
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Generate Image Source-Agnostic Universal Adversarial Perturbations
Pu Zhao, Parikshit Ram, Songtao Lu, Yuguang Yao, Djallel Bouneffouf, Xue Lin, Sijia Liu
- 2022 (modified: 15 Nov 2022)
- IJCAI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
CryoRL: Reinforcement Learning Enables Efficient Cryo-EM Data Collection
Quanfu Fan, Yilai Li, Yuguang Yao, John Cohn, Sijia Liu, Seychelle M. Vos, Michael A. Cianfrocco
- 2022 (modified: 15 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Advancing Model Pruning via Bi-level Optimization
Yihua Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Parikshit Ram, Pu Zhao, Tianlong Chen, Mingyi Hong, Yanzhi Wang, Sijia Liu
- 2022 (modified: 15 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
When Does Backdoor Attack Succeed in Image Reconstruction? A Study of Heuristics vs. Bi-Level Solution
Vardaan Taneja, Pin-Yu Chen, Yuguang Yao, Sijia Liu
- 2022 (modified: 15 Nov 2022)
- ICASSP 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Reverse Engineering of Imperceptible Adversarial Image Perturbations
Yifan Gong, Yuguang Yao, Yize Li, Yimeng Zhang, Xiaoming Liu, Xue Lin, Sijia Liu
- 2022 (modified: 15 Nov 2022)
- ICLR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
How to Robustify Black-Box ML Models? A Zeroth-Order Optimization Perspective
Yimeng Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Jinghan Jia, Jinfeng Yi, Mingyi Hong, Shiyu Chang, Sijia Liu
- 2022 (modified: 15 Nov 2022)
- ICLR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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