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

ToolPRMBench: Evaluating and Advancing Process Reward Models for Tool-using Agents
Dawei Li, Yuguang Yao, Zhen Tan, huan liu, Ruocheng Guo
- ICLR 2026 Workshop VerifAI-2
- Readers: Everyone
R2I-Bench: Benchmarking Reasoning-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
Kaijie Chen, Zihao Lin, Zhiyang Xu, Ying Shen, Yuguang Yao, Joy Rimchala, Jiaxin Zhang, Lifu Huang
- EMNLP 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Prompting Reimagined: The Power of Activation Prompts
Yihua Zhang, Hongkang Li, Yuguang Yao, Aochuan Chen, Shuai Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu
- AISTATS 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Safety Mirage: How Spurious Correlations Undermine VLM Safety Fine-Tuning and Can Be Mitigated by Machine Unlearning
Yiwei Chen, Yuguang Yao, Yihua Zhang, Bingquan Shen, Gaowen Liu, Sijia Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
LaTtE-Flow: Layerwise Timestep-Expert Flow-based Transformer
Ying Shen, Zhiyang Xu, Jiuhai Chen, Shizhe Diao, Jiaxin Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Joy Rimchala, Ismini Lourentzou, Lifu Huang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Improving Tool-Using Language Agents via MDL‑Guided Rule Learning
Xiang Gao, Yuguang Yao, Qi Zhang, Kaiwen Dong, Avinash Baidya, Ruocheng Guo, Hilaf Hasson, Kamalika Das
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Invariance Makes LLM Unlearning Resilient Even to Unanticipated Downstream Fine-Tuning
Changsheng Wang, Yihua Zhang, Jinghan Jia, Parikshit Ram, Dennis Wei, Yuguang Yao, Soumyadeep Pal, Nathalie Baracaldo, Sijia Liu
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Prompting Reimagined: The Power of Activation Prompts
Yihua Zhang, Hongkang Li, Yuguang Yao, Aochuan Chen, Shuai Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu
- CPAL 2025 (Recent Spotlight Track)
- Readers: Everyone
Visual Prompting Reimagined: The Power of Activation Prompts
Yihua Zhang, Hongkang Li, Yuguang Yao, Aochuan Chen, Shuai Zhang, Pin-Yu Chen, Meng Wang, Sijia Liu
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
FairSkin: Fair Diffusion for Skin Disease Image Geneartion
Ruichen Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Zhen Tan, Zhimin Li, Pan Wang, huan liu, Jingtong Hu, Sijia Liu, Tianlong Chen
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone

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