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Publications (41)

cs.LG2021

Understanding Generalization in Adversarial Training via the Bias-Variance Decomposition

Yaodong Yu, Zitong Yang, Edgar Dobriban +2

Adversarially trained models exhibit a large generalization gap: they can interpolate the training set even for large perturbation radii, but at the cost of large test error on cle…

cs.CV2025

Adventurer: Optimizing Vision Mamba Architecture Designs for Efficiency

Feng Wang, Timing Yang, Yaodong Yu +7

In this work, we introduce the Adventurer series models where we treat images as sequences of patch tokens and employ uni-directional language models to learn visual representation…

cs.LG2022

Online Nonsubmodular Minimization with Delayed Costs: From Full Information to Bandit Feedback

Tianyi Lin, Aldo Pacchiano, Yaodong Yu +1

Motivated by applications to online learning in sparse estimation and Bayesian optimization, we consider the problem of online unconstrained nonsubmodular minimization with delayed…

cs.LG2024

Token Statistics Transformer: Linear-Time Attention via Variational Rate Reduction

Ziyang Wu, Tianjiao Ding, Yifu Lu +6

The attention operator is arguably the key distinguishing factor of transformer architectures, which have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks. However,…

cs.LG2022

Predicting Out-of-Distribution Error with the Projection Norm

Yaodong Yu, Zitong Yang, Alexander Wei +2

We propose a metric -- Projection Norm -- to predict a model's performance on out-of-distribution (OOD) data without access to ground truth labels. Projection Norm first uses model…

cs.CV2026

Scaling Laws in Patchification: An Image Is Worth 50,176 Tokens And More

Feng Wang, Yaodong Yu, Guoyizhe Wei +4

Since the introduction of Vision Transformer (ViT), patchification has long been regarded as a de facto image tokenization approach for plain visual architectures. By compressing t…