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20152026
most citedUnderstanding Adversarial Training: Increasing Local Stability of Neural Nets through Robust Optimization

375 citations · 548 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

The Agentic Scientist: Orchestrating Coding Agents for Automated Scientific (Co-)Discovery

Robert Tjarko Lange, Luca Grillotti, Yutaro Yamada +2

Modern coding agents are fundamentally reshaping the role of human input for computational research: they write code, launch in silico experiments, analyze their results, and auton…

cs.AI2026

Self Improvement via Fast Tree-search

Xinghong Fu, Aravinth Kulanthaivelu, Yutaro Yamada

Coding agents can recursively modify their own implementations, forming a loop of self-improvement. While prior work shows this can boost performance on coding benchmarks, existing…

cs.LG2026

Diffusing Blame: Task-Dependent Credit Assignment in Biologically Plausible Dual-Stream Networks

Yutaro Yamada, Luca Grillotti, Rujikorn Charakorn +3

Biological neural circuits obey Dale's principle: each neuron's synapses are uniformly excitatory or inhibitory. Artificial networks that respect this constraint must coordinate se…

cs.AI2026

Towards End-to-End Automation of AI Research

Yutaro Yamada, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu +5

The automation of science is a long-standing ambition in the field of AI. While the community has made significant progress in automating individual components of the scientific pr…

cs.AI2025★ 30 cited

The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search

Yutaro Yamada, Robert Tjarko Lange, Cong Lu +5

AI is increasingly playing a pivotal role in transforming how scientific discoveries are made. We introduce The AI Scientist-v2, an end-to-end agentic system capable of producing t…

cs.AI2024

L3GO: Language Agents with Chain-of-3D-Thoughts for Generating Unconventional Objects

Yutaro Yamada, Khyathi Chandu, Yuchen Lin +3

Diffusion-based image generation models such as DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion-XL demonstrate remarkable capabilities in generating images with realistic and unique compositions. Ye…

cs.CL2023★ 51 cited

Evaluating GPT-4 and ChatGPT on Japanese Medical Licensing Examinations

Jungo Kasai, Yuhei Kasai, Keisuke Sakaguchi +2

As large language models (LLMs) gain popularity among speakers of diverse languages, we believe that it is crucial to benchmark them to better understand model behaviors, failures,…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Does Robustness on ImageNet Transfer to Downstream Tasks?

Yutaro Yamada, Mayu Otani

As clean ImageNet accuracy nears its ceiling, the research community is increasingly more concerned about robust accuracy under distributional shifts. While a variety of methods ha…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Can Wikipedia Help Offline Reinforcement Learning?

Machel Reid, Yutaro Yamada, Shixiang Shane Gu

Fine-tuning reinforcement learning (RL) models has been challenging because of a lack of large scale off-the-shelf datasets as well as high variance in transferability among differ…

math.ST2021

Support Recovery with Stochastic Gates: Theory and Application for Linear Models

Soham Jana, Henry Li, Yutaro Yamada +1

Consider the problem of simultaneous estimation and support recovery of the coefficient vector in a linear data model with additive Gaussian noise. We study the problem of estimati…

cs.LG2018★ 40 cited

Feature Selection using Stochastic Gates

Yutaro Yamada, Ofir Lindenbaum, Sahand Negahban +1

Feature selection problems have been extensively studied for linear estimation, for instance, Lasso, but less emphasis has been placed on feature selection for non-linear functions…

stat.ML2018★ 45 cited

Defending against Adversarial Images using Basis Functions Transformations

Uri Shaham, James Garritano, Yutaro Yamada +5

We study the effectiveness of various approaches that defend against adversarial attacks on deep networks via manipulations based on basis function representations of images. Speci…

stat.ML2015★ 375 cited

Understanding Adversarial Training: Increasing Local Stability of Neural Nets through Robust Optimization

Uri Shaham, Yutaro Yamada, Sahand Negahban

We propose a general framework for increasing local stability of Artificial Neural Nets (ANNs) using Robust Optimization (RO). We achieve this through an alternating minimization-m…