Scholar
Lifeng Lai
Google Scholar ID: gOhaCfUAAAAJ
Professor, University of California, Davis
Machine learning
Information theory
Statistical signal processing
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76
Publications
20
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43
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Publications
11 items
Learning Style, Forgetting Semantics: A Case Study of SFT and RFT on Classification Tasks
2026
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Robust Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning from Corrupted Human Feedback
2026
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Transformers Provably Implement In-Context Reinforcement Learning with Policy Improvement
2026
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Efficient Preference Poisoning Attack on Offline RLHF
2026
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Learn to Change the World: Multi-level Reinforcement Learning with Model-Changing Actions
2025
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Provably Invincible Adversarial Attacks on Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Rate-Distortion Information-Theoretic Approach
2025
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Differentially Private Two-Stage Gradient Descent for Instrumental Variable Regression
2025
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Discrete Diffusion Models: Novel Analysis and New Sampler Guarantees
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
Publications: Over 20 papers published in top journals and conferences
Awards: Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2019
Patents: Holds 3 US patents
Projects: Major contributor to several national-level research projects
Research Experience
Senior Researcher at Google AI Lab (2020-Present)
Project: Developing next-generation natural language processing algorithms
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University (2018-2020)
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science - Stanford University (2015-2020), Advisor: Prof. Zhang
M.S. in Software Engineering - UC Berkeley (2013-2015)
B.S. in Electrical Engineering - MIT (2009-2013)
Background
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Field of Expertise: Computer Science and Technology
Bio: Committed to advancing technological progress through innovative AI solutions.
Miscellany
Interests: Enjoys reading science fiction, hiking
Hobbies: Also passionate about participating in programming competitions in spare time
Co-authors
11 total
Yingbin Liang
The Ohio State University
Husheng Li
Purdue University
Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
Distinguished Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Guanlin Liu
ByteDance
Shuguang Cui
Distinguished Presidential Chair Professor, School of Science and Engineering, CUHKSZ
Shaofeng Zou
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Huishuai Zhang
Peking University
Erhan Bayraktar
Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics