Quanquan Gu
194 papers · 2012–2026 · 14 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Papers
Avoiding exp($k^*$) Scaling for Thompson Sampling in Combinatorial Semi-Bandits: From Multiple Seeds to a Single Seed
COLT 2026
An All-Atom Generative Model for Designing Protein Complexes
ICML 2025
Beyond Bradley-Terry Models: A General Preference Model for Language Model Alignment
ICML 2025
Beyond-Expert Performance with Limited Demonstrations: Efficient Imitation Learning with Double Exploration
ICLR 2025
Convergence of Score-Based Discrete Diffusion Models: A Discrete-Time Analysis
ICLR 2025
CryoFM: A Flow-based Foundation Model for Cryo-EM Densities
ICLR 2025
Designing Cyclic Peptides via Harmonic SDE with Atom-Bond Modeling
ICML 2025
DPLM-2: A Multimodal Diffusion Protein Language Model
ICLR 2025
Elucidating the Design Space of Multimodal Protein Language Models
ICML 2025
Energy-Weighted Flow Matching for Offline Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2025
Global Convergence and Rich Feature Learning in L-Layer Infinite-Width Neural Networks under ΞΌ Parametrization
ICML 2025
LLaVA-Critic: Learning to Evaluate Multimodal Models
CVPR 2025
Logarithmic Regret for Online KL-Regularized Reinforcement Learning
ICML 2025
MARS: Unleashing the Power of Variance Reduction for Training Large Models
ICML 2025
Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models via Image-Grounded Guidance
ICML 2025
Nearly Optimal Algorithms for Contextual Dueling Bandits from Adversarial Feedback
ICML 2025
On the Power of Multitask Representation Learning with Gradient Descent
AISTATS 2025
ProteinBench: A Holistic Evaluation of Protein Foundation Models
ICLR 2025
Ranking with Multiple Oracles: From Weak to Strong Stochastic Transitivity
ICML 2025
Self-Play Preference Optimization for Language Model Alignment
ICLR 2025
Unified Convergence Analysis for Score-Based Diffusion Models with Deterministic Samplers
ICLR 2025
Achieving Constant Regret in Linear Markov Decision Processes
NeurIPS 2024
A Nearly Optimal and Low-Switching Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
NeurIPS 2024
Antigen-Specific Antibody Design via Direct Energy-based Preference Optimization
NeurIPS 2024
Borda Regret Minimization for Generalized Linear Dueling Bandits
ICML 2024
DecompOpt: Controllable and Decomposed Diffusion Models for Structure-based Molecular Optimization
ICLR 2024
Diffusion Language Models Are Versatile Protein Learners
ICML 2024
Enhancing Large Vision Language Models with Self-Training on Image Comprehension
NeurIPS 2024
Fast Sampling via Discrete Non-Markov Diffusion Models with Predetermined Transition Time
NeurIPS 2024
Feel-Good Thompson Sampling for Contextual Dueling Bandits
ICML 2024
Horizon-free Reinforcement Learning in Adversarial Linear Mixture MDPs
ICLR 2024
How Many Pretraining Tasks Are Needed for In-Context Learning of Linear Regression?
ICLR 2024
Large Language Models Can Be Contextual Privacy Protection Learners
EMNLP 2024
Matching the Statistical Query Lower Bound for k-Sparse Parity Problems with Sign Stochastic Gradient Descent
NeurIPS 2024
Pessimistic Nonlinear Least-Squares Value Iteration for Offline Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2024
Position: TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
ICML 2024
Protein Conformation Generation via Force-Guided SE(3) Diffusion Models
ICML 2024
Pure Exploration in Asynchronous Federated Bandits
UAI 2024
Risk Bounds of Accelerated SGD for Overparameterized Linear Regression
ICLR 2024
Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models
ICML 2024
Self-Play Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models for Text-to-image Generation
NeurIPS 2024
Towards Robust Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Against Adversarial Corruption
ICML 2024
Uncertainty-Aware Reward-Free Exploration with General Function Approximation
ICML 2024
Understanding Transferable Representation Learning and Zero-shot Transfer in CLIP
ICLR 2024
Variance-aware Regret Bounds for Stochastic Contextual Dueling Bandits
ICLR 2024
A General Framework for Sample-Efficient Function Approximation in Reinforcement Learning
ICLR 2023
Benign Overfitting in Adversarially Robust Linear Classification
UAI 2023
Benign Overfitting in Two-layer ReLU Convolutional Neural Networks
ICML 2023
Benign Overfitting of Constant-Stepsize SGD for Linear Regression
JMLR 2023
Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Asynchronous Communication and Linear Function Approximation
ICML 2023
Corruption-Robust Algorithms with Uncertainty Weighting for Nonlinear Contextual Bandits and Markov Decision Processes
ICML 2023
Corruption-Robust Offline Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
NeurIPS 2023
DecompDiff: Diffusion Models with Decomposed Priors for Structure-Based Drug Design
ICML 2023
Efficient Privacy-Preserving Stochastic Nonconvex Optimization
UAI 2023
Finite-Sample Analysis of Learning High-Dimensional Single ReLU Neuron
ICML 2023
How Does Semi-supervised Learning with Pseudo-labelers Work? A Case Study
ICLR 2023
Implicit Bias of Gradient Descent for Two-layer ReLU and Leaky ReLU Networks on Nearly-orthogonal Data
NeurIPS 2023
Nearly Minimax Optimal Regret for Learning Linear Mixture Stochastic Shortest Path
ICML 2023
Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Linear Markov Decision Processes
ICML 2023
Nesterov Meets Optimism: Rate-Optimal Separable Minimax Optimization
ICML 2023
On the Interplay Between Misspecification and Sub-optimality Gap in Linear Contextual Bandits
ICML 2023
Optimal Extragradient-Based Algorithms for Stochastic Variational Inequalities with Separable Structure
NeurIPS 2023
Optimal Horizon-Free Reward-Free Exploration for Linear Mixture MDPs
ICML 2023
Optimal Online Generalized Linear Regression with Stochastic Noise and Its Application to Heteroscedastic Bandits
ICML 2023
Personalized Federated Learning under Mixture of Distributions
ICML 2023
Robust Learning with Progressive Data Expansion Against Spurious Correlation
NeurIPS 2023
Structure-informed Language Models Are Protein Designers
ICML 2023
The Benefits of Mixup for Feature Learning
ICML 2023
The Implicit Bias of Batch Normalization in Linear Models and Two-layer Linear Convolutional Neural Networks
COLT 2023
Understanding the Generalization of Adam in Learning Neural Networks with Proper Regularization
ICLR 2023
Understanding Train-Validation Split in Meta-Learning with Neural Networks
ICLR 2023
Uniform-PAC Guarantees for Model-Based RL with Bounded Eluder Dimension
UAI 2023
Variance-Dependent Regret Bounds for Linear Bandits and Reinforcement Learning: Adaptivity and Computational Efficiency
COLT 2023
Why Does Sharpness-Aware Minimization Generalize Better Than SGD?
NeurIPS 2023
Active Ranking without Strong Stochastic Transitivity
NeurIPS 2022
Adaptive Sampling for Heterogeneous Rank Aggregation from Noisy Pairwise Comparisons
AISTATS 2022
Almost Optimal Algorithms for Two-player Zero-Sum Linear Mixture Markov Games
ALT 2022
A Simple and Provably Efficient Algorithm for Asynchronous Federated Contextual Linear Bandits
NeurIPS 2022
Benign Overfitting in Two-layer Convolutional Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2022
Computationally Efficient Horizon-Free Reinforcement Learning for Linear Mixture MDPs
NeurIPS 2022
Dimension-free Complexity Bounds for High-order Nonconvex Finite-sum Optimization
ICML 2022
Efficient Robust Training via Backward Smoothing
AAAI 2022
Faster Perturbed Stochastic Gradient Methods for Finding Local Minima
ALT 2022
Last Iterate Risk Bounds of SGD with Decaying Stepsize for Overparameterized Linear Regression
ICML 2022
Learning Neural Contextual Bandits through Perturbed Rewards
ICLR 2022
Learning Stochastic Shortest Path with Linear Function Approximation
ICML 2022
Learning Two-Player Markov Games: Neural Function Approximation and Correlated Equilibrium
NeurIPS 2022
Locally Differentially Private Reinforcement
Learning for Linear Mixture Markov Decision
Processes
ACML 2022
Nearly Minimax Optimal Regret for Learning Infinite-horizon Average-reward MDPs with Linear Function Approximation
AISTATS 2022
Nearly Optimal Algorithms for Linear Contextual Bandits with Adversarial Corruptions
NeurIPS 2022
Near-optimal Policy Optimization Algorithms for Learning Adversarial Linear Mixture MDPs
AISTATS 2022
Neural Contextual Bandits with Deep Representation and Shallow Exploration
ICLR 2022
On the Convergence of Certified Robust Training with Interval Bound Propagation
ICLR 2022
On the Sample Complexity of Learning Infinite-horizon Discounted Linear Kernel MDPs
ICML 2022
Risk Bounds of Multi-Pass SGD for Least Squares in the Interpolation Regime
NeurIPS 2022
Self-training Converts Weak Learners to Strong Learners in Mixture Models
AISTATS 2022
The Power and Limitation of Pretraining-Finetuning for Linear Regression under Covariate Shift
NeurIPS 2022
Towards Understanding the Mixture-of-Experts Layer in Deep Learning
NeurIPS 2022
Agnostic Learning of Halfspaces with Gradient Descent via Soft Margins
ICML 2021
Almost Optimal Anytime Algorithm for Batched Multi-Armed Bandits
ICML 2021
Benign Overfitting of Constant-Stepsize SGD for Linear Regression
COLT 2021
Direction Matters: On the Implicit Bias of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Moderate Learning Rate
ICLR 2021
Double Explore-then-Commit: Asymptotic Optimality and Beyond
COLT 2021
Do Wider Neural Networks Really Help Adversarial Robustness?
NeurIPS 2021
Exploring Architectural Ingredients of Adversarially Robust Deep Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2021
Faster Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics for Non-Log-Concave Sampling
UAI 2021
How Much Over-parameterization Is Sufficient to Learn Deep ReLU Networks?
ICLR 2021
Iterative Teacher-Aware Learning
NeurIPS 2021
Logarithmic Regret for Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
ICML 2021
MOTS: Minimax Optimal Thompson Sampling
ICML 2021
Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Discounted MDPs
NeurIPS 2021
Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Linear Mixture Markov Decision Processes
COLT 2021
Neural Thompson Sampling
ICLR 2021
On the Convergence of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Stochastic Gradients
ICML 2021
Provable Generalization of SGD-trained Neural Networks of Any Width in the Presence of Adversarial Label Noise
ICML 2021
Provable Robustness of Adversarial Training for Learning Halfspaces with Noise
ICML 2021
Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Discounted MDPs with Feature Mapping
ICML 2021
Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation under Adaptivity Constraints
NeurIPS 2021
Proxy Convexity: A Unified Framework for the Analysis of Neural Networks Trained by Gradient Descent
NeurIPS 2021
Pure Exploration in Kernel and Neural Bandits
NeurIPS 2021
Reward-Free Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
NeurIPS 2021
Risk Bounds for Over-parameterized Maximum Margin Classification on Sub-Gaussian Mixtures
NeurIPS 2021
The Benefits of Implicit Regularization from SGD in Least Squares Problems
NeurIPS 2021
Towards Understanding the Spectral Bias of Deep Learning
IJCAI 2021
Uniform-PAC Bounds for Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
NeurIPS 2021
Variance-Aware Off-Policy Evaluation with Linear Function Approximation
NeurIPS 2021
Variance-reduced First-order Meta-learning for Natural Language Processing Tasks
NAACL 2021
Accelerated Factored Gradient Descent for Low-Rank Matrix Factorization
AISTATS 2020
A Finite-Time Analysis of Q-Learning with Neural Network Function Approximation
ICML 2020
A Finite-Time Analysis of Two Time-Scale Actor-Critic Methods
NeurIPS 2020
A Frank-Wolfe Framework for Efficient and Effective Adversarial Attacks
AAAI 2020
A Generalized Neural Tangent Kernel Analysis for Two-layer Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2020
Agnostic Learning of a Single Neuron with Gradient Descent
NeurIPS 2020
A Knowledge Transfer Framework for Differentially Private Sparse Learning
AAAI 2020
Closing the Generalization Gap of Adaptive Gradient Methods in Training Deep Neural Networks
IJCAI 2020
Generalization Error Bounds of Gradient Descent for Learning Over-Parameterized Deep ReLU Networks
AAAI 2020
Improving Adversarial Robustness Requires Revisiting Misclassified Examples
ICLR 2020
Improving Neural Language Generation with Spectrum Control
ICLR 2020
Neural Contextual Bandits with UCB-based Exploration
ICML 2020
On the Global Convergence of Training Deep Linear ResNets
ICLR 2020
Optimization Theory for ReLU Neural Networks Trained with Normalization Layers
ICML 2020
Rank Aggregation via Heterogeneous Thurstone Preference Models
AAAI 2020
Sample Efficient Policy Gradient Methods with Recursive Variance Reduction
ICLR 2020
Stochastic Nested Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization
JMLR 2020
Stochastic Recursive Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularization Methods
AISTATS 2020
Understanding the Intrinsic Robustness of Image Distributions using Conditional Generative Models
AISTATS 2020
Algorithm-Dependent Generalization Bounds for Overparameterized Deep Residual Networks
NeurIPS 2019
An Improved Analysis of Training Over-parameterized Deep Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2019
An Improved Convergence Analysis of Stochastic Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient
UAI 2019
Differentially Private Iterative Gradient Hard Thresholding for Sparse Learning
IJCAI 2019
Generalization Bounds of Stochastic Gradient Descent for Wide and Deep Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2019
Layer-Dependent Importance Sampling for Training Deep and Large Graph Convolutional Networks
NeurIPS 2019
Learning One-hidden-layer ReLU Networks via Gradient Descent
AISTATS 2019
Lower Bounds for Smooth Nonconvex Finite-Sum Optimization
ICML 2019
On the Convergence and Robustness of Adversarial Training
ICML 2019
Sampling from Non-Log-Concave Distributions via Variance-Reduced Gradient Langevin Dynamics
AISTATS 2019
Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods with Recursive Variance Reduction
NeurIPS 2019
Stochastic Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularization Methods
JMLR 2019
Tight Sample Complexity of Learning One-hidden-layer Convolutional Neural Networks
NeurIPS 2019
Accelerated Stochastic Mirror Descent: From Continuous-time Dynamics to Discrete-time Algorithms
AISTATS 2018
A Primal-Dual Analysis of Global Optimality in Nonconvex Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
ICML 2018
A Unified Framework for Nonconvex Low-Rank plus Sparse Matrix Recovery
AISTATS 2018
Continuous and Discrete-time Accelerated Stochastic Mirror Descent for Strongly Convex Functions
ICML 2018
Covariate Adjusted Precision Matrix Estimation via Nonconvex Optimization
ICML 2018
Distributed Learning without Distress: Privacy-Preserving Empirical Risk Minimization
NeurIPS 2018
Fast and Sample Efficient Inductive Matrix Completion via Multi-Phase Procrustes Flow
ICML 2018
Global Convergence of Langevin Dynamics Based Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization
NeurIPS 2018
Stochastic Nested Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization
NeurIPS 2018
Stochastic Variance-Reduced Cubic Regularized Newton Methods
ICML 2018
Stochastic Variance-Reduced Hamilton Monte Carlo Methods
ICML 2018
Third-order Smoothness Helps: Faster Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Finding Local Minima
NeurIPS 2018
A Unified Computational and Statistical Framework for Nonconvex Low-rank Matrix Estimation
AISTATS 2017
A Unified Variance Reduction-Based Framework for Nonconvex Low-Rank Matrix Recovery
ICML 2017
Communication-efficient Distributed Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis
AISTATS 2017
Efficient Algorithm for Sparse Tensor-variate Gaussian Graphical Models via Gradient Descent
AISTATS 2017
High-dimensional Time Series Clustering via Cross-Predictability
AISTATS 2017
High-Dimensional Variance-Reduced Stochastic Gradient Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
ICML 2017
Robust Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation with Arbitrary Corruption
ICML 2017
Speeding Up Latent Variable Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation via Nonconvex Optimization
NeurIPS 2017
Uncertainty Assessment and False Discovery Rate Control in High-Dimensional Granger Causal Inference
ICML 2017
Low-Rank and Sparse Structure Pursuit via Alternating Minimization
AISTATS 2016
On the Statistical Limits of Convex Relaxations
ICML 2016
Optimal Statistical and Computational Rates for One Bit Matrix Completion
AISTATS 2016
Precision Matrix Estimation in High Dimensional Gaussian Graphical Models with Faster Rates
AISTATS 2016
Semiparametric Differential Graph Models
NeurIPS 2016
Towards Faster Rates and Oracle Property for Low-Rank Matrix Estimation
ICML 2016
High Dimensional EM Algorithm: Statistical Optimization and Asymptotic Normality
NeurIPS 2015
Towards a Lower Sample Complexity for Robust One-bit Compressed Sensing
ICML 2015
Robust Tensor Decomposition with Gross Corruption
NeurIPS 2014
Sparse PCA with Oracle Property
NeurIPS 2014
Clustered Support Vector Machines
AISTATS 2013
Unsupervised Link Selection in Networks
AISTATS 2013
Locality Preserving Feature Learning
AISTATS 2012
Selective Labeling via Error Bound Minimization
NeurIPS 2012