Yiding Chen

Biography

I'm currently a student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Xiaojin Zhu. Before joining UW-Madison, I obtained my bachelor degree in Statistics from the Department of Mathematics in Nanjing University.

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My research interests lie in the domain of reinforcement learning, adversarial machine learning and robust machine learning.

Yiding Chen*, Xuezhou Zhang*, Kaiqing Zhang, Mengdi Wang, Xiaojin Zhu. Byzantine-Robust Online and Offline Distributed Reinforcement Learning. arXiv: 2206.00165, 2022.
[arXiv]
Eric Pulick, Shubham Bharti, Yiding Chen, Vladimir Menkov, Yonatan Mintz, Paul Kantor, Vicki M Bier. The Game of Hidden Rules: A New Kind of Benchmark Challenge for Machine Learning. arXiv: 2207.10218, 2022.
[arXiv]
Xuezhou Zhang, Yiding Chen, Xiaojin Zhu and Wen Sun. Corruption-robust offline reinforcement learning. In The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS). 2022
Xuezhou Zhang, Yiding Chen, Xiaojin Zhu and Wen Sun. Robust Policy Gradient against Strong Data Corruption. In In The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2021
Yiding Chen and Xiaojin Zhu. Optimal attack against autoregressive models by manipulating the environment. In The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.
Zhiyan Ding, Yiding Chen, Qin Li and Xiaojin Zhu. Error Lower Bounds of Constant Step-size Stochastic Gradient Descent. arXiv: 1910.08212, 2019.
[arXiv]