Publications
Natural language processing and expressiveness
Xueying Bai, Jinghuan Shang, Yifan Sun, Niranjan Balasubramanian. Learning for Expressive Task-Related Sentence Representations (arxiv)
Optimization and flows
Yushen Huang, Taehoon Lee, Yifan Sun. Approximate backwards differentiation of gradient flow. (arxiv)
Zhaoyue Chen, Yifan Sun. Accelerating Frank-Wolfe via Averaging Step Directions. (arxiv)
Zhaoyue Chen, Mokhwa Lee, Yifan Sun. Continuous time Frank-Wolfe does not zig-zag. (arxiv)
Frank Wolfe method
B. Zhou, Y. Sun. Approximate Frank-Wolfe Algorithms over Graph-structured Support Sets. ICML 2022. (arxiv)
Y. Sun, F. Bach. Screening for a Reweighted Penalized Conditional Gradient Method. Submitted to Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization (OJMO). (arxiv) (github)
Structured sparsity and optimization
Y. Sun, F. Bach. Safe Screening for the Generalized Conditional Gradient Method. Technical report, arXiv:2002.09718, 2020. (pdf) (CIRM slides)
Y. Sun, H. Jeong, J. Nutini, M. Schmidt. Are we there yet? Manifold identification of gradient-related proximal methods. AISTATS 2019 (aistats) (opt-online) (poster) (ICCOPT)
Gauges and gauge duality
Z. Fan, H. Jeong, Y. Sun, M. Friedlander. Atomic Decomposition via Polar Alignment: The Geometry of Structured Optimization. Foundations and Trends(r) in Optimization (2020). (pdf)
Y. Sun, M. Friedlander. One-Shot Atomic Detection. IEEE CAMSAP 2019 (IEEE) (pdf)
Y. Sun, R. Estrin, M. Friedlander. Approximate methods for phase retrieval via gauge duality (arxiv) (SIAM CSE slides)
Encoding for distributed optimization
C. Karakus, Y. Sun, S. Diggavi, W. Yin. Redundancy Techniques for Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Optimization and Learning. JMLR 2019. (jmlr)
C. Karakus, Y. Sun, S. Diggavi, W. Yin. Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Optimization Through Data Encoding. NIPS 2018 (nips)
C. Karakus, Y. Sun, S. Diggavi. "Encoded distributed optimization." ISIT 2017 (pdf)
Deep learning
W. Wang, Y. Sun, E. Eriksson, W. Wang, V. Aggarwal. Wide Compression: Tensor Ring Nets. CVPR 2018 (cvpr) (arxiv)
D. Zhang, Y. Sun, B. Eriksson, L. Balzono. Deep Unsupervised Clustering Using Mixture of Autoencoders. (arxiv)
Natural language processing and data mining
Z. Yao, Y. Sun, W. Ding, N. Rao, H. Xiong. Discovery of Evolving Semantics through Dynamic Word Embedding Learning. WSDM 2018. (wsdm) (arxiv)
Y. Sun, N. Rao, W. Ding. A Simple Approach to Learn Polysemous Word Embeddings (arxiv)
V. Rakesh, W. Ding, N. Rao, Y. Sun, A. Ahuja, C. Reddy. A Sparse Topic Model for Extracting Aspect-Specific Summaries from Online Reviews. WWW 2018 (www)
Group sparsity constrained inverse covariance estimator
S. Tao, Y. Sun, D. Boley. Inverse Covariance Estimation with Structured Groups. IJCAI 2017. (ijcai)
Chordal decomposition
Ph.D. Thesis: Decomposition methods for semidefinite optimization
Y. Sun and L. Vandenberghe. Decomposition methods for sparse matrix nearness problems. SIAM. J. Matrix Anal. & Appl., 36(4), 1691–1717, 2015, (pdf) (code directory), (code zip) (poster)
Y. Sun, M. S. Andersen, and L. Vandenberghe. Decomposition in Conic Optimization with Partially Separable Structure.SIAM Journal on Optimization, 24(2):873-897, 2014. (pdf) (code directory) (code zip) (presentation)
Belief propagation and spectrum sensing
F. Penna, Y. Sun, L. Dolecek, and D. Cabric. Detecting and Counteracting Statistical Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 60(4):1806-1822, April 2012. (IEEE)
F. Penna, Y. Sun, L. Dolecek, and D. Cabric. Joint Spectrum Sensing and Detection of Malicious Nodes via Belief Propagation, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, pp.1-5, 5-9 Dec. 2011. (IEEE)
LDPC
Y. Sun and L. Dolecek. Complexity analysis of interior point methods for LP decoding, 2011 Conference Record of the Forty FifthAsilomar Conference on Systems, Signals and Computers, pp.659-663, 6-9 Nov. 2011. (IEEE)
SMST. Yazdi, H. Cho, Y. Sun, S. Mitra, L. Dolecek. Probabilistic analysis of Gallager B faulty decoder. Communications (ICC), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, 7019-7023. (IEEE)
Optical communications
X. Zhou and Y. Sun. US 8682182 B2: Blind carrier frequency offset detection for coherent receivers using quadrature amplitude modulation formats. Patent. (link)
X. Zhou and Y. Sun. US 8908809 B2: Complexity reduced feed forward carrier recovery methods for M-QAM modulation formats. Patent. (link)
Adaptive filters
Y. Sun, J. Chen and K. K. Parhi. Multi-delay block frequency domain adaptive filters with sparse partial subblock update. 2009 Conference Record of the Forty-Third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, pp.206-209, 1-4 Nov. 2009. (IEEE)
Textbook chapters
Jinchao Li, Yifan Sun, and Lieven Vandenberghe. Chapter 3: Linear and Quadratic Optimization in Electrical Engineering. In Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications. SIAM, 2017. (siam)
contact: yifan.0.sun at gmail dot com