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About me

Yifan Shen


I am a PhD candidate in Machine Learning at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi. I am supervised by Dr. Kun Zhang. My research interest mainly focuses on Video Generation, Video Understanding and Causal Representation Learning.


Education

  • 2024-2028 (expected)
    PhD, Machine Learning, MBZUAI

  • 2022-2024
    MSc, Machine Learning, MBZUAI

  • 2018-2022
    BSc, Computer Science, NUIST

Publications

  • Primary Contributor
    • ICML 2025 Under Review. "Controllable Video Generation with Provable Disentanglement." Yifan Shen*, Peiyuan Zhu*, Zijian Li, Shaoan Xie, Zeyu Tang, Namrata Deka, Zongfang Liu, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang.
    • ICLR 2025 ORAL. "On the identification of temporally causal representation with instantaneous dependence." Zijian Li*, Yifan Shen*, Kaitao Zheng, Ruichu Cai, Xiangchen Song, Mingming Gong, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang.
    • ICML 2024 Poster. "CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process." Guangyi Chen*, Yifan Shen*, Zhenhao Chen*, Xiangchen Song, Yuewen Sun, Weiran Yao, Xiao Liu, Kun Zhang.
  • Collaborative Projects
    • ICLR 2025 Poster. "Improving Large Language Model based Multi-Agent Framework through Dynamic Workflow Updating." Boye Niu, Yiliao Song, Kai Lian, Yifan Shen, Yu Yao, Kun Zhang, Tongliang Liu.
    • WWW 2025 Poster. "Learning Disentangled Representation for Multi-Modal Time-Series Sensing Signals." Ruichu Cai, Zhifan Jiang, Kaitao Zheng, Zijian Li, Weilin Chen, Xuexin Chen, Yifan Shen, Guangyi Chen, Zhifeng Hao, Kun Zhang.

Professional Experience

  • Research Intern, ByteDance, Algorithm Middle Platform (2023)
  • SDE Intern, Tencent, Tencent Cloud (2022)
  • SDE Intern, Microsoft STCA, Bing Ads (2021)
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Machine Learning Group (2021)

Projects

  • Mini-alpha Multi-agent System for NeurIPS Neural MMORPG Competition (2022)

  • 3D Rougelike Game AI Based on Vision (2021)

  • Database index compression with machine learning (2020)

Honors & Awards

  • 2021
    • 1st prize in ByteDance summer camp
  • 2020
    • Gold Award in Jiangsu Collegiate Programming Contest
    • Bronze Award in International Collegiate Programming Contest (East Continent Final)
  • 2019
    • Silver Award in International Collegiate Programming Contest (Nanjing Site)
    • Silver Award in Chinese Collegiate Programming Contest (Qinghuangdao Site)