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Yanxi Li

🎓 PhD Student @ USYD / Google PhD Fellow

Deep Learning / Computer Vision / Efficiency / Trustworthiness

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Publications

Journal

[1]
Adversarially Robust Neural Architectures
Minjing Dong, Yanxi Li, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025. 🚩
[2]
Neural Architecture Search via Proxy Validation
Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022. 🚩
[3]
Neural Architecture Tuning with Policy Adaptation
Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Yixing Xu, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In Neurocomputing, 2022.

Conference

[4]
Optimizing Quantized Diffusion Models via Distillation with Cross-Timestep Error Correction
Yanxi Li & Chengbin Du
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
[5]
Harnessing Edge Information for Improved Robustness in Vision Transformers
Yanxi Li, Chengbin Du & Chang Xu
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
[6]
Neural Architecture Retrieval
Xiaohuan Pei, Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Chang Xu
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
[7]
Trade-off between Robustness and Accuracy of Vision Transformers
Yanxi Li & Chang Xu
In The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
[8]
Stable Diffusion is Unstable
Chengbin Du, Yanxi Li, Zhongwei Qiu & Chang Xu
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023. 🚩 Spotlight.
[9]
Neural Architecture Search for Wide Spectrum Adversarial Robustness
Zhi Cheng, Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Xiu Su, Shan You & Chang Xu
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023. 🚩 Distinguished Paper Award
[10]
Spatial-channel Token Distillation for Vision MLPs
Yanxi Li, Xinghao Chen, Minjing Dong, Yehui Tang, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022.
[11]
An Image Patch Is a Wave: Phase-Aware Vision MLP
Yehui Tang, Kai Han, Jianyuan Guo, Chang Xu, Yanxi Li, Chao Xu & Yunhe Wang
In The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
[12]
One-shot Graph Neural Architecture Search with Dynamic Search Space
Yanxi Li, Zean Wen, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.
[13]
Neural Architecture Dilation for Adversarial Robustness
Yanxi Li, Zhaohui Yang, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.
[14]
Prioritized Architecture Sampling with Monto-Carlo Tree Search
Xiu Su, Tao Huang, Yanxi Li, Shan You, Fei Wang, Chen Qian, Changshui Zhang & Chang Xu
In The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[15]
Neural Architecture Search in A Proxy Validation Loss Landscape
Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020.
[16]
Adapting Neural Architectures Between Domains
Yanxi Li, Zhaohui Yang, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.

Pre-printing

[17]
AI Scaling: From Up to Down and Out
Yunke Wang, Yanxi Li & Chang Xu
In arXiv preprint. arXiv:2502.01677, 2025.
[18]
Understanding Robustness of Visual State Space Models for Image Classification
Chengbin Du, Yanxi Li & Chang Xu
In arXiv preprint. arXiv:2403.10935, 2024.
[19]
GPT Self-Supervision for a Better Data Annotator
Xiaohuan Pei, Yanxi Li, Zijian Wang & Chang Xu
In arXiv preprint. arXiv:2306.04349, 2023.

Awards and Honors

2023
Google PhD Fellowship
In the field of Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision. One of the 81 recipients globally.
2023
Distinguished Paper Award
Neural Architecture Search for Wide Spectrum Adversarial Robustness. Zhi Cheng, Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Xiu Su, Shan You & Chang Xu. In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.

Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

IEEE TPAMI (2021-2024), IEEE TNNLS (was TNN, 2023-2024), IEEE TMM (2023-2024), TMLR (2023-2024), Neurocomputing (2021-2023).

Conference Reviewer

NeurIPS (2021-2024), ICML (2021-2024), CVPR (2021-2023), ICLR (2023-2024), AAAI (2021-2024), ICCV (2023), ECCV (2022, 2024), ICDM (2021-2022, 2024), ACM SIGKDD (2021) ACM MM (2021).