Dr Yanxi Li
Research Assistant Professorship (RAP) @ NTU Sg, PhD, Google PhD Fellow
Research Interests: Trustworthiness & Efficiency
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Research Assistant Professorship (RAP) @ NTU Sg, PhD, Google PhD Fellow
Research Interests: Trustworthiness & Efficiency
Google Scholar LinkedIn| 9/2025 - Present |
Research Assistant Professorship (RAP)
AUMOVIO-NTU Corporate Lab (ANCL)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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| 10/2021 - 2/2025 |
Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science)
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Journal
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Minjing Dong, Yanxi Li, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2025.
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| [2] |
Neural Architecture Search via Proxy Validation [Link]
Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022.
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| [3] |
Neural Architecture Tuning with Policy Adaptation [Link]
Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Yixing Xu, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In Neurocomputing, 2022.
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Conference
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Optimizing Quantized Diffusion Models via Distillation with Cross-Timestep Error Correction [Link] NEW
Yanxi Li* & Chengbin Du*
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
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| [2] |
Position: AI Scaling: From Up to Down and Out [arXiv] NEW
Yunke Wang*, Yanxi Li* & Chang Xu
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Position Track, 2025.
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| [3] |
State Space Models: A Naturally Robust Alternative to Transformers in Computer Vision [Link] NEW
Chengbin Du, Yanxi Li & Chang Xu
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) R2-FM Workshop, 2025.
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| [4] |
Harnessing Edge Information for Improved Robustness in Vision Transformers [Link]
Yanxi Li, Chengbin Du & Chang Xu
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
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| [5] |
Xiaohuan Pei, Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Chang Xu
In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
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| [6] |
Trade-off between Robustness and Accuracy of Vision Transformers [Link]
Yanxi Li & Chang Xu
In The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
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| [7] |
Stable Diffusion is Unstable [Link] 🚩 Spotlight
Chengbin Du, Yanxi Li, Zhongwei Qiu & Chang Xu
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
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| [8] |
Neural Architecture Search for Wide Spectrum Adversarial Robustness [Link] 🚩 Distinguished Paper Award
Zhi Cheng, Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Xiu Su, Shan You & Chang Xu
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.
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| [9] |
Spatial-channel Token Distillation for Vision MLPs [Link]
Yanxi Li, Xinghao Chen, Minjing Dong, Yehui Tang, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022.
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| [10] |
An Image Patch Is a Wave: Phase-Aware Vision MLP [Link]
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.
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| [11] |
One-shot Graph Neural Architecture Search with Dynamic Search Space [Link]
Yanxi Li, Zean Wen, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.
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| [12] |
Neural Architecture Dilation for Adversarial Robustness [Link]
Yanxi Li, Zhaohui Yang, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.
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| [13] |
Prioritized Architecture Sampling with Monto-Carlo Tree Search [Link]
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.
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| [14] |
Neural Architecture Search in A Proxy Validation Loss Landscape [Link]
Yanxi Li, Minjing Dong, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020.
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| [15] |
Adapting Neural Architectures Between Domains [Link]
Yanxi Li, Zhaohui Yang, Yunhe Wang & Chang Xu
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020.
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Pre-printing
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GPT Self-Supervision for a Better Data Annotator [arXiv]
Xiaohuan Pei, Yanxi Li, Zijian Wang & Chang Xu
In arXiv preprint. arXiv:2306.04349, 2023.
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* = Equal contribution.
| 2025 |
Research Assistant Professorship (RAP)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
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| 2023 |
Google PhD Fellowship
In the field of Machine Perception, Speech Technology and Computer Vision. One of the 81 recipients globally.
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| 2023 |
Distinguished Paper Award
"Neural Architecture Search for Wide Spectrum Adversarial Robustness". In The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.
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| 2021 |
Faculty of Engineering Research Scholarship
Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney
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Journal Reviewer
IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS (was TNN), IEEE TMM, TMLR, Neurocomputing.
Conference Reviewer
NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ICDM, ACM SIGKDD, ACM MM, IJCAI.