May012026
Paper
Seven papers accepted to ICML 2026
Seven papers from the group were accepted to ICML 2026, spanning efficient LLM training and inference, AI for Math, and optimization theory.
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Updates, papers, awards, talks, and announcements from the MELON Research Group.
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- Apr012026Paper
Papers accepted to IEEE TPAMI and TMLR
Two papers were accepted: one to IEEE TPAMI on communication-efficient distributed learning under data heterogeneity, and one to TMLR on domain weight randomization for LLM pre-training.
- Jan012026Update
Appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Kun Yuan will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
- Jan012026Recruitment
Hiring postdocs and undergraduate research interns
We are hiring postdocs and undergraduate research interns. If you are interested in machine learning, optimization, and AI systems, please get in touch.
- Jan012026Talk
Invited talk at Microsoft Research Asia ACE Talk
Gave a one-hour invited talk on Memory-Efficient LLM Training via Implicit Structures at the Microsoft Research Asia ACE Talk.
- Nov012025Paper
Three papers accepted to JMLR
Three papers were accepted to the Journal of Machine Learning Research, on decentralized bilevel optimization, gradient normalization under heavy-tailed noise, and Byzantine-robust distributed optimization.
- Sep012025Paper
Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025
Three papers were accepted to NeurIPS 2025 on fault-tolerant and memory-efficient LLM optimization and efficient model representation.
- May012025Paper
Five papers accepted to ICML 2025 (two Spotlights)
Five papers were accepted to ICML 2025, including two Spotlights, covering multi-objective learning, decentralized optimization over row-stochastic networks, and subspace optimization for LLMs.