Lin Xiaoqiang

PhD student, National University of Singapore

I am a third-year PhD student from National University of Singapore, advised by Assoc. Prof. Bryan Low and Prof. See-Kiong Ng. Before that, I was a full time machine learning engineer at Ant Group. I received my Bachelor's degree from the Fudan University, where I worked with Assoc. Prof. Zhongyu Wei.

Update

[5 Oct 2023] Our instruction optimization paper (INSTINCT) is avaliable on arxiv now.

[10 Aug 2023] I receive Research Achievement Award from NUS School of Computing.

[8 Aug 2023] Our paper "Federated Zeroth-Order Optimization using Trajectory-Informed Surrogate Gradients" is avaliable on arxiv now.

[24 Apr 2023] Our paper "Fair yet Asymptotically Equal Collaborative Learning" is accepted by ICML 2023.

Research Interest

I am broadly interested in research on the Collaborative Machine Learning, Data Valuation, Zeroth-Order Optimization. I used to work on Natrual Language Processing and Social Computing.

Publications

Fair yet Asymptotically Equal Collaborative Learning
Xiaoqiang Lin*, Xinyi Xu*, See-Kiong Ng, Chuan-Sheng Foo, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
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Joint Representation Learning of Legislator and Legislation for Roll Call Prediction
Yuqiao Yang*, Xiaoqiang Lin*, Geng Lin, Zengfeng Huang, Changjian Jiang, Zhongyu Wei
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2020
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(* denotes equal contribution)

Pre-prints

Use Your INSTINCT: INSTruction optimization usIng Neural bandits Coupled with Transformers
Xiaoqiang Lin*, Zhaoxuan Wu*, Zhongxiang Dai, Wenyang Hu, Yao Shu, See-Kiong Ng, Patrick Jaillet, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
Pre-print, 2023 [arXiv]
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Federated Zeroth-Order Optimization using Trajectory-Informed Surrogate Gradients
Yao Shu, Xiaoqiang Lin, Zhongxiang Dai, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
Pre-print, 2023 [arXiv]
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Awards and Honors

Research Achievement Award, NUS, School of Computing, 2023

Professional Services

Conference Reviewer for AISTATS’2024
Conference Reviewer for AAAI’2024
Conference Reviewer for ACML’2023
Conference Reviewer for ICML’2021

Contact

You are very welcome to contact me regarding my research. I typically respond within a few days.
I can be contacted directly at xiaoqiang.lin [at] u.nus.edu