I am a research scientist in Sakana AI. Before that, I was a research scientist in Google DeepMind (formerly Google Brain) based in Tokyo, after I had obtained my PhD in Computer Science at Stony Brook University in May 2019 advised by Prof. Steven Skiena. and my B.S. in Computer Science and Technology at Fudan University in 2014 advised by Prof. Yanghua Xiao.
My research interests lie in generative models and representation learning,
as well as their applications in image generation, natural language processing, knowledge base modeling, social network modeling, bioinformatics, and much more.
Recently I particularly focus on the interdisciplinary research of creativity / humanities research and machine intelligence such as using either non-differentiable evolution strategies or differentiable operations.
Please also see my Research Statment (PDF),
my Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
and my Google Scholar page for details of my research.
In Google I am honored to work with my wonderful teammates Yujin Tang, Bert Chan, Tarin Clanuwat et. al. Their works can be found in respective websites.
Concept level semantic analysis with Zhongyuan Wang
Xingyou Song, Yingtao Tian, Robert Tjarko Lange, Chansoo Lee, Yujin Tang, Yutian Chen
[paper]
Accepted to International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024
Yingtao Tian
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'24. Oral Presentation.
Faraz Faruqi, Yingtao Tian, Vrushank Phadnis, Varun Jampani, Stefanie Mueller
[paper]
GenAICHI 2024: Generative AI and HCI at CHI 2024
Robert Tjarko Lange, Yingtao Tian, Yujin Tang
[paper]
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2024
Robert Tjarko Lange, Yingtao Tian, Yujin Tang
[paper]
[paper (ACM DL)]
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2024
You-Jun Chen, Hsin-Yi Hsieh, Yu Tung Lin, Yingtao Tian, Bert Chan, Yu-Sin Liu, Yi-Hsuan Lin, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
[paper]
[bib]
The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023)
Robert Tjarko Lange, Yujin Tang, Yingtao Tian
[paper]
Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS 2023) Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track
Asanobu Kitamoto, Jared Hwang, Bastien Vuillod, Lucas Gautier, Yingtao Tian, Tarin Clanuwat
[paper]
[dataset]
Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS 2023) Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track
Ryosuke Takata, Yujin Tang, Yingtao Tian, Norihiro Maruyama, Hiroki Kojima, Takashi Ikegami
[paper]
The 2023 Conference on Artificial Life
Yingtao Tian
[paper]
[supplimentary]
[colab notebook]
Working paper
Shanchuan Wan, Yujin Tang, Yingtao Tian, Tomoyuki Kaneko
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-23
Yingtao Tian, Marco Cuturi, David Ha
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'22
Yujin Tang, Yingtao Tian, David Ha
[paper]
[code]
In the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2022.
Marco Cuturi, Laetitia Meng-Papaxanthos, Yingtao Tian, Charlotte Bunne, Geoff Davis, Olivier Teboul
[paper]
[code]
In submission.
Yingtao Tian, David Ha
[paper]
[paper (online, animated)]
[Colab:
Concrete Image,
Abstract Concept]
[repo]
The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2022. Oral Presentation.
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design Workshop, NeurIPS 2021
Yingtao Tian, Tarin Clanuwat, Chikahiko Suzuki, Asanobu Kitamoto
[paper]
[dataset]
[project]
In the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'21
Yingtao Tian, Chikahiko Suzuki, Tarin Clanuwat, Mikel Bober-Irizar, Alex Lamb, Asanobu Kitamoto
[paper]
[dataset]
[project]
In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC'20
Wenlu Wang, Yingtao Tian, Haixun Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering (ICDE) 2020
Muhao Chen*, Yingtao Tian*, Haochen Chen, Kai-Wei Chang, Steven Skiena, Carlo Zaniolo (* Equal Contribution)
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
(CoNLL) 2019
Jingjing Li, Wenlu Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, Yingtao Tian and Haixun Wang
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in
Geographic Information Systems 2019
Haochen Chen, Syed Fahad Sultan, Yingtao Tian, Muhao Chen and Steven Skiena
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM) 2019
Weijia Shi, Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Kai-Wei Chang
[paper]
In the Proceedings of the 4th ACL Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) 2019
Yingtao Tian, Haochen Chen, Bryan Perozzi, Muhao Chen, Xiaofei Sun, Steven Skiena
[paper]
In the proceeding of the 41st European Conference on Information
Retrieval (ECIR 2019)
Haochen Chen, Xiaofei Sun, Yingtao Tian, Muhao Chen, Bryan Perozzi and Steven Skiena
[paper]
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM) 2018
Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Alisa Yurovsky, Yingtao Tian, Steven Skiena
[paper]
In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB), 2018.
Vivek Kulkarni, Yingtao Tian , Parth Dandiwala, Steven Skiena
[paper]
In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2018.
Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian , Kai-Wei Chang, Steven Skiena, Carlo Zaniolo
[paper]
In Proceedings of the 27th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018.
Hanjun Dai*, Yingtao Tian * , Bo Dai, Steven Skiena, Le
Song (* Equal Contribution)
[paper]
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning
Representations (ICLR), 2018.
Best paper award, NIPS 2017 workshop for Machine Learning for
Molecules and Materials.
Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Xuelu Chen, Zijun Xue, Carlo Zaniolo
[paper]
In Proceedings of the 17th SIAM International Conference on Data
Mining (SDM), SIAM 2018.
Yanghua Jin, Jiakai Zhang, Minjun Li, Yingtao Tian,
Huachun Zhu, Zhihao Fang
[paper]
[web demo]
Accepted and presented in spotlight, NIPS 2017 workshop for
Machine Learning for Creativity and Design.
Muhao Chen, Yingtao Tian, Mohan Yang, Carlo Zaniolo
[paper]
[code]
[data]
In Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), IJCAI/AAAI Press 2017.