Publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. * denotes equal contribution.

preprint

  1. UCGM: Unified Continuous Generative Models
    Sun, Peng, Jiang, Yi, and Lin, Tao
    (arXiv:2505.07447) preprint
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  2. GMem: Generative Modeling with Explicit Memory
    Tang, Yi*, Sun, Peng*, Cheng, Zhenglin*, and Lin, Tao
    (arXiv:2412.08781) preprint
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  3. Efficient Generative Model Training via Embedded Representation Warmup
    Liu, Deyuan*, Sun, Peng*, Li, Xufeng, and Lin, Tao
    (arXiv:2504.10188) preprint
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  4. CPathAgent: An Agent-based Foundation Model for Interpretable High-Resolution Pathology Image Analysis Mimicking Pathologists’ Diagnostic Logic
    Sun, Yuxuan, Si, Yixuan, Zhu, Chenglu, Zhang, Kai, Shui, Zhongyi, Ding, Bowen, Lin, Tao†, and Yang, Lin†
    (arXiv:2505.20510) preprint
  5. Collaborative Unlabeled Data Optimization
    Shang, Xinyi*, Sun, Peng*, Liu, Fengyuan*, and Lin, Tao
    (arxiv:2505.14117) preprint
  6. Equally Critical: Samples, Targets, and Their Mappings in Datasets
    Yang, Runkang*, Sun, Peng*, Shang, Xinyi*, and Lin, Tao
    (arxiv:2506.01987) preprint
  7. Cognitive Insights and Stable Coalition Matching for Fostering Multi-Agent Cooperation
    Shao, Jiaqi, Yuan, Tianjun, Lin, Tao, and Luo, Bing
    (arXiv:2405.18044) preprint
  8. MorphAgent: Empowering Agents through Self-Evolving Profiles and Decentralized Collaboration
    Lu, Siyuan*, Shao, Jiaqi*, Luo, Bing, and Lin, Tao
    (arXiv:2410.15048); abridged in ICML 2025 MAS workshop preprint
  9. Training-time Neuron Alignment for Improving Linear Mode Connectivity and Model Fusion
    Li, Zexi, Li, Zhiqi, Lin, Jie, Shen, Tao, Lin, Tao†, and Wu, Chao†
    (arXiv:2402.01342) preprint
  10. Federated Unlearning: a Perspective of Stability and Fairness
    Shao, Jiaqi, Lin, Tao, and Luo, Bing
    (arXiv:2402.01276); abridged in ICLR 2024 PML workshop preprint

2025

  1. ICCV 2025
    Client2Vec: Improving Federated Learning by Distribution Shifts Aware Client Indexing
    Guo, Yongxin, Wang, Lin, Tang, Xiaoying, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
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  2. TMI 2025
    PathBench: Advancing the Benchmark of Large Multimodal Models for Pathology Image Understanding at Patch and Whole Slide Level
    Sun, Yuxuan, Wu, Hao, Zhu, Chenglu†, Si, Yixuan, Chen, Qizi, Zhang, Yunlong, Zhang, Kai, Li, Jingxiong, Wang, Yuhan, Sun, Lin, Lin, Tao†, and Yang, Lin†
    In IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) 2025
  3. KDD 2025
    FedGuCci: Making Local Models More Connected in Landscape for Federated Learning
    Li, Zexi*, Lin, Jie*, Li, Zhiqi*, Zhu, Didi, Shen, Tao, Lin, Tao†, Wu, Chao†, and Lane, Nicholas D.
    In ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), abridged in FL@FM-NeurIPS’24 (Oral), 2025
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  4. CVPR 2025
    CPath-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Patch and Whole Slide Image Analysis in Computational Pathology
    Sun, Yuxuan*, Si, Yixuan*, Zhu, Chenglu, Gong, Xuan, Zhang, Kai, Chen, Pingyi, Zhang, Ye, Shui, Zhongyi, Lin, Tao†, and Yang, Lin†
    In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025
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  5. ICLR 2025
    DeFT: Decoding with Flash Tree-Attention for Efficient Tree-structured LLM Inference
    Yao, Jinwei*, Chen, Kaiqi*, Zhang, Kexun, You, Jiaxuan, Yuan, Binhang, Wang, Zeke, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight, abridged in ICLR workshop AGI (Oral), 2025
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  6. ICLR 2025
    Dynamic Mixture of Experts: An Auto-tuning Approach for Efficient Transformer Models
    Guo, Yongxin*, Cheng, Zhenglin*, Tang, Xiaoying, Tu, Zhaopeng, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
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  7. ICLR 2025
    ELICIT: LLM Augmentation Via External In-context Capability
    Wang, Futing*, Yan, Jianhao*, Zhang, Yue, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
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  8. ICLR 2025
    PathGen-1.6M: 1.6 Million Pathology Image-text Pairs Generation through Multi-agent Collaboration
    Sun, Yuxuan, Zhang, Yunlong, Si, Yixuan, Zhu, Chenglu, Shui, Zhongyi, Zhang, Kai, Li, Jingxiong, Xinheng, Lyu, Lin, Tao†, and Yang, Lin†
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Oral, 2025
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  9. ICLR 2025
    GIFT: Unlocking Full Potential of Labels in Distilled Dataset at Near-zero Cost
    Shang, Xinyi*, Sun, Peng*, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
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  10. ICLR 2025
    CollabEdit: Towards Non-destructive Collaborative Knowledge Editing
    Zheng, Jiamu, Zhang, Jinghuai, Du, Tianyu, Zhang, Xuhong, Yin, Jianwei, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), abridged in ICLR 2024 workshop SeT LLM and ICLR 2024 workshop DPFM, 2025
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  11. ICLR 2025
    Enhancing Clustered Federated Learning: Integration of Strategies and Improved Methodologies
    Guo, Yongxin, Tang, Xiaoying, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
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  12. AAAI 2025
    Learn How to Query from Unlabeled Data Streams in Federated Learning
    Sun, Yuchang, Li, Xinran, Lin, Tao, and Zhang, Jun
    In The Association for the Advance of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
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2024

  1. NeurIPS 2024
    Efficiency for Free: Ideal Data Are Transportable Representations
    Sun, Peng, Jiang, Yi, and Lin, Tao
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
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  2. NeurIPS 2024
    Cooperative Hardware-Prompt Learning for Snapshot Compressive Imaging
    Wang, Jiamian, Wu, Zongliang, Zhang, Yulun, Yuan, Xin, Lin, Tao, and Tao, Zhiqiang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
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  3. ECCV 2024
    PathMMU: A Massive Multimodal Expert-Level Benchmark for Understanding and Reasoning in Pathology
    Sun, Yuxuan, Wu, Hao, Zhu, Chenglu, Zheng, Sunyi, Chen, Qizi, Zhang, Kai, Zhang, Yunlong, Wan, Dan, Lan, Xiaoxiao, Zheng, Mengyue, Li, Jingxiong, Lyu, Xinheng, Lin, Tao†, and Yang, Lin†
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Oral, Best Paper Candidate @ ECCV, 2024
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  4. ICML 2024
    FedRC: Tackling Diverse Distribution Shifts Challenge in Federated Learning by Robust Clustering
    Guo, Yongxin, Tang, Xiaoying, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), abridged in ICLR Workshop ML4IoT, 2024
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  5. CVPR 2024
    On the Diversity and Realism of Distilled Dataset: An Efficient Dataset Distillation Paradigm
    Sun, Peng, Shi, Bei, Yu, Daiwei, and Lin, Tao
    In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2024
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  6. ICLR 2024
    Towards Robust Multi-Modal Reasoning via Model Selection
    Liu, Xiangyan*, Li, Rongxue*, Ji, Wei, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
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  7. ICLR 2024
    Increasing Model Capacity for Free: A Simple Strategy for Parameter Efficient Fine-tuning
    Song, Haobo*, Zhao, Hao*, Majumder, Soumajit, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
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  8. Journal
    Decentralized Gradient Tracking with Local Steps
    Liu, Yue, Lin, Tao, Koloskova, Anastasia, and Stich, Sebastian U.
    Optimization Methods and Software, 2024
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2023

  1. NeurIPS 2023
    DELTA: Diverse Client Sampling for Fasting Federated Learning
    Wang, Lin, Guo, Yongxin, Lin, Tao, and Tang, Xiaoying
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
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  2. ICCV 2023
    No Fear of Classifier Biases: Neural Collapse Inspired Federated Learning with Synthetic and Fixed Classifier
    Li, Zexi, Shang, Xinyi, Rui, He, Lin, Tao†, and Wu, Chao†
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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  3. ICML 2023
    On Pitfalls of Test-time Adaptation
    Zhao, Hao*, Liu, Yuejiang*, Alahi, Alexandre, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), abridged in ICLR Workshop on Trustworthy ML 2023 and ICLR Workshop on DG (Spotlight), 2023
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  4. ICML 2023
    FedBR: Improving Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Data via Local Learning Bias Reduction
    Guo, Yongxin, Tang, Xiaoying, and Lin, Tao
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
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  5. ICML 2023
    Revisiting Weighted Aggregation in Federated Learning with Neural Networks
    Li, Zexi, Lin, Tao†, Shang, Xinyi, and Wu, Chao†
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
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  6. ICLR 2023
    Test-Time Robust Personalization for Federated Learning
    Jiang, Liangze*, and Lin, Tao*†
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
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2022

  1. IMWUT 2022
    Learning Disentangled Behaviour Patterns for Wearable-based Human Activity Recognition
    Su, Jie, Wen, Zhenyu, Lin, Tao, and Guan, Yu
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2022
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  2. OPT 2022
    Decentralized Stochastic Optimization with Client Sampling
    Liu, Ziwei, Koloskova, Anastasia, Jaggi, Martin, and Lin, Tao
    NeurIPS Optimization and machine learning (OPT) workshop, 2022
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2021

  1. OPT 2021
    Understanding Memorization from the Perspective of Optimization via Efficient Influence Estimation
    Liu, Futong, Lin, Tao†, and Jaggi, Martin
    NeurIPS Optimization and machine learning (OPT) workshop, 2021
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  2. NeurIPS 2021
    RelaySum for Decentralized Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Data
    Vogels, Thijs*, He, Lie*, Koloskova, Anastasia, Lin, Tao, Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth, Stich, Sebastian U., and Jaggi, Martin
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
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  3. NeurIPS 2021
    An Improved Analysis of Gradient Tracking for Decentralized Machine Learning
    Koloskova, Anastasia, Lin, Tao, and Stich, Sebastian U.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
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  4. ICML 2021
    Quasi-global Momentum: Accelerating Decentralized Deep Learning on Heterogeneous Data
    Lin, Tao, Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth, Stich, Sebastian U., and Jaggi, Martin
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021
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  5. ICML 2021
    Consensus Control for Decentralized Deep Learning
    Kong, Lingjing*, Lin, Tao*†, Koloskova, Anastasia, Jaggi, Martin, and Stich, Sebastian U.
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021
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  6. preprint
    Towards Federated Learning on Time-Evolving Heterogeneous Data
    Guo, Yongxin*, Lin, Tao*, and Tang, Xiaoying
    preprint (arXiv:2112.13246), abridged in FL-ICML workshop, 2021
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2020

  1. NeurIPS 2020
    Ensemble Distillation for Robust Model Fusion in Federated Learning
    Lin, Tao*, Kong, Lingjing*, Stich, Sebastian U, and Jaggi, Martin
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
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  2. NeurIPS 2020
    On the Loss Landscape of Adversarial Training: Identifying Challenges and How to Overcome Them
    Liu, Chen, Salzmann, Mathieu, Lin, Tao, Tomioka, Ryota, and Süsstrunk, Sabine
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
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  3. ICML 2020
    Extrapolation for Large-batch Training in Deep Learning
    Lin, Tao*, Kong, Lingjing*, Stich, Sebastian U., and Jaggi, Martin
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
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  4. EMNLP 2020
    Masking as an Efficient Alternative to Finetuning for Pretrained Language Models
    Zhao, Mengjie*, Lin, Tao*, Jaggi, Martin, and Schütze, Hinrich
    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
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  5. ICLR 2020
    Decentralized Deep Learning with Arbitrary Communication Compression
    Koloskova, Anastasia*, Lin, Tao*, Stich, Sebastian U, and Jaggi, Martin
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
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  6. ICLR 2020
    Don’t Use Large Mini-batches, Use Local SGD
    Lin, Tao, Stich, Sebastian U, Patel, Kumar Kshitij, and Jaggi, Martin
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
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  7. ICLR 2020
    Dynamic Model Pruning with Feedback
    Lin, Tao, Stich, Sebastian U, Barba, Luis, Dmitriev, Daniil, and Jaggi, Martin
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
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  8. CLVision 2020
    Generalized Class Incremental Learning
    Mi, Fei*, Kong, Lingjing*, Lin, Tao, Yu, Kaicheng, and Faltings, Boi
    In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop on Continual Learning, 2020
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2019

  1. ICML 2019
    Exploring Interpretable LSTM Neural Networks over Multi-variable Data
    Guo, Tian, Lin, Tao, and Antulov-Fantulin, Nino
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019
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  2. TPDS 2019
    Ga-par: Dependable Microservice Orchestration Framework for Geo-distributed Clouds
    Wen, Zhenyu, Lin, Tao, Yang, Renyu, Ji, Shouling, Ranjan, Rajiv, Romanovsky, Alexander, Lin, Changting, and Xu, Jie
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2019
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2018

  1. NeurIPS 2018
    Training DNNs with Hybrid Block Floating Point
    Drumond, Mario, Lin, Tao, Jaggi, Martin, and Falsafi, Babak
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018
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2017

  1. IJCAI 2017
    Hybrid Neural Networks for Learning the Trend in Time Series
    Lin, Tao*, Guo, Tian*, and Aberer, Karl
    In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017
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  2. IEEE 2017
    Fog Orchestration for IoT Services: Issues, Challenges and Directions
    Wen, Zhenyu, Yang, Renyu, Garraghan, Peter, Lin, Tao, Xu, Jie, and Rovatsos, Michael
    IEEE Internet Computing, 2017
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  3. VLDB 2017
    Heterogeneous Recommendations: What You Might Like to Read after Watching Interstellar
    Guerraoui, Rachid, Kermarrec, Anne-Marie, Lin, Tao, and Patra, Rhicheek
    Proceedings of the Very Large Data Base Endowment (VLDB), 2017
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