Loka L. K. Li (李隆康)
Hello, World! I am a Ph.D. candidate in machine learning at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), also a member of the Center for Integrative Artificial Intelligence (CIAI). My research interests are mainly in causality and machine learning, with a particular focus on healthcare and biology.
Contact Email: Longkang.Li@mbzuai.ac.ae
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News
Jan.28.2025: I gave an invited talk at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Lab Seminar. (Link)
Jan.25.2025: I passed my Ph.D. candidacy exam! Thanks to all committee members, including: Prof. Kun Zhang, Prof. Jin Tian, Prof. Salman Khan, and Prof. Peter Spirtes.
Jan.22.2025: One paper about causal representation learning was accepted by ICLR 2025!
Sep.2024: One paper about deterministic casual discovery was accepted by NeurIPS 2024!
Jan.2024: One paper about federated causal discovery was accepted by ICLR 2024!
Dec.2023: One paper about imitation learning was accepted by AAAI 2024!
Research
* Equal contributions.
- ψDAG: Projected Stochastic Approximation Iteration for DAG Structure Learning
Klea Ziu, Slavomír Hanzely, Loka Li, Kun Zhang, Martin Takáč, Dmitry Kamzolov
arXiv, 2024.
- Gene Regulatory Network Inference in the Presence of Selection Bias and Latent Confounders
Gongxu Luo, Haoyue Dai, Boyang Sun, Loka Li, Biwei Huang, Petar Stojanov, Kun Zhang
arXiv, 2024.
- Causal Representation Learning from Multimodal Biological Observations
Yuewen Sun, Lingjing Kong, Guangyi Chen, Loka Li, Gongxu Luo, Zijian Li, Yixuan Zhang, Yujia Zheng, Mengyue Yang, Petar Stojanov, Eran Segal, Eric Xing, Kun Zhang.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
- Confidence Matters: Revisiting Intrinsic Self-Correction Capabilities of Large Language Models
Loka Li*, Zhenhao Chen*, Guangyi Chen*, Yixuan Zhang, Yusheng Su, Eric Xing, Kun Zhang.
arXiv, 2024.
- On Causal Discovery in the Presence of Deterministic Relations
Loka Li*, Haoyue Dai*, Hanin Ghothani, Biwei Huang, Jiji Zhang, Shahar Harel, Isaac Bentwich, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang.
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
- Federated Causal Discovery from Heterogeneous Data
Loka Li, Ignavier Ng, Gongxu Luo, Biwei Huang, Guangyi Chen, Tongliang Liu, Bin Gu, Kun Zhang.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
- Learning to Optimize Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling via Graph-based Imitation Learning
Loka Li, Siyuan Liang, Zihao Zhu, Chris Ding, Hongyuan Zha, Baoyuan Wu.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
Invited Talk
Jan.28.2025: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Lab Seminar, the inaugural session. (Link)
Topic: "Causal Learning from Real World: Methodologies and Applications".
Service
- Serving as a reviewer for conferences and journals, including:
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
- International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
- Serving as a teaching assistant for the courses, including:
- 2024/2025 Spring: ML808-Advanced Topics in Causality and Machine Learning. (Instructor: Prof. Jin Tian.)
- 2024/2025 Fall: ML801-Foundations and Advanced Topics in Machine Learning. (Instructor: Prof. Tongliang Liu.)
- 2023/2024 Spring: ML802-Advanced Machine Learning. (Instructor: Prof. Tongliang Liu.)
- 2023/2024 Fall: ML803-Advanced Probabilistic and Statistical Inference. (Instructor: Prof. Kun Zhang.)
Education
Aug.2022 - Present: Ph.D. in Machine Learning. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Aug.2018 - Aug.2020: M.Sc. in Computer Science. The University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Aug.2014 - Jun.2018: B.Eng. in Software Engineering. Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU).
Fun
I run my personal channels on social media in my spare time, where I share my thoughts on study, life, and more.
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