Yaohua Wang (耀华 王)

I am a Senior Algorithm Engineer at DAMO Academy of Alibaba Group. Before I joined DAMO, I was an Algorithm Engineer at JD until July 2019. I received my master's degree from Beihang University in 2017. My research interests include Graph Learning, Metric Learning and Efficient Deep Learning in Neural Architecture Search with application in Computer Vision. Email: myslacklife [AT] gmail.com, xiachen.wyh [AT] alibaba-inc.com

News

• [2023/03] 🌞 Two papers were accepted to CVPR 2023 !
• [2022/07] 🌞 One paper were accepted to NeurIPS 2022 !
• [2022/01] 🌞 One paper were accepted to ICLR 2022 !

Experiences

• Senior Algorithm Engineer, DAMO Academy of Alibaba Group, 2019-Present
• Algorithm Engineer, JD.com, 2017-2019

Educations

• Master's Degree, Beihang University, 2014-2017
• Bachelor's Degree, Central University of Finance and Economics, 2010-2014

Publications

Conference

Xuan Shen, Yaohua Wang, Ming Lin, Yilun Huang, Hao Tang, Xiuyu Sun, Yanzhi Wang. DeepMAD: Mathematical Architecture Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Network. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [Arxiv] [OpenReview] [GitHub] [Poster] [video][bib] A novel framework termed Mathematical Architecture Design for Deep CNN to design high-performance CNN models in a principled way.

Yaohua Wang, Fangyi Zhang, Ming Lin, Senzhang Wang, Xiuyu Sun, Rong Jin. Robust Graph Structure Learning over Images via Multiple Statistical Tests. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022. [Arxiv] [OpenReview] [GitHub] [Poster] [video-1min] [video-5min] [bib] A novel method for learning robust graph structures in computer vision tasks where graph structures are not available.

Yaohua Wang, Yaobin Zhang, Fangyi Zhang, Senzhang Wang, Ming Lin, YuQi Zhang, Xiuyu Sun. Ada-NETS: Face Clustering via Adaptive Neighbour Discovery in the Structure Space. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022. [Arxiv] [OpenReview] [GitHub] [Zhihu] [Video] [bib] A novel algorithm named Ada-NETS is proposed to construct the clean graph for GCNs to cluster faces in this paper.

Weihua Chen, Xianzhe Xu, Jian Jia, Hao Luo, Yaohua Wang, Xiuyu Sun, Fan Wang, Rong Jin. Beyond Visual Appearance: a Semantic Controllable Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Human-Centric Visual Tasks. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023. [Arxiv] [OpenReview] [GitHub] [Poster] [video][bib] A controllable self-supervised learning framework to produce representations with different ratios of semantic information.

Journal

• WANG Yaohua, LI Zhoujun, HE Yueying, CHAO Wenhan, ZHOU Jianshe. Research on Key Technology of Automatic Essay Scoring Based on Text Semantic Dispersion. Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2016. [Paper]
• Yuqi Zhang, Wei Li, Yaohua Wang, Zhibin Wang, Hao Li. Beyond Classifiers: Remote Sensing Change Detection with Metric Learning[J]. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14(18): 4478.[Paper]

Pre-print

• Ya Wang, Hesen Chen, Fangyi Zhang, Yaohua Wang, Xiuyu Sun, Ming Lin, Hao Li. Fine-Grained AutoAugmentation for Multi-label Classification. [Arxiv]
• Zhang Yuqi, Xu Xianzhe, Chen Weihua, Wang Yaohua, Zhang Fangyi, Wang Fan, Li Hao. 2nd Place Solution to Google Landmark Retrieval 2021. [Arxiv]

Academic service

Reviewer for Conferences

• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)