YUAN Yancheng
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
I also serve as an Assistant Director of the Research Center for Intelligent Operations Research and an Associate Director of the CITIC-PolyU Interdisciplinary Mathematical Digital AI Joint Laboratory. Previously, I was a research fellow at NUS NExT Center working with Prof. Tat-Seng CHUA.
Education
Research Interests
- Optimization Algorithm design, analysis, and solver development.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundation models and mathematical foundations for data science.
- Data-driven Applications Recommendation systems and healthcare analytics.
Selected Recent Publications
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Randomly projected convex clustering model: Motivation, realization, and cluster recovery guarantees
Ziwen Wang, Yancheng Yuan, Jiaming Ma, Tieyong Zeng, and Defeng Sun
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 26(137):1−57, 2025.
LAMBDA: A large model based data agent
Maojun Sun , Ruijian Han , Binyan Jiang , Houduo Qi , Defeng Sun, Yancheng Yuan, and Jian Huang
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2025.
Selected as a discussion paper!
Accelerating preconditioned ADMM via degenerate proximal point mappings
Defeng Sun, Yancheng Yuan, Guojun Zhang, and Xinyuan Zhao
SIAM Journal on Optimization, 35: 2 1165--1193, 2025.
Selected Open-source Software
HPR-LP
SolverA GPU-accelerated solver for large-scale linear programming.
HPR-QP
SolverA GPU-accelerated solver for large-scale convex composite quadratic programming.
HOT
Optimal TransportA GPU-accelerated solver designed specifically for large-scale 2D optimal transport problems.
Adaptive Sieving
A MATLAB software designed to use adaptive sieving (a dimension reduction technique) for sparse optimization problems.
LAMBDA
LLM AgentA coding-free multi-agent data analysis system leveraging the power of large language models.