Hanze Dong

About

Hanze Dong is a research scientist at Salesforce Research. Currently, he also serves as managing editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) . He earned his PhD in Mathematics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he was advised by Tong Zhang. He was also a visiting scholar at UC San Diego, collaborating with Yi-An Ma. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Fudan University under the supervision of Yanwei Fu.

His current research focuses on the post-training and alignment of foundation models, generative modeling, and Monte Carlo sampling. He also has some experience in designing robust and efficient ML algorithms as well as ML theory.

News

[2024-09] Two papers have been accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
[2024-09] Three papers have been accepted to EMNLP 2024 Main Conference.
[2024-09] RLHF Workflow has been accepted at TMLR.
[2024-07] Reverse Transition Kernel is selected as the best paper at ICML 2024 Workshop SPIGM.
[2024-07] Attending ICML 2024 at Vienna, Austria
[2024-06] LMFlow has won Best Demo Award at NAACL 2024!
[2024-05] One paper has been accepted to COLT 2024, which provides the first sampling algorithm that support general non-log-Sobolev distribution with quasi-polynomial computation complexity.
[2024-05] Two papers have been accepted to ICML 2024, including Gibbs sampling from human feedback (GSHF) and stochastic proximal sampler.
[2024-03] Excited to share that LMFlow paper was accepted by NAACL 2024 Demo Track.
[2024-01] Two papers have been accepted to ICLR 2024, including rdMC and Spurious feature diversification.

[2023-12] The defense of the PhD thesis was successfully completed on November 30th, 2023.
[2023-11] Excited to share that RAFT has been accepted to TMLR. [Link].
[2023-07] Attending ICML 2023 at Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA.
[2023-05] Received HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award.
[2023-05] Attending ICLR 2023 at Kigali, Rwanda.
[2023-03] We're thrilled to release our project, LMFlow! This framework streamlines the development of LLMs, including fine-tuning, inference, and RLHF, in a more cost-effective and effortless manner. Our aspiration is that LMFlow will incite a broader range of imaginative applications of LLMs and cultivate a larger community of LLM aficionados!

Research

* indicates equal contribution.

Alignment of Foundation Models

  • RLHF workflow: From Reward Modeling to online RLHF
    Hanze Dong*, Wei Xiong*, Bo Pang*, Haoxiang Wang*, Han Zhao, Yingbo Zhou, Nan Jiang, Doyen Sahoo, Caiming Xiong, Tong Zhang;
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024. [Paper]
  • Iterative Preference Learning from Human Feedback: Bridging Theory and Practice for RLHF under KL-constraint
    Wei Xiong*, Hanze Dong*, Chenlu Ye*, Ziqi Wang, Han Zhong, Heng Ji, Nan Jiang, Tong Zhang;
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.
    ICLR 2024 Workshop on Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models (Oral). [Paper]
  • LMFlow: An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models.
    Shizhe Diao*, Rui Pan*, Hanze Dong*, Kashun Shum, Jipeng Zhang, Wei Xiong, Tong Zhang;
    Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) -- System Demonstration Track, 2024. (Best Demo Award) [Paper] [Github]
  • Raft: Reward ranked finetuning for generative foundation model alignment
    Hanze Dong*, Wei Xiong*, Deepanshu Goyal, Yihan Zhang, Winnie Chow, Rui Pan, Shizhe Diao, Jipeng Zhang, Kashun Shum, Tong Zhang;
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023. [Paper]
  • DetGPT: Detect What You Need via Reasoning
    Renjie Pi, Jiahui Gao, Shizhe Diao, Rui Pan, Hanze Dong, Jipeng Zhang, Lewei Yao, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Lingpeng Kong, Tong Zhang;
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023. [Paper]

Generative Modeling and Monte Carlo Sampling

  • Faster Sampling without Isoperimetry via Diffusion-based Monte Carlo
    Xunpeng Huang, Difan Zou, Hanze Dong, Yian Ma, Tong Zhang;
    Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2024. [Paper]
  • Faster Sampling via Stochastic Gradient Proximal Sampler
    Xunpeng Huang, Difan Zou, Hanze Dong, Yian Ma, Tong Zhang;
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024. [Paper]
  • Reverse Diffusion Monte Carlo.
    Xunpeng Huang*, Hanze Dong*, Yifan Hao, Yian Ma, Tong Zhang;
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. [Paper]
  • Particle-based Variational Inference with Preconditioned Functional Gradient Flow
    Hanze Dong, Xi Wang, Yong Lin, Tong Zhang;
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023. [Paper]
  • Weakly Supervised Disentangled Generative Causal Representation Learning
    Xinwei Shen, Furui Liu, Hanze Dong, Qing Lian, Zhitang Chen, Tong Zhang;
    Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2022. [Paper]
  • Normalizing Flow with Variational Latent Representation
    Hanze Dong*, Shizhe Diao*, Weizhong Zhang, Tong Zhang;
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11638, 2022. [Paper]

Robust Machine Learning

  • Spurious feature diversification improves out-of-distribution generalization
    Yong Lin, Lu Tan, Yifan Hao, Honam Wong, Hanze Dong, Weizhong Zhang, Yujiu Yang, Tong Zhang;
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.
  • Bayesian Invariant Risk Minimization
    Yong Lin*, Hanze Dong*, Hao Wang, Tong Zhang;
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022. (Oral) [Paper]
  • Learning the Compositional Spaces for Generalized Zero-shot Learning
    Hanze Dong, Yanwei Fu, Leonid Sigal, Sung Ju Hwang, Xiangyang Xue;
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2022. [Paper]
  • Vocabulary-informed Zero-shot and Open-set Learning
    Yanwei Fu, Xiaomei Wang, Hanze Dong, Yu-Gang Jiang, Meng Wang, Xiangyang Xue, Leonid Sigal;
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2019. [Paper]
  • Extreme vocabulary learning
    Hanze Dong, Zhenfeng Sun, Yanwei Fu, Shi Zhong, Zhengjun Zhang, Yu-Gang Jiang;
    Frontiers of Computer Science, 2019. [Paper]
  • Local Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks
    Songtao Liu, Rex Ying, Hanze Dong, Lanqing Li, Tingyang Xu, Yu Rong, Peilin Zhao, Junzhou Huang, Dinghao Wu;
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022. [Paper]

Optimization and Efficient Machine Learning

  • Catalyst Acceleration of Error Compensated Methods Leads to Better Communication Complexity
    Xun Qian, Hanze Dong, Tong Zhang, Peter Richtárik;
    International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2023. [Paper]
  • Error Compensated Loopless SVRG for Distributed Optimization
    Xun Qian, Hanze Dong, Peter Richtárik, Tong Zhang;
    OPT2020: 12th Annual Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning, 2020. [Paper]
  • Error Compensated Proximal SGD and RDA
    Xun Qian, Hanze Dong, Peter Richtárik, Tong Zhang;
    OPT2020: 12th Annual Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning, 2020. [Paper]

Machine Learning Theory

  • Mathematical models of Overparameterized Neural Networks
    Cong Fang, Hanze Dong, Tong Zhang;
    Proceedings of the IEEE (PIEEE), 2021. [Paper]
  • Provable Particle-based Primal-Dual Algorithm for Mixed Nash Equilibrium
    Shihong Ding*, Hanze Dong*, Cong Fang, Zhouchen Lin, Tong Zhang;
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00970, 2023. [Paper]

Academic Services

Teaching

    2022-2023 Fall -- MATH 2011: Introduction to Multivariable Calculus.
    2022-2023 Fall -- MATH 6450J/COMP 6211E: Optimization for Machine Learning.
    2021-2022 Spring -- MATH 2011: Introduction to Multivariable Calculus.
    2021-2022 Fall -- MATH 1023: Honor Calculus.
    2020-2021 Spring -- MATH 1014: Calculus II.
    2020-2021 Fall -- MATH 1013: Calculus IB.
    2019-2020 Spring -- MATH 1014: Calculus II.
    2019-2020 Spring -- MATH 2411: Applied Statistics.

Awards

    2024 -- Best Paper Award of ICML 2024 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling.
    2024 -- NAACL Best Demo Paper Award.
    2022/2023 -- RedBird PhD Award, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
    2020/2021/2022 -- Best TA Award, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
    2019 -- Outstanding Graduates, Fudan University.
    2016 -- The First Price, China Undergraduate Physics Tournament
    2015 -- Outstanding Freshmen, Fudan University
    2014 -- Bronze Medal and The First Price, Chinese Physics Olympiad.

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