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Guande He (何冠德)

Ph.D. student, The University of Texas at Austin

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas of Austin, working with Prof. Mingyuan Zhou. Before that, I was a Master’s student at the TSAIL Group, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, where I was honered to be advised by Prof. Jun Zhu and Prof. Jianfei Chen. I received my B.Eng. from the School of Software, Tsinghua University in 2021.

My research interest includes machine learning and foundation models. I am currently working on developing principled post-training (e.g., distillation, alignment, and self-play refinement) algorithms and efficient sampling techniques for deep generative models.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution; † denotes corresponding authors

  1. NeurIPS
    Consistency Diffusion Bridge Models
    Guande He* , Kaiwen Zheng*, Jianfei Chen, Fan Bao, and Jun Zhu†
    In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2024
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  2. NeurIPS
    Noise Contrastive Alignment of Language Models with Explicit Rewards
    Huayu Chen,  Guande He , Lifan Yuan , Ganqu Cui, Hang Su, and Jun Zhu†
    In The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2024
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  3. ICLR
    Preserving Pre-trained Features Helps Calibrate Fine-tuned Language Models
    Guande He , Jianfei Chen†, and Jun Zhu†
    In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, Kigali, Rwanda, 2023
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Preprints & Workshop Papers

  1. arXiv
    Diffusion Bridge Implicit Models
    Kaiwen Zheng*,  Guande He* , Jianfei Chen, Fan Bao, and Jun Zhu†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15885, 2024
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  2. arXiv
    Vidu: a Highly Consistent, Dynamic and Skilled Text-to-Video Generator with Diffusion Models
    Fan Bao, Chendong Xiang*, Gang Yue*,  Guande He* , Hongzhou Zhu*, Kaiwen Zheng*, Min Zhao*, Shilong Liu*, Yaole Wang*, and Jun Zhu†
    Technical Report, arXiv:2405.04233, 2024
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  3. ICLRW
    Investigating Uncertainty Calibration of Aligned Language Models under the Multiple-Choice Setting
    Guande He , Peng Cui, Jianfei Chen†, Wenbo Hu, and Jun Zhu†
    ICLR 2024 Workshop on Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models (ME-FoMo) , 2023
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  4. arXiv
    Schrodinger Bridges Beat Diffusion Models on Text-to-Speech Synthesis
    Zehua Chen*,  Guande He* , Kaiwen Zheng*, Xu Tan, and Jun Zhu†
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03491, 2023
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Teaching

  • 2024 Fall, TA in STA 235 "Data Science for Business Applications", UT Austin, instructed by Prof. Mingyuan Zhou.
  • 2023 Spring, TA in "Statistical Learning Theory and Applications", Tsinghua University, instructed by Prof. Jun Zhu.

Miscellaneous

My slides for TSAIL reading group:

Other slides I made for presenting ML papers:

Personal

I am an amateur saxophone and (bass) trombone player and I enjoy playing music 🎶 :-)