Soft Label Pruning and Quantization for Large-Scale Dataset Distillation
*IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2026*
lingao-xiao
Yang He
Senior Scientist
I am a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. I also serve as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) under the supervision of Prof. Yi Yang.
Research Interests
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Neural Network Compression
LLM Acceleration
Dataset Compression
News
- 2026.04: Promoted to Senior Scientist at A*STAR.
- 2026.02: One paper accepted to IEEE T-PAMI. Congratulations to Lingao.
- 2026.01: Invited to give a keynote talk at the AAAI 2026 Undergraduate Consortium (UC).
- 2026.01: One paper accepted to ICLR. Congratulations to Chenyue.
- 2025.09: One paper accepted to NeurIPS. Congratulations to Jinhong.
- 2025.04: Grateful to receive A*STAR Career Development Fund (CDF).
- 2025.01: One paper accepted to ICLR. Congratulations to Yalun.
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- 2024.12: One paper accepted to COLING. Congratulations to Binh-Nguyen.
- 2024.09: One paper accepted to NeurIPS. Congratulations to Lingao.
- 2024.01: Two papers accepted to ICLR, one Oral (1.2%) and one Poster.
- 2023.11: One paper accepted to IEEE T-PAMI.
- 2023.09: One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
- 2023.08: Invited to serve as a Session Chair at IJCAI 2023.
- 2023.08: Welcome to my course EE4704 at National University of Singapore (NUS).
Featured Publications
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SCOPE: Saliency-Coverage Oriented Token Pruning for Efficient Multimodal LLMs
*Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)*, 2025
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Swift Cross-Dataset Pruning: Enhancing Fine-Tuning Efficiency in Natural Language Understanding
*International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)*, 2024
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Are Large-scale Soft Labels Necessary for Large-scale Dataset Distillation?
*Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)*, 2024
lingao-xiao
Recent Publications
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Visiting Student
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Visiting student at MReaL lab, advised by Prof. Hanwang Zhang.
Education
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
MSc in Electronic Engineering
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
BSc in Electronic Engineering
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Contact
he_yang AT a-star.edu.sg
1 Fusionopolis Way, 16-16 Connexis, Singapore 138632