Yifan Shen
I am a PhD candidate in Machine Learning at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi. I am supervised by Dr. Kun Zhang. My research interest mainly focuses on Video Generation, Video Understanding and Causal Representation Learning.
Education
- 2024-2028 (expected) 
 PhD, Machine Learning, MBZUAI
- 2022-2024 
 MSc, Machine Learning, MBZUAI
- 2018-2022 
 BSc, Computer Science, NUIST
Publications
- Primary Contributor
- ICML 2025 Under Review. "Controllable Video Generation with Provable Disentanglement." Yifan Shen*, Peiyuan Zhu*, Zijian Li, Shaoan Xie, Zeyu Tang, Namrata Deka, Zongfang Liu, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang.
- ICLR 2025 ORAL. "On the identification of temporally causal representation with instantaneous dependence." Zijian Li*, Yifan Shen*, Kaitao Zheng, Ruichu Cai, Xiangchen Song, Mingming Gong, Guangyi Chen, Kun Zhang.
- ICML 2024 Poster. "CaRiNG: Learning Temporal Causal Representation under Non-Invertible Generation Process." Guangyi Chen*, Yifan Shen*, Zhenhao Chen*, Xiangchen Song, Yuewen Sun, Weiran Yao, Xiao Liu, Kun Zhang.
- Collaborative Projects
- ICLR 2025 Poster. "Improving Large Language Model based Multi-Agent Framework through Dynamic Workflow Updating." Boye Niu, Yiliao Song, Kai Lian, Yifan Shen, Yu Yao, Kun Zhang, Tongliang Liu.
- WWW 2025 Poster. "Learning Disentangled Representation for Multi-Modal Time-Series Sensing Signals." Ruichu Cai, Zhifan Jiang, Kaitao Zheng, Zijian Li, Weilin Chen, Xuexin Chen, Yifan Shen, Guangyi Chen, Zhifeng Hao, Kun Zhang.
Professional Experience
- Research Intern, ByteDance, Algorithm Middle Platform (2023)
- SDE Intern, Tencent, Tencent Cloud (2022)
- SDE Intern, Microsoft STCA, Bing Ads (2021)
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, Machine Learning Group (2021)
Projects
- Mini-alpha Multi-agent System for NeurIPS Neural MMORPG Competition (2022) 
- 3D Rougelike Game AI Based on Vision (2021) 
- Database index compression with machine learning (2020) 
Honors & Awards
- 2021- 1st prize in ByteDance summer camp
 
- 2020- Gold Award in Jiangsu Collegiate Programming Contest
- Bronze Award in International Collegiate Programming Contest (East Continent Final)
 
- 2019- Silver Award in International Collegiate Programming Contest (Nanjing Site)
- Silver Award in Chinese Collegiate Programming Contest (Qinghuangdao Site)