Yuanlin Duan(段源林)

Ph.D. Student

Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Email: yuanlin.duan@rutgers.edu

Bio

I am a Third-year PhD student in the Department of CS at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers, I got my B.E. degree in Artificial Intelligence at UESTC in 2023. Currently, I am working with Professor He Zhu.

Research Interests

My research interests include Reinforcement Learning, LLM Agents, World Model, Machine Learning in healthcare, etc.

Reinforcement Learning: Model based RL, Goal conditioned RL, Exploration in RL, World Model.
LLM Agents: LLM for Robotics, Agent, Large World Model,
Machine Learning in healthcare: Machine learning (Cox regression model, DID, ISM, etc.), Interpretability.

News

[09/2024]	Two paper were accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
[09/2024]	One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2024.
[09/2023]	Begin my journey of PhD study at Rutgers
[06/2022]	Begin my research in General Medical Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University

Publications

Conference Papers

Abstraction Refinement-guided Program Synthesis for Robot Learning from Demonstrations
Guofeng Cui, Yuning Wang, Wensen Mao, Yuanlin Duan and He Zhu
The OOPSLA issue of the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), 2025
[Paper][Code]

Learning World Models for Unconstrained Goal Navigation
Yuanlin Duan, Wensen Mao and He Zhu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
[Paper][Code]

Exploring the Edges of Latent State Clusters for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Yuanlin Duan, Guofeng Cui and He Zhu
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
[Paper][Code]

MoE-I²: Compressing Mixture of Experts Models through Inter-Expert Pruning and Intra-Expert Low-Rank Decomposition
Cheng Yang, Yang Sui, Jinqi Xiao, Lingyi Huang, Yu Gong, Yuanlin Duan, Wenqi Jia, Miao Yin, Yu Cheng, Bo Yuan
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
[Paper]

Experience

General Medical Center of West China Hospital, Chengdu, China

Research Assistant, Jun 2022 - Aug 2023

Mentor: Dr. Dongze Li

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Fall 2024      Teaching Assistant      CS336: Principles of Information and Data Management
Spring 2024      Teaching Assistant      CS210: Data management for Data Science
Fall 2023      Teaching Assistant      CS210: Data management for Data Science

Service

Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025.

Personal

I am very happy to communicate with others about everything related to life, academics, and entrepreneurship.

I am a follower of value investing and welcome discussions about perspectives on great businesses.

I'm a badminton beginner and would love to find someone of a similar skill level to play with!