About Me

Gen Li is a third-year Ph.D. student at Clemson University, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaolong Ma and co-advised by Prof. Linlke Guo. His primary research focuses on efficient Machine Learning, algorithm-hardware co-design for mobile devices, and fairness and robustness in broad AI applications.

🔥 News

09/2024, One paper is accepted in NeurIPS 2024.

09/2024, One paper is accepted in S&P 2025.

07/2024, One paper is accepted in ECCV 2024.

05/2024, Two papers are accepted in ICML 2024.

01/2024, One paper is accepted in ICLR 2024.

09/2023, One paper is accepted in NeurIPS 2023.

02/2023, One paper is accepted with spotlight presentation at the ICLR SNN workshop.

02/2023, One paper is accepted as highlight paper (top 2.5%) in CVPR 2023.

Selected Publications

Adversarial Robust ViT-based Automatic Modulation Recognition in Practical Deep Learning-based Wireless Systems

Gen Li, Chun-Chih Lin, Xiaonan Zhang, Xiaolong Ma, Linke Guo

S&P '25 · Acceptance rate: 14.3% · Paper Link

A Single-Step, Sharpness-Aware Minimization is All You Need to Achieve Efficient and Accurate Sparse Training

Jie Ji, Gen Li, Jingjing Fu, Fatemeh Afghah, Linke Guo, Xiaoyong Yuan, Xiaolong Ma

NeurIPS '24 · Acceptance rate: 25.8% · Paper Link

Data Overfitting for On-Device Super-Resolution with Dynamic Algorithm and Compiler Co-Design

Gen Li, Zhihao Shu, Jie Ji, Minghai Qin, Fatemeh Afghah, Wei Niu, Xiaolong Ma

ECCV '24 · Acceptance rate: 27.9% · Paper Link

Advancing Dynamic Sparse Training by Exploring Optimization Opportunities

Jie Ji*, Gen Li*, Lu Yin, Minghai Qin, Geng Yuan, Linke Guo, Shiwei Liu, Xiaolong Ma

ICML '24 · Acceptance rate: 27.5% · Paper Link

Outlier weighed layerwise sparsity (owl): A missing secret sauce for pruning llms to high sparsity

Lu Yin, You Wu, Zhenyu Zhang, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Yaqing Wang, Yiling Jia, Gen Li, Ajay Jaiswal, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Yi Liang, Michael Bendersky, Zhangyang Wang, Shiwei Liu

ICML '24 · Acceptance rate: 27.5% · Paper Link

NeurRev: Train Better Sparse Neural Network Practically via Neuron Revitalization

Gen Li, Lu Yin, Jie Ji, Wei Niu, Minghai Qin, Bin Ren, Linke Guo, Shiwei Liu, Xiaolong Ma

ICLR '24 · Acceptance rate: 31% · Paper Link

Dynamic Sparsity Is Channel-Level Sparsity Learner

Lu Yin, Gen Li, Meng Fang, Li Shen, Tianjin Huang, Zhangyang Wang, Vlado Menkovski, Xiaolong Ma, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Shiwei Liu

NeurIPS '23 · Acceptance rate: 26.1% · Paper Link

Towards High-Quality and Efficient Video Super-Resolution via Spatial-Temporal Data Overfitting

Gen Li, Jie Ji, Minghai Qin, Wei Niu, Bin Ren, Fatemeh Afghah, Linke Guo, Xiaolong Ma

CVPR '23 · Highlight paper: top 2.5% · Paper Link