Xingrui Yu


About me


Dr. Xingrui Yu is currently a research scientist in Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Before that, he was a Ph.D. student at Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute in University of Technology Sydney(UTS), supervised by Prof. Ivor W. Tsang and closely collaborated with Dr. Bo Han. His research mainly focus on:

  • Trustworthy AI (Robustness, Safety, Security, and Privacy),
  • Reinforcement Learning (RL),
  • Imitation Learning (IL) and Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL),
  • Quality Diversity Imitation Learning (QDIL),
  • Embodied AI, including Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and
  • Agentic AI.

Opportunities

I am always looking for self-motivated student to work with me on cutting-edge research projects. I accept CSC visiting students and research intern students supported by grants or scholarships (e.g., A*STAR SIPGA Scholarship and A*STAR SINGA Scholarship). I am also happy to discuss potential projects of common interests. If you have interest for collaboration, please feel free to drop me an email.

E-mail: yu_xingrui@cfar.a-star.edu.sg
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News

  • One paper is accepted to ICLR 2025.
  • One paper is accepted to AAAI 2025.
  • One paper is accepted to AAMAS 2025.
  • One paper is accepted to JAIR.


Selected Publications

  • Heyang Zhao*, Xingrui Yu*, David Mark Bossens*, Ivor W. Tsang, Quanquan Gu. Beyond-Expert Performance with Limited Demonstrations: Efficient Imitation Learning with Double Exploration. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025, [PDF].

  • Zhenglin Wan*, Anjun Gao*, Xingrui Yu, Pingfu Chao, Jun Song, Maohao Ran. Next-POI Recommendation via Multi-Objective Adversarial Imitation Learning. In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

  • Xingrui Yu*†, Zhenglin Wan*, David Mark Bossens, Yueming Lyu, Qing Guo, and Ivor W. Tsang. Imitation from Diverse Behaviors: Wasserstein Quality Diversity Imitation Learning with Single-Step Archive Exploration. In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2025, [PDF].

  • Xingrui Yu, Bo Han, Ivor W. Tsang. USN: A Robust Imitation Learning Method against Diverse Action Noise. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2024, [PDF].

  • Bo Han, Gang Niu, Xingrui Yu, Quanming Yao, Miao Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Masashi Sugiyama. SIGUA: Forgetting May Make Learning with Noisy Labels More Robust. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020, [PDF].

  • Xingrui Yu, Yueming Lyu and Ivor W. Tsang. Intrinsic Reward Driven Imitation Learning via Generative Model. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020, [PDF] [Code] [Slides] [WebPage].

  • Xingrui Yu, Bo Han, Jiangchao Yao, Gang Niu, Ivor W. Tsang and Masashi Sugiyama. How does Disagreement Help Generalization Against Label Corruption? In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019, [PDF] [Code].

  • Bo Han, Quanming Yao, Xingrui Yu, Gang Niu, Miao Xu, Weihua Hu, Ivor W. Tsang and Masashi Sugiyama. Co-teaching: Robust Training of Deep Neural Networks with Extremely Noisy Labels. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018, [PDF] [Code].

  • Xingrui Yu, He Zhang, Chunbo Luo, Hairong Qi and Peng Ren. Oil Spill Segmentation via Adversarial f-divergence Learning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), 56(9): 4973-4988, 2018, [PDF] [Code].


Academic Service

  • Reviewer of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACML

  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)

  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

  • Reviewer of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

  • Reviewer of Pattern Recognition (PR)

  • Reviewer of Machine Learning (MLJ)


Awards

  • 2020 UTS AAII Best Student Paper Award

  • 2019 ICML Travel Award

  • 2019 Excellent Master Dissertation of Shandong Province

  • 2018 NeurIPS Travel Award