Tianze Yang

Tianze Yang

University of Georgia

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Georgia, advised by Dr. Jin Sun and Dr. Ninghao Liu. My research focuses on multimodal learning and model interpretability, with the goal of enhancing the capability and robustness of multimodal models in real-world scenarios.

Prior to my Ph.D., I received my Master’s degree from the National University of Singapore, where I was advised by Dr. Guillaume Sartoretti and worked on topics at the intersection of robotics and machine learning.

🔥 News

  • 2025.05:  🎉🎉 Our paper Concept-Centric Token Interpretation for Vector-Quantized Generative Models has been accepted to ICML 2025!
  • 2024.11:  🏆 Our work received the Distinguished Paper Award at AMIA 2024.

📝 Publications

* denotes equal contribution

Concept-Centric Token Interpretation for Vector-Quantized Generative Models
Tianze Yang*, Yucheng Shi*, Mengnan Du, Xuansheng Wu, Qiaoyu Tan, Jin Sun, Ninghao Liu
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025

Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context
Tianze Yang*, Tyson Jordan*, Ninghao Liu, Jin Sun
Under review

SearchRAG: Can Search Engines Be Helpful for LLM-based Medical Question Answering?
Yucheng Shi, Tianze Yang, Canyu Chen, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu, Xiang Li, Ninghao Liu
Under review

MKRAG: Medical Knowledge Retrieval Augmented Generation for Medical Question Answering
Yucheng Shi*, Shaochen Xu*, Tianze Yang*, Zhengliang Liu, Tianming Liu, Xiang Li, Ninghao Liu
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA) 2024
(Distinguished Paper Award)

Intent-based deep reinforcement learning for multi-agent informative path planning
Tianze Yang, Yuhong Cao, Guillaume Sartoretti
International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) 2023

Alpha: Attention-based long-horizon pathfinding in highly-structured areas
Chengyang He, Tianze Yang, Tanishq Duhan, Yutong Wang, Guillaume Sartoretti
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024

📖 Educations

  • 2023.08 – Present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Georgia
  • 2021.08 – 2023.06, M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore
  • 2016.09 – 2020.06, B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University