Si-Yang Liu @ LAMDA, NJU-AI

刘思阳
Si-Yang Liu
Email: liusy [at] lamda.nju.edu.cn Copy
Resume / 简历

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Short Biography

I received my B.Sc. degree from School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, in June 2024. In the same year, I was admitted to study for a M.Sc. degree in Nanjing University without entrance examination in the LAMDA Group led by professor Zhi-Hua Zhou, under the supervision of Associate Prof Han-Jia Ye.

Research Interests

My research interests include Machine Learning and Data Mining, with a primary focus on Tabular Foundation Models, LLMs for Assisting Tabular Data Prediction, evaluation and benchmarking of tabular learning models, and I am currently exploring LLM-based generative recommendation.

Publications

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Tabular Foundation Model

SwiftPFN
  • Si-Yang Liu, Han-Jia Ye. TabSwift: An Efficient Tabular Foundation Model with Row-Wise Attention. ICML 2026, Spotlight, CCF-A, 第一作者. Spotlight CCF-A First Author

WSFG
  • Si-Yang Liu, Han-Jia Ye. TabPFN Unleashed: A Scalable and Effective Solution to Tabular Classification Problems. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025, CCF-A, 第一作者). CCF-A First Author [Paper]

WSFG
  • Han-Jia Ye, Si-Yang Liu, Wei-Lun Chao. A Closer Look at TabPFN v2: Strength, Limitation, and Extension. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS'25, CCF-A, 学生第一作者). CCF-A Student First [Paper]

CAUSALTAB
  • Zi-Rong Li, Si-Yang Liu, Tian-Zuo Wang, Han-Jia Ye. TabCausal: Pretraining Across Causal Environments for Tabular Causal Discovery. In 2nd ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data, 2026 (ICML@FMSD 2026), 第二作者.

Benchmarking Tabular Data Models

WSFG
  • Si-Yang Liu, Hao-Run Cai, Qile Zhou, Huai-Hong Yin, Tao Zhou, Jun-Peng Jiang, Han-Jia Ye. TALENT: A Tabular Analytics and Learning Toolbox. Journal of Machine Learning Research 2025 (JMLR, CCF-A, 第一作者). CCF-A First Author [Paper] [Code]

WSFG
  • Jun-Peng Jiang, Si-Yang Liu, Hao-Run Cai, Qile Zhou, Han-Jia Ye. Representation Learning for Tabular Data: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2026 (TPAMI, CCF-A). CCF-A [Paper] [Code]

WSFG
  • Han-Jia Ye, Si-Yang Liu*, Hao-Run Cai*, Qile Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan. A Closer Look at Deep Learning Methods on Tabular Datasets. Student First [Paper] [Code]

Survey
  • Si-Yang Liu, Han-Jia Ye. From Universal Prediction to Universal Workflows: A Survey of Foundation Models for Structured Data. 第一作者, Under Review. Under Review First Author

LLMs for Assisting Tabular Data Prediction

Look Ahead
  • Si-Yang Liu, Zong-Da Li, Chenming Xu, Han Li, Rui-Qiao Chen, Han-Jia Ye. Look ahead Automated Feature Engineering for Tabular Prediction via Kaggle-Guided Knowledge Transfer. In 2nd ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data, 2026 (ICML@FMSD 2026), 第一作者. First Author

WSFG
  • Si-Yang Liu*, Qile Zhou*, Han-Jia Ye. Make Still Further Progress: Chain of Thoughts for Tabular Data Leaderboard. In 1st ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data, 2025. First Author [Paper]

WSFG
  • Jun-Peng Jiang, Si-Yang Liu, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye. Mind the Modality Gap: Multimodal Representation Learning for Tabular Data with Text Signals. [Paper] [Code]

Other Work

R3-VAE
  • Qiang Wan, Ze Yang, Dawei Yang, Ying Fan, Xin Yan, Si-Yang Liu. R3-VAE: Reference Vector-Guided Rating Residual Quantization VAE for Generative Recommendation. [Paper]

Projects

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TALENT
Tabular Analytics Toolbox

Unified evaluation toolkit for 30+ tabular deep learning models. GitHub Star > 800.

GitHub
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TabPFN-Extensions
Official Extensions

Official extension library for TabPFN, including embedding extraction and advanced usage. Contributor.

GitHub
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Tabular-Survey
Paper Collection

Comprehensive survey and paper list for tabular representation learning research.

GitHub

Teaching Assistant

Introduction to Machine Learning. (For undergraduate students, Autumn, 2025; Prof. Han-Jia Ye)

Introduction to Machine Learning. (For undergraduate students, Autumn, 2024; Prof. Han-Jia Ye)

Service

Conference Reviewer: AAAI'25, ICLR'25, ICLR'26, IJCAI'25, PAKDD'26, ICML'26, NeurIPS'26, EMNLP'26, ICML@FMSD'26

Journal Reviewer: TMLR, TKDE

🏆 ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer

Awards & Honors

南京大学优秀研究生标兵, 2025

比亚迪奖学金, 2025

Correspondence

Email: liusy [at] lamda.nju.edu.cn

Office: Room A215, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xianlin Campus of Nanjing University

Address: National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Xianlin Campus Mailbox 603, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing 210023, China

(南京市栖霞区仙林大道163号, 南京大学仙林校区603信箱, 软件新技术国家重点实验室, 210023.)

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