Publications

Publications can also be found on my Google Scholar page.

2026

  • Improved Gradient Descent Lower Bounds Beyond Nesterov
    Yuhan Ye, Kaizhao Liu
    Preprint, 2026
    Convex Optimization
  • On the Cardinality of the Smith Set Under Impartial Culture with Many Alternatives
    with Zachary Berchenko
    Preprint, 2026
    Social Choice Theory
  • Propagation of Chaos in Contextual Flow Maps
    with Shi Chen, Zhengjiang Lin, and Philippe Rigollet
    NeurIPS, 2026
    Transformers
  • Silver Rate Is (Almost) Optimal for Gradient Descent
    with Yuhan Ye
    Preprint, 2026
    Convex Optimization
  • Silver Rate Is (Almost) Optimal for Gradient Descent: The Strongly Convex Case
    with Yuhan Ye
    Preprint, 2026
    Convex Optimization
  • Statistical Impossibility and Possibility of Aligning LLMs with Human Preferences: From Condorcet Paradox to Nash Equilibrium
    with Qi Long, Zhekun Shi, Weijie J. Su, and Jiancong Xiao
    Annals of Statistics, 2026
    LLM Alignment Social Choice Theory Game Theory

2025

  • Error Bounds for Open Quantum Systems with Harmonic Bosonic Bath
    with Jianfeng Lu
    Quantum, 2025
    Open Quantum Systems
  • Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching
    with Zhekun Shi, Qi Long, Weijie J. Su, and Jiancong Xiao
    Preprint, 2025
    LLM Alignment Social Choice Theory Game Theory
  • Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory
    Jiancong Xiao, Zhekun Shi, Kaizhao Liu, Qi Long, Weijie J. Su
    Preprint, 2025
    LLM Alignment Social Choice Theory

2024

  • Orthogonal Bootstrap: Efficient Simulation of Input Uncertainty
    with Jose Blanchet, Lexing Ying, and Yiping Lu
    ICML, 2024
    Uncertainty Quantification
  • The Local Landscape of Phase Retrieval Under Limited Samples
    with Zihao Wang and Lei Wu
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2024
    Nonconvex Optimization

2018

  • 帕斯卡定理的推广
    with Lingfeng Chen and Yonggang Ren
    中等数学, 2018
    Plane Geometry