Pengfei Li
I am Pengfei Li, a fourth-year CS Ph.D. student in University of California, Riverside, under the supervision of Prof. Shaolei Ren. Recently, we also work closely with Adam Wierman on Online Convex Optimization problems. I obtained a M.S.E degree in Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR), Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Prof. Alan Yuille and Prof. Gregory Hager.
Prior to joining JHU, I graduated from Zhejiang University with honors, majoring in Electrical Engineering. I was also a member of Advanced Class of Engineering Education (ACEE) in Chu Kochen Honor College (CKC). In summer 2017, I took part in the International Summer Research Program in UCSD under the supervision of Prof. Atanasov as a research intern.
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News
- Two papers accepted by NeurIPS 2023 (one first-authored), see you all in New Orleans !🥳
- Our preprint about LLM water consumption has been covered by AP (Associated Press), check it out here.
- Check out our new preprint about how to achieve evironmental equity in large AI models (e.g. LLM)
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Highlighted Research
My research interests mainly focus on Nonlinear Optimization, Machine Learning and Graph Theory. Representative papers are highlighted, * indicates equal contributions.
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Robust Learning for Smoothed Online Convex Optimization with Feedback Delay
Pengfei Li,
Jianyi Yang,
Adam Wierman,
Shaolei Ren
NuerIPS, 2023
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We study the most general form of Smoothed Online Convex Optimization, a.k.a. SOCO, including multi-step nonlinear switching costs and feedback delay. We propose a novel machine learning (ML) augmented online algorithm, Robustness-Constrained Learning(RCL). Importantly, RCL is the first ML-augmented algorithm with a provable robustness guarantee in the case of multi-step switching cost and feedback delay.
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Anytime-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Policy Prior
Jianyi Yang,
Pengfei Li,
Tongxin Li,
Adam Wierman,
Shaolei Ren
NuerIPS, 2023
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This paper (ACRL) studies the problem of Anytime-Competitive Markov Decision Process (A-CMDP), which optimizes the expected reward while guaranteeing a bounded cost in each round of any episode against a policy prior. Experiments on the application of carbon intelligent computing verify the reward performance and cost constraint guarantee of ACRL.
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Learning for Edge-Weighted Online Bipartite Matching with Robustness Guarantees
Pengfei Li,
Jianyi Yang,
Shaolei Ren
ICML, 2023
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A novel RL-based approach for edge-weighted online bipartite matching with robustness guarantees, achieving both good average-case performance and strict worst-case guarantee. This framework (LOMAR) supports training the RL policy by explicitly considering the online robustification operation.
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Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
Pengfei Li,
Jianyi Yang,
Mohammad A. Islam,
Shaolei Ren
arXiv:2304.03271
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The growing carbon footprint of large artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as GPT-3, has been undergoing public scrutiny. Unfortunately, however, the equally important and enormous water footprint of AI models has remained under the radar. We highlight the necessity of holistically addressing water footprint along with carbon footprint to enable truly sustainable AI.
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Expert-Robustified Learning for Online Optimization with Memory Cost.
Pengfei Li,
Jianyi Yang,
Shaolei Ren
INFOCOM, 2023
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We propose a novel expert-robustified learning (ERL) approach, with a novel projection operator. Our method can be easily extended to multistep memory costs, achieving both good average performance and strict robustness.
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Expert-Calibrated Learning for Online Optimization with Switching Costs
Pengfei Li*,
Jianyi Yang*,
Shaolei Ren
SIGMETRICS, 2022
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EC-L2O is the first to address the "how to learn" challenge for online convex optimization, which requires new algorithm design, closed-form differentiation and theoritical analysis.
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Multi-person 3D Pose Estimation in Crowded Scenes Based on Multi-View Geometry
He Chen*,
Pengfei Guo*,
Pengfei Li, Gim Hee Lee, Gregory Chirikjian
ECCV, spotlight, 2020
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A novel 3D crowd human pose estimation method, which proposed a faster cross-view matching based on graphical model
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Sparse Activation Maps for Interpreting 3D Object Detection
Qiuxiao Chen, Pengfei Li, Meng Xu, Xiaojun Qi.
Safe Artificial Intelligence for Automated Driving(CVPRW), Best Paper Finalist, 2021
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A technique to interpret 3D object detection results from volumetric-based networks
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Archived projects
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Car Pose Estimation with Context Constraints
Pengfei Li*, Weichao Qiu*, Michael Peven*, Gregory D. Hager, Alan L. Yuille
arXiv:1912.04363
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Estimated car pose and activity based on global information (ground plane parameter) estimation. Copy real car's behavior into a game engine, UE4.
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Feature Extracted DOA Estimation Algorithm Using Acoustic Array for Drone Surveillance
Xianyu Chang, Chaoqun Yang, Xiufang Shi, Pengfei Li, Zhiguo Shi, Jiming Chen
VTC-Fall, 2018
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