
Li Ang
Founder and CEO @ Simular
Bio
I am a startup founder in artificial intelligence, with a variety of research and product experiences on autonomous driving, videos, cameras, maps, advertisements, etc. My research aims at building lifelong autonomous agents. Previously, I worked at Google DeepMind, Baidu Apollo, Facebook AI Research, CMU Robotics, Apple, Google Streetview, and Comcast Labs DC. I received my Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland College Park. My PhD thesis is spatial perception from visual and linguisitc information.
Publications
- Building an open-vocabulary video CLIP model with better architectures, optimization and data. PAMI 2024. bib
Zuxuan Wu, Zejia Weng, Wujian Peng, Xitong Yang, Ang Li, Larry S. Davis, Yu-Gang Jiang - PolicyCleanse: Backdoor Detection and Mitigation for Competitive Reinforcement Learning. ICCV 2023. bib
Junfeng Guo, Ang Li, Cong Liu. - Transforming CLIP to an Open-vocabulary Video Model via Interpolated Weight Optimization. ICML 2023. bib
Zejia Weng, Xitong Yang, Ang Li, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang - Hyperspherical Federated Learning. ECCV 2022. bib
Xin Dong, Sai Qian Zhang, Ang Li, H.T. Kung - Semi-Supervised Vision Transformers. ECCV 2022. bib
Zejia Weng, Xitong Yang, Ang Li, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang. - Neural Mean Discrepancy for Efficient Out-of-Distribution Detection. CVPR 2022. bibtex
Xin Dong, Junfeng Guo, Ang Li, Wei-Te Ting, Cong Liu, H.T. Kung. - Information-theoretic Online Memory Selection for Continual Learning. ICLR 2022. bibtex
Shengyang Sun, Daniele Calandriello, Huiyi Hu, Ang Li, Michalis Titsias. - AEVA: Black-box Backdoor Detection Using Adversarial Extreme Value Analysis. ICLR 2022. code bibtex
Junfeng Guo, Ang Li, Cong Liu. - One Pass ImageNet. NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on ImageNet. bibtex
Huiyi Hu, Ang Li, Daniele Calandriello, Dilan Gorur. - ETA Prediction with Graph Neural Networks in Google Maps. CIKM 2021. bibtex
Austin Derrow-Pinion, Jennifer She, David Wong, Oliver Lange, Todd Hester, Luis Perez, Marc Nunkesser, Seongjae Lee, Xueying Guo, Brett Wiltshire, Peter Battaglia, Vishal Gupta, Ang Li, Zhongwen Xu, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Yujia Li, Petar Veličković. - Task-agnostic Continual Learning with Hybrid Probabilistic Models. ICML 2021 workshop. bibtex
Polina Kirichenko, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Dushyant Rao, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Nir Levine, Ang Li, Huiyi Hu, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Razvan Pascanu. - The Effectiveness of Memory Replay in Large Scale Continual Learning. CVPR 2021 Workshop on Continual Learning. bibtex
Yogesh Balaji, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Dong Yin, Alex Mott, Ang Li. - PredCoin: Defense against Query-based Hard-label Attack. 2021.
Junfeng Guo, Yaswanth Yadlapalli, Thiele Lothar, Ang Li, Cong Liu - Learning to Incentivize Other Learning Agents. NeurIPS 2020. bibtex code
Jiachen Yang, Ang Li, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Peter Sunehag, Edward Hughes and Hongyuan Zha. - SOLA: Continual Learning with Second-Order Loss Approximation. ICML 2020 Workshop on Continual Learning. bibtex
Dong Yin, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Ang Li. - The AVA-Kinetics Localized Human Actions Video Dataset. 2020. data bibtex
Ang Li, Meghana Thotakuri, David A. Ross, Joao Carreira, Alexander Vostrikov, Andrew Zisserman. - Hybrid Models for Open Set Recognition. ECCV 2020 Oral. bibtex
Hongjie Zhang, Ang Li, Jie Guo, Yanwen Guo. - PhysGAN: Generating Physical-World-Resilient Adversarial Examples for Autonomous Driving. CVPR 2020. bibtex
Zelun Kong, Junfeng Guo, Ang Li, Cong Liu. - Orthogonal Gradient Descent for Continual Learning. AISTATS 2020. bibtex
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Navid Azizan, Alex Mott, Ang Li. - Prediction, Consistency, Curvature: Representation Learning for Locally-Linear Control. ICLR 2020. bibtex
Nir Levine, Yinlam Chow, Rui Shu, Ang Li, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Hung Bui. - Improved Knowledge Distillation via Teacher Assistant. AAAI 2020. Bibtex
Seyed-Iman Mirzadeh, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Ang Li, Nir Levine, Akihiro Matsukawa, Hassan Ghasemzadeh. - Data Efficient Training for Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Behavior Policy Sharing. NeurIPS 2019 workshop. bibtex
Ge Liu, Heng-Tze Cheng, Rui Wu, Jing Wang, Jayiden Ooi, Lihong Li, Ang Li, Sibon Li, Craig Boutilier. - Cross-View Policy Learning for Street Navigation. ICCV 2019. bibtex
Ang Li*, Huiyi Hu*, Piotr Mirowski, Mehrdad Farajtabar. - A Generalized Framework for Population Based Training. KDD 2019. youtube bibtex
Ang Li, Ola Spyra, Sagi Perel, Valentin Dalibard, Max Jaderberg, Chenjie Gu, David Budden, Tim Harley, Pramod Gupta. - SNR: Sub-Network Routing for Flexible Parameter Sharing in Multi-task Learning. AAAI 2019.
Jiaqi Ma, Zhe Zhao, Jilin Chen, Ang Li, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi. - Improving Open Set Domain Adaptation Using Image-to-Image Translation. ICME 2019.
Hongjie Zhang, Ang Li, Xu Han, Zhaoming Chen, Yang Zhang, Yanwen Guo. - Layout-induced Video Representation for Recognizing Agent-in-Place Actions. ICCV 2019. bibtex
Ruichi Yu, Hongcheng Wang, Ang Li, Jingxiao Zheng, Vlad I. Morariu, Larry S. Davis. - C-WSL: Count-guided Weakly Supervised Localization. ECCV 2018. bibtex
Mingfei Gao, Ang Li, Ruichi Yu, Vlad I. Morariu, Larry S. Davis. - NISP: Pruning Networks using Neuron Importance Score Propagation. CVPR 2018. bibtex
Ruichi Yu, Ang Li, Chun-Fu Chen, Jui-Hsin Lai, Vlad I. Morariu, Xintong Han, Mingfei Gao, Ching-Yung Lin, Larry S. Davis. - Dynamic Zoom-in Network for Fast Object Detection in Large Images. CVPR 2018. bibtex
Mingfei Gao, Ruichi Yu, Ang Li, Vlad I. Morariu, Larry S. Davis. - Learning Visual N-Grams from Web Data. ICCV 2017. bibtex
Ang Li, Allan Jabri, Armand Joulin and Laurens van der Maaten. - Visual Relationship Detection with Internal and External Linguistic Knowledge Distillation. ICCV 2017. bibtex
Ruichi Yu, Ang Li, Vlad I. Morariu and Larry S. Davis. - Generating Holistic 3D Scene Abstractions for Text-based Image Retrieval. CVPR 2017. poster data code bibtex
Ang Li, Jin Sun, Joe Yue-Hei Ng, Ruichi Yu, Vlad I. Morariu and Larry S. Davis. - Towards Unified Data and Lifecycle Management for Deep Learning. ICDE 2017. bibtex
Hui Miao, Ang Li, Larry S. Davis and Amol Deshpande - On Model Discovery For Hosted Data Science Projects. SIGMOD 2017 workshop. bibtex
Hui Miao, Ang Li, Larry S. Davis and Amol Deshpande. - Selective Encoding for Recognizing Unreliably Localized Faces. ICCV 2015 spotlight. youtube code bibtex
Ang Li, Vlad I. Morariu and Larry S. Davis. - Efficient Discriminative Nonorthogonal Binary Subspace with its Application to Visual Tracking. 2015. bibtex
Ang Li, Feng Tang, Yanwen Guo and Hai Tao. - Planar Structure Matching Under Projective Uncertainty for Geolocation. ECCV 2014. youtube bibtex
Ang Li, Vlad I. Morariu and Larry S. Davis. - Object Tracking Using Learned Feature Manifolds. CVIU 2013. bibtex
Yanwen Guo, Ye Chen, Feng Tang, Ang Li, Weitao Luo, and Mingming Liu. - Bag of Textons for Image Segmentation via Soft Clustering and Convex Shift. CVPR 2012. bibtex
Zhiding Yu, Ang Li, Oscar C. Au and Chunjing Xu. - Discriminative Nonorthogonal Binary Subspace Tracking. ECCV 2010. bibtex
Ang Li, Feng Tang, Yanwen Guo and Hai Tao.
Press Coverage
- Baidu Apollo Day: Expanded robotaxi operations and new autonomous driving software and hardware. Autonomous Driving International.
- Baidu Announces Plan to Build the World's Largest Fully Driverless Ride-Hailing Service Area in 2023. PR Newswire.
- DeepMind’s One Pass ImageNet: A New Benchmark for Resource Efficiency in Deep Learning. Synced Review
- ETA Prediction with Graph Neural Networks in Google Maps (Paper Explained). The AI Epiphany.
- An algorithm that evolved Starcraft bots is also training self-driving cars. MIT Technology Review
- Waymo and DeepMind mimic evolution to develop a new, better way to train self-driving AI. TechCrunch
- How evolutionary selection can train more capable self-driving cars. DeepMind Blog.
- Using automated data augmentation to advance our Waymo Driver. Waymo Blog
- How Google Maps uses DeepMind’s AI tools to predict your arrival time. The Verge.
- DeepMind claims its AI improved Google Maps travel time estimates by up to 50%. VentureBeat
- Traffic prediction with advanced Graph Neural Networks. DeepMind Blog
- DeepMind’s AI uses aerial and ground-view data to navigate unseen areas. VentureBeat
Academic Service
- Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transaction on Image Processing (TIP)
- The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ)
- SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI)
- IEEE Transaction on Cybernetics
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Machine Learning
- Session Chair:
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021
- Area Chair:
- NeurIPS Workshop on Meta Learning 2021
- NeurIPS Workshop on Meta Learning 2022
- Senior Program Committee:
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2020, 2021
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2020
- Program Committee:
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
- International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)