I am a post-doctoral researcher with School of Future Technology (未来技术学院) at South China University of Technology (华南理工大学), working with Prof. Mingkui Tan (谭明奎) and Prof. Cen Chen (陈岑). I received my bachelor and PHD degree from South China University of Technology in 2018 and 2024, respectively. My research interests include efficient architecture design and out-of-distribution generalization. I published papers in top venues, including ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, IEEE TCSVT and Neural Networks. As of now, my research has been cited more than 945 times, as reported by Google Scholar. I served as the reviewer for several top-tier machine learning/computer vision conferences, including ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and AAAI.

🔥 News

• 2025.05: 🎉 One paper accepted by ICML 2025!
• 2025.05: 🎉 One collaborative paper accepted by ICML 2025!
• 2025.03: 🎉 One collaborative paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI!
• 2024.12: Successfully accomplished my PhD thesis defense!
• 2024.12: 🎉 One collaborative paper accepted by AAAI 2025!
• 2024.12: 🎉 One collaborative paper accepted by IEEE TCSVT!
• 2024.04: 🎉 One paper accepted by IEEE TCSVT!
• 2024.01: 🎉 One paper accepted by ICLR 2024!

📝 Publications

Conference

• ICML 2025 Core Context Aware Transformers for Long Context Language Modeling, Yaofo Chen, Zeng You, Shuhai Zhang, Haokun Li, Yirui Li, Yaowei Wang, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Poster / Slides / Code
• ICLR 2024 Towards Robust and Efficient Cloud-Edge Elastic Model Adaptation via Selective Entropy Distillation, Yaofo Chen, Shuaicheng Niu, Yaowei Wang, Shoukai Xu, Hengjie Song, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Poster / Slides / Code
• CVPR 2021 Contrastive Neural Architecture Search with Neural Architecture Comparators, Yaofo Chen, Yong Guo, Qi Chen, Minli Li, Wei Zeng, Yaowei Wang, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Supp / Poster / Slides / Code
• ICML 2020 Breaking the Curse of Space Explosion: Towards Efficient NAS with Curriculum Search, Yong Guo^*, Yaofo Chen^*, Yin Zheng, Peilin Zhao, Jian Chen, Junzhou Huang, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Supp / Poster / Slides / Code
• ICML 2025 Curse of High Dimensionality Issue in Transformer for Long Context Modeling, Shuhai Zhang, Zeng You, Yaofo Chen, Zhiquan Wen, Qianyue Wang, Zhijie Qiu, Yuanqing Li, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Poster / Slides / Code
• ICLR 2023 (Oral) Towards Stable Test-time Adaptation in Dynamic Wild World, Shuaicheng Niu, Jiaxiang Wu, Yifan Zhang, Zhiquan Wen, Yaofo Chen, Peilin Zhao, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Poster / Slides / Code
• ICML 2022 Efficient Test-Time Model Adaptation without Forgetting, Shuaicheng Niu, Jiaxiang Wu, Yifan Zhang, Yaofo Chen, Shijian Zheng, Peilin Zhao, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Poster / Slides / Code
• AAAI 2025 Learning to Generate Gradients for Test-Time Adaptation via Test-Time Training Layers, Qi Deng, Shuaicheng Niu, Ronghao Zhang, Yaofo Chen, Runhao Zeng, Jian Chen, Xiping Hu. PDF / Code
• CVPRW 2023 Pareto-aware Neural Architecture Generation for Diverse Computational Budgets, Yong Guo, Yaofo Chen, Yin Zheng, Qi Chen, Peilin Zhao, Jian Chen, Junzhou Huang, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Supp / Code

Journal

• TCSVT 2024 Automated Dominative Subspace Mining for Efficient Neural Architecture Search, Yaofo Chen, Yong Guo, Daihai Liao, Fanbing Lv, Hengjie Song, James Tin-Yau Kwok, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Code
• Neural Networks 2021 Content-aware Convolutional Neural Networks, Yong Guo, Yaofo Chen, Mingkui Tan, Kui Jia, Jian Chen, Jingdong Wang. PDF / Code
• TPAMI 2025 Uncertainty-Calibrated Test-Time Model Adaptation without Forgetting, Mingkui Tan, Guohao Chen, Jiaxiang Wu, Yifan Zhang, Yaofo Chen, Peilin Zhao, Shuaicheng Niu. PDF / Code
• TCSVT 2024 Towards Long Video Understanding via Fine-detailed Video Story Generation, Zeng You, Zhiquan Wen, Yaofo Chen, Xin Li, Runhao Zeng, Yaowei Wang, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Code
• Chinese Journal of Computers Class-Balanced Federated Learning Based on Data Generation, ZhiPeng Li, Yong Guo, Yaofo Chen, Yaowei Wang, Wei Zeng, Mingkui Tan. PDF / Code

📚 Academic Services

• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Reviewer 2022-2025
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Reviewer 2021-2025
• Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Reviewer 2021-2025
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Reviewer 2022-2025
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Reviewer 2023-2025
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Reviewer 2022-2024
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Reviewer 2025