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Email: yimintan at usc.edu
Now, I'm a PhD student at USC working with Sven Koenig, Erdem Bıyık, Jiaoyang Li, T. K. Satish Kumar and Shanghua Teng. My research is focused on Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF). I am also interested in foundation model and world model.
Before USC, I got my master from CMU RI and worked with Katia Sycara, Jiaoyang Li and Zhongqiang Ren. I received a B.Eng. in Computer Science from ShanghaiTech University in 2020 and worked with Kewei Tu, Xumin He, Sören Schwertfeger. I visited CMU in 2019, advised by David Held and Thomas Weng. I also worked as a SDE in Microsoft AzureStack Team for a year.
I am familiar with traditional data structures and algorithms and have several prizes in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP), National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), and International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). My first programming language is Pascal.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION
University of Southern California (2023.8 - Now ）
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer ScienceViterbi School of EngineeringAdvisor: Prof. Sven Koenig and Prof. Erdem Bıyık
Carnegie Mellon University (2021.8 - 2023.8 ）
Master of Science in Robotics Robotics InstituteMaster Thesis: Solving Multi-Agent Target Assignment and Path Finding with a Single Constraint TreeAdvisor: Prof. Katia Sycara and Prof. Jiaoyang Li
ShanghaiTech University ( 2016.9 - 2020.7 )
B.E in Computer Science and TechnologyThe School of Information Science and Technology(SIST)Undergraduate Thesis: 《使用生成对抗网络从人脸到动漫的风格转换》 (指导老师: 何旭明) “Convert People Face to Cartoon Using Three-Stage GAN” (Advisor: Prof. Xumin He)
Work Experience
Work Experience
Research Intern, Futurewei ( 2024.5 - 2025.4 )
Machine Learning Team, Santa ClaraSoftware Engineer, Microsoft ( 2020.7 - 2021.8 )
AzureStack Storage Team, Shanghai
PAPER LIST
PAPER LIST
RAILGUN: A Unified Convolutional Policy for Multi-Agent Path Finding Across Different Environments and Tasks (Yimin Tang*, Xiao Xiong*, Jingyi Xi, Jiaoyang Li, Erdem Bıyık, Sven Koenig, ICRA 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics, in review)
Accelerating Focal Search in Multi-Agent Path Finding with Tighter Lower Bounds (Yimin Tang, Zhenghong Yu, Jiaoyang Li, Sven Koenig, in review)
Enhancing Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Cache Mechanism (Yimin Tang*, Zhenghong Yu*, Yi Zheng, T. K. Satish Kumar, Jiaoyang Li, Sven Koenig, AAMAS 2025 Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems, in review)
Enhancing Long Context Performance in LLMs Through Inner Loop Query Mechanism (Yimin Tang, Yurong Xu, Ning Yan, Masood Mortazavi, NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Adaptive Foundation Models)
ITA-ECBS: A Bounded-Suboptimal Algorithm for Combined Target-Assignment and Path-Finding Problem (Yimin Tang, Sven Koenig, Jiaoyang Li, SoCS 2024)
Solving Multi-Agent Target Assignment and Path Finding with a Single CBS Tree (Yimin Tang, Zhongqiang Ren, Jiaoyang Li, Katia Sycara, IEEE MRS 2023, Best Paper Candidate)
Multi-modal perception and transfer learning for grasping transparent and specular objects (Thomas Weng, Amith Pallankize, Yimin Tang, Oliver Kroemer, David Held, RA-L with ICRA 2020)
Current Organized Competition (Welcome to Join)
Current Organized Competition (Welcome to Join)
The League of Robot Runners
The League of Robot Runners
https://www.leagueofrobotrunners.org/
Sponsored by Amazon Robotics, this is a competition series where participants tackle the core combinatorial challenges found in cooperative multi-robot coordination problems
Robot Dynamics 🤖Lifelong Planning ♻️Task Assignment 🎯 Real-Time Execution ⏳
Sponsored by Amazon Robotics, this is a competition series where participants tackle the core combinatorial challenges found in cooperative multi-robot coordination problems
Robot Dynamics 🤖Lifelong Planning ♻️Task Assignment 🎯 Real-Time Execution ⏳
Projects
Projects
Soccer Project
Soccer Project
The simple morphology (right) is working.
Training spider now......
Recruiting people to join this project ......
Training spider now......
Recruiting people to join this project ......
RAILGUN: A Unified Convolutional Policy for Multi-Agent Path Finding Across Different Environments and Tasks (in review)
RAILGUN: A Unified Convolutional Policy for Multi-Agent Path Finding Across Different Environments and Tasks (in review)
Yimin Tang*, Xiao Xiong*, Jingyi Xi, Jiaoyang Li, Erdem Bıyık, Sven Koenig
First Centralized Learning-Based Method
Foundation Model for MAPF
Accelerating Focal Search in Multi-Agent Path Finding with Tighter Lower Bounds (in review)
Accelerating Focal Search in Multi-Agent Path Finding with Tighter Lower Bounds (in review)
Yimin Tang, Zhenghong Yu, Jiaoyang Li, Sven Koenig
Podcast generated by Gemini
Podcast generated by Gemini
Twice search [Shortest Path Search+Best-First Search]
faster than
Once search [Focal Search]
Enhancing Long Context Performance in LLMs Through Inner Loop Query Mechanism (NeurIPS 2024 Workshop)
Enhancing Long Context Performance in LLMs Through Inner Loop Query Mechanism (NeurIPS 2024 Workshop)
Yimin Tang, Yurong Xu, Ning Yan, Masood Mortazavi
Arxiv: link
Self-Loop, Long Context, Memory, Needle in a Haystack
RA-L2020.movMulti-modal transfer learning for grasping transparent and specular objects(RA-L with ICRA 2020)
Multi-modal transfer learning for grasping transparent and specular objects(RA-L with ICRA 2020)
Thomas Weng, Amith Pallankize, Yimin Tang, Oliver Kroemer, David Held
sites.google.com/view/transparent-specular-grasping
sites.google.com/view/transparent-specular-grasping
Can grasp transparent objects with RGBD images
Turning Mice into Tangibles
Turning Mice into Tangibles
Enabling Tangible Interaction on Non-touch Displays with Optical Mouse Sensor and Visible Light Communication (CHI 2022)
Code: https://github.com/kiki0805/HCI-Mouse
Mouse has a high speed low resolution camera
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
CS100 Programming TA ( Sept 2018 - Jan 2019)
SI100 Introduction to Information Technology TA ( Sept 2017 - Jan 2018, Jan 2020 - June 2020)
CS240 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Graduate Course) TA ( Mar 2019 - July 2019 )
CMU Robotics Institute Summer Scholars (RISS) (June 2019 - Aug 2019)
AWARDS
AWARDS
2024 Fall USC GSG Professional Development Fund
2024 Futurewei High Performance Intern Award
2023 Best Paper Candidate Award in International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)
2023 Viterbi School of Engineering Fellowship
2023 AWAP PintOS: 2nd runner up ($400)
2016-2020 ShanghaiTech University Merit Student
2018 IBM China Outstanding Student Scholarship
2018 ACM-ICPC Xian Asia-East Continent Final Bronze Medal
2018 ACM-ICPC Asia Beijing Regional Contest Bronze Medal
2018 ACM-ICPC Asia Qingdao Regional Contest Silver Medal
2018 Shanghai Student Cybersecurity Competition Special Award
2016 & 2017 ShanghaiTech University Scholarship of Academic Excellence
MISC
MISC
NOI 2015 (Chinese National Olympiad in Informatics) 铁牌(Participation Award)
涂鸦艺术家——班克斯(Banksy) 机核网(GAMECORES)
一名普通计算机科学家都用些什么装备 机核网(GAMECORES)
LoRR 2024 (The League of Robot Runners ) Organiser https://www.leagueofrobotrunners.org/
Reviewer (I spend avg 6 hours for a 8 pages paper):
ICLR 2022 (1)
RA-L 2023 (1), TJSC (1), IROS 2023 (2)
IROS 2024 (3), NeurIPS 2024 (5), CoRL 2024 (3), WAFR 2024 (1)
AAAI 2025 (6), AAAI 2025 MAPF workshop PC (3), ICLR 2025 (3), AISTATS 2025 (1), ICAPS 2025 (1), ICAPS 2025 workshop (2)
CVPR 2025 (1), RA-L 2025 (1), ICML 2025 (4), JAIR 2025 (1), IROS 2025 (3)
Open Source:
Contributed for
AWAP 2023 PintOS: 2nd runner up ($400) !
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[Yuzhuo Jing] (osdi.dev )
[Qi Qin] (leoq7.com/ )
[Letong Wang] (letong-wang)
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
ShanghaiTech tuition supports graciously provided by Chinese taxpayers and my parents.
CMU MSR tuition and stipend supports graciously provided by Prof. Katia Sycara and my parents.
USC PhD tuition and stipend supports graciously provided by Prof. Sven Koenig and Viterbi Fellowship.
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