Fengyu Gao

I'm a third-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Jing Yang. Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2022.

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Research

I'm interested in privacy-preserving machine learning and large language models (LLMs).

(* indicates equal contribution)

Data-adaptive Differentially Private Prompt Synthesis for In-Context Learning

Fengyu Gao*, Ruida Zhou*, Tianhao Wang, Cong Shen, Jing Yang

ICLR 2025      [Code]

We generate differentially private synthetic few-shot examples for in-context learning by leveraging data clustering patterns.

Federated Online Prediction from Experts with Differential Privacy: Separations and Regret Speed-ups

Fengyu Gao, Ruiquan Huang, Jing Yang

NeurIPS 2024

We study differentially private federated online prediction from experts, achieving regret speed-up under stochastic and special oblivious adversaries, with lower bounds showing fundamental limits.

Federated Q-Learning: Linear Regret Speedup with Low Communication Cost

Zhong Zheng, Fengyu Gao, Lingzhou Xue, Jing Yang

ICLR 2024

We study model-free federated Q-learning for tabular MDPs, achieving linear regret speed-up with logarithmic communication cost.

Miscellanea

Reviewer: ICLR 2025

Teaching Assistant: Algebraic Structure, Spring 2021, USTC; Analog and Digital Circuits, Fall 2020, USTC


Thank Dr. Jon Barron for sharing the source code of his homepage.