��<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Mingyang Deng</title> <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto" rel="stylesheet"> <style> body { font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #f2f2f2; } .container { max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 40px; background-color: #fff; box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: flex-start; justify-content: space-between; } .container section { flex-basis: calc(50% - 20px); margin-bottom: 20px; } h1, h2, h3 { margin-top: 0; } h1 { font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; color: #333; } h2 { font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #333; } h3 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: #333; padding: 20px; } p { font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; color: #666; } ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } li { margin-bottom: 10px; } a { color: #0077cc; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } img { /* flex: 1 1 50%; */ width: 30%; height: auto; } .publication-title { font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; } .publication-author { font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; } .publication-info { font-size: 14px; color: #666; } .publication-link a { color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none; } .publication-link a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <header> <h1>Mingyang Deng</h1> </header> <main> <section style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: space-between; align-items: center;"> <div style="padding-right: 20px;"> <p>Hello! I'm Mingyang Deng, a second-year PhD student at MIT, where I'm fortunate to be advised by Prof. <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/kaiming/">Kaiming He</a>. My research focuses on machine learning. </p> <p>I earned my undergraduate degree from MIT, double majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science. During my studies, I had the invaluable opportunity to collaborate with Prof. <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/tommi/">Tommi Jaakkola</a>. Additionally, I had the privilege of exploring fine-grained complexity under the guidance of Prof. <a href="https://people.csail.mit.edu/virgi/">Virginia Vassilevska Williams</a> and delving into combinatorics with Prof. <a href="https://yufeizhao.com/">Yufei Zhao</a>.</p> <p>Prior to my PhD, I gained valuable industry experience through internships at Google DeepMind, Meta (FAIR), Citadel Securities, and Pika.</p> <p> You can contact me at dengm at mit dot edu and view my resume <a href="resume.pdf">here</a>. </p> </div> <img src="./photo.jpg" alt="Mingyang Deng" style="max-width: 170px; height: auto;"> </section> <section> <h2>Selected Awards</h2> <ul> <li>1st place @ 45th Annual ICPC World Finals </li> <li>Putnam Fellow @ 83rd William Lowell Putnam Competition</li> <li>Gold medal (1st place) @ 33rd International Olympiad in Informatics</li> <li>Gold medal @ 60th International Mathematical Olympiad</li> <li>2nd place @ HackMIT 2021</li> <li>4th place @ Google Code Jam Final 2021</li> </ul> </section> <section> <h2>Publications</h2> <ul> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04770">Generative Modeling via Drifting</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Mingyang Deng, He Li, Tianhong Li, Yilun Du, Kaiming He | Preprint. [<a href="projects/drifting/">Project Page</a>]</div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13447.pdf">Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Zhengyang Geng, Mingyang Deng, Xingjian Bai, J. Zico Kolter, Kaiming He | NeurIPS 2025 (Oral). </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11838.pdf">Autoregressive Image Generation without Vector Quantization</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Tianhong Li, Yonglong Tian, He Li, Mingyang Deng, Kaiming He | NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight). </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.14878.pdf">Restart Sampling for Improving Generative Processes</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Yilun Xu*, Mingyang Deng*, Xiang Cheng*, Yonglong Tian, Ziming Liu, Tommi Jaakkola | NeurIPS 2023. </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07837.pdf">Measuring Feature Sparsity in Language Models</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Mingyang Deng*, Lucas Tao*, Joe Benton | NeurIPS 2023 SoLAR workshop (Spotlight).</div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06914">Uniform sets with few progressions via colorings</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Mingyang Deng*, Jonathan Tidor*, Yufei Zhao* | Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.</div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://epubs.siam.org/doi/epdf/10.1137/1.9781611977554.ch114">On Problems Related to Unbounded SubsetSum: A Unified Combinatorial Approach</a></div> <div class="publication-info">Mingyang Deng*, Xiao Mao*, Ziqian Zhong* | SODA 2023. </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://epubs.siam.org/doi/epdf/10.1137/1.9781611977554.ch113">Approximating Knapsack and Partition via Dense Subset Sums</a></div> <div class="publication-info"> Mingyang Deng*, Ce Jin*, Xiao Mao* | SODA 2023. </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16391/pdf/LIPIcs-ICALP-2022-50.pdf">New Additive Approximations for Shortest Paths and Cycles</a></div> <div class="publication-info"> Mingyang Deng*, Yael Kirkpatrick*, Victor Rong*, Virginia Vassilevska Williams*, Ziqian Zhong* | ICALP 2022.</div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16839/pdf/LIPIcs-MFCS-2022-41.pdf">New Lower Bounds and Upper Bounds for Listing Avoidable Vertices</a></div> <div class="publication-info"> Mingyang Deng*, Virginia Vassilevska Williams*, Ziqian Zhong* | MFCS 2022.</div> </li> <!-- Add more publications as needed --> </ul> </section> <section id="projects"> <h2>Projects</h2> <p>I have lots of random thoughts, so I implemented many projects.</p> <ul> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="http://45.77.36.85:3000">Good chess</a></div> <div class="publication-info">A great chess game, as the name suggests. </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="http://beaverdam.top">Beaverdam</a></div> <div class="publication-info">A social media platform that limits users to reading at most one article per day, thus encouraging them to seek out new content. </div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://fjzzq2002.github.io/april_fools_group_delivery/index.html">Group delivery</a></div> <div class="publication-info">MIT has an annual ring delivery where students order gold, silver, or copper rings, but it's not very MIT-like. So we designed group delivery.</div> </li> <li> <div class="publication-title"><a href="https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/90513">Hamiltonian paths</a></div> <div class="publication-info">A methodology to solve Hamiltonian paths in random graphs very quickly. </div> </li> </ul> </section> </main> </div> </body> </html>