Sherry Yang
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Researches reinforcement learning and generative modeling, including learned world models and decision-making agents built on foundation models.
Sherry Yang's lab at NYU works on generative & foundation models, reinforcement learning and large language models. 18 papers since 2023, 18 at top venues, mostly ICLR and NeurIPS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 100%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 3 papers2025 · T1 3
- 8 papers2024 · T1 8
- 4 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Reinforcement learning8 papers
- Large language models5 papers
- Generative & foundation models2 papers
- generative modeling0 papers
- built0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20263 papers
20253 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)MLE-Dojo: Interactive Environments for Empowering LLM Agents in Machine Learning Engineering (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Object-centric 3D Motion Field for Robot Learning from Human Videos (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Value-Incentivized Preference Optimization: A Unified Approach to Online and Offline RLHF (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- ICML (T1)Code as Reward: Empowering Reinforcement Learning with VLMs (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Generative Hierarchical Materials Search (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Position: Video as the New Language for Real-World Decision Making (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Probabilistic Adaptation of Black-Box Text-to-Video Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Scalable Diffusion for Materials Generation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)UQE: A Query Engine for Unstructured Databases (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Video Language Planning (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- ICLR (T1)Dichotomy of Control: Separating What You Can Control from What You Cannot (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Learning Universal Policies via Text-Guided Video Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Multi-Environment Pretraining Enables Transfer to Action Limited Datasets (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Offline RL for Natural Language Generation with Implicit Language Q Learning (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
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