Yiqing Li

Hello! My name is Yiqing Li, currently a master’s student at Machine Learning Department of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), supervised by Professor Kun Zhang. I obtained my bachelor’s degree from Fudan University in China, majoring in Data Science and Big Data Technology. I also spent time at the University of Melbourne as a visiting student under the supervision of Mingming Gong in 2023.

Research Interests

I am currently interested in the intersection of Machine Learning and Causality, with a particular focus on Causal Discovery and/or Causal Representation Learning. I am also open to exploring Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models.

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Email: leeedwina430 [at] gmail [dot] com

Selected Publications

Note that * denotes equal contributions and † means corresponding authors.

• Independence Test for Linear Non-Gaussian Data and Applications in Causal Discovery.
  Yiqing Li, Xiaofei Wang, Boyang Sun, Yewei Xia, and Kun Zhang†. [ICLR 2026]

• Conditional Independent Component Analysis For Estimating Causal Structure with Latent Variables.
  Yewei Xia, Zhengming Chen, Haoyue Dai, Fuhong Wang, Yixin Ren, Yiqing Li, Kun Zhang, and Shuigeng Zhou. [ICLR 2026]

• Extracting Rare Dependence Patterns via Adaptive Sample Reweighting.
  Yiqing Li*, Yewei Xia*, Xiaofei Wang, Zhengming Chen, Liuhua Peng, Mingming Gong†, and Kun Zhang†. [ICML 2025]

• Interventional Fairness on Partially Known Causal Graphs: A Constrained Optimization Approach.
  Aoqi Zuo, Yiqing Li, Susan Wei, and Mingming Gong. [ICLR 2024]