Ming Yin

I am a first-year PhD student at Duke University, supervised by Prof. Yiran Chen and Prof. Hai Li.

I received my Bachelor's degree from School of the Gifted Young, USTC in 2024 at 20 years old.

I am currently interested in LLM Agents, LLM Reasoning, and Trustworthy AI.

🎯 From May to August 2025, I’m serving as a GenAI Research Intern at Zoom in Seattle. Please feel free to reach out if you’d like to chat, connect or collaborate!

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πŸ“– Publications

(* indicates Equal Contribution)

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

Shaokun Zhang*, Ming Yin*, Jieyu Zhang, Jiale Liu, Zhiguang Han, Jingyang Zhang, Beibin Li, Chi Wang, Huazheng Wang, Yiran Chen, Qingyun Wu

ICML 2025 (πŸ† Spotlight, 313/12107 = 2.58%)

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Poisoning Federated Recommender Systems with Fake Users

Ming Yin*, Yichang Xu*, Minghong Fang, Neil Gong

WWW 2024

LoBAM: LoRA-Based Backdoor Attack on Model Merging

Ming Yin, Jingyang Zhang, Jingwei Sun, Minghong Fang, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

ICLR 2025 Workshop, also under review as a conference paper

Keyframe-oriented Vision Token Pruning: Enhancing Efficiency of Large Vision Language Models on Long-Form Video Processing

Yudong Liu, Jingwei Sun, Yueqian Lin, Jingyang Zhang, Ming Yin, Qinsi Wang, Jianyi Zhang, Hai Li, Yiran Chen

preprint

Robust Federated Learning Mitigates Client-side Training Data Distribution Inference Attacks

Yichang Xu*, Ming Yin*, Minghong Fang, Neil Gong

WWW 2024

⭐ Industrial Experience


Zoom, GenAI Research Intern

Seattle, WA

May 2025 - Aug 2025

πŸ” Reviewer Service

ICLR 2025, ICCV 2025, NeurIPS 2025, TDSC

Thanks Jon Barron for the template.