Ming Yin

I am a second-year PhD student at Duke University, supervised by Prof. Yiran Chen.

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.

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Publications

(* indicates Equal Contribution)
LiveMCP-101: Stress Testing and Diagnosing MCP-enabled Agents on Challenging Queries

Ming Yin, Dinghan Shen, Silei Xu, Jianbing Han, Sixun Dong, Mian Zhang, Yebowen Hu, ..., Yiran Chen, Kaiqiang Song

preprint

Media Coverage: [Synced]   [AK]   [Discover AI]
Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

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

ICML 2025 (🏆 Spotlight, 313/12107 = 2.58%)

Media Coverage: [Synced]   [AIEra]   [QbitAI]
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
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

ICCV 2025
Robust Federated Learning Mitigates Client-side Training Data Distribution Inference Attacks

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

WWW 2024

Complex Logical Instruction Generation

Mian Zhang, Shujian Liu, Sixun Dong, Ming Yin, Yebowen Hu, Xun Wang, Zhiyu Zoey Chen, Kaiqiang Song

preprint
MMTok: Multimodal Coverage Maximization for Efficient Inference of VLMs

Sixun Dong, Juhua Hu, Mian Zhang, Ming Yin, Yanjie Fu, Qi Qian

preprint

Industrial Experience
Zoom, GenAI Research Intern

🌊 Seattle, WA

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Reviewer Service

EMNLP 2025 ICLR 2025 ICCV 2025 NeurIPS 2025 TDSC

Teaching

Teaching Assistant - ECE 661 Computer Engineering Machine Learning and Deep Neural Nets, Fall 2025