Yunfan Li

Room B316, Colledge of Computer Science,

Sichuan University, Wangjiang Campus, 610065

Hi! My name is Yunfan Li (李云帆). I’m a Ph.D. student from College of Computer Science, Sichuan Univerisity, China. Currently, I’m a student of Professor Peng [website].

News

Feb 7, 2025	I was invited to present a talk at the AI for Life Science Seminar [AI4LifeScience], which will take place on February 23, 2025, in UESTC, Chengdu, China.
Jan 31, 2025	One paper was accepted by Nature Communications [NatComm-25], 2025.
Sep 26, 2024	One paper was accepted by the 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [NeurIPS-24], which will take place on Dec 10-15, 2024, Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, Canada.
Jul 3, 2024	I have been invited to be a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing [TIP].
May 2, 2024	One paper was accepted by the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning as Oral [ICML-24], which will take place on July 21-27, 2024, Messe Wien Exhibition Congress Center, Vienna, Austria.
Apr 14, 2024	I have been invited to be a PC member for the 32nd ACM Multimedia Conference [ACMMM-24], which will take place on October 28-November 1, 2024, Melbourne, Australia.
Mar 13, 2024	One paper was accepted by IEEE Conference on Multimedia Expo [ICME-24], which will take place on July 15-19, 2024, Niagra Falls, Canada.
Feb 28, 2024	One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing [TIP-24], 2024.
Jan 17, 2024	I have been invited to be a PC member for the European Conference on Computer Vision [ECCV-24], which will take place on September 29-October 4, 2024, MiCo Milano, Milan, Italy.
Jan 16, 2024	One paper was accepted by the 12th International Conference on Learning Representations [ICLR-24], which will take place on May 7-11, 2024, Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna, Austria.
Dec 1, 2023	Honored to win Gold Prize (Ranked 6/1097) in NeurIPS 2023 Competion - Single-Cell Perturbations [Link].
Nov 27, 2023	I have been invited to be a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence [TPAMI].
Nov 23, 2023	Honored to win the Sichuan University Tecent Scholarship (Special Grade).
Oct 19, 2023	I have been invited to be a Reviewer for BMC Bioinformatics [BMCBioinform].
Sep 12, 2023	I have been invited to be a PC member for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition [ICPR-24], which will take place on December 1-5, 2024, Kolkata, India.
Sep 8, 2023	One paper was accepted by Nature Communications [NatComm-23], 2023.
Apr 20, 2023	One paper was accepted by the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI-23], which will take place on Augest 19-25, 2023, Macao, S.A.R.
Mar 28, 2023	I have been invited to be a PC member for the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [NeurIPS-23], which will take place on December 10-16, 2023, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Mar 12, 2023	One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems [TNNLS-23], 2023.
Feb 28, 2023	One paper was accepted by the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition [CVPR-23], which will take place on June 18-22, 2023, Vancouver Convention Center.
Feb 6, 2023	I have been invited to be a PC member for the International Conference on Computer Vision [ICCV-23], which will take place on October 2-6, 2023, Paris Convention Center, Paris, France.

Selected Publications

2025

NatComm

MetaQ: fast, scalable and accurate metacell inference via single-cell quantization

Yunfan Li, Hancong Li, Yijie Lin, Dan Zhang, Dezhong Peng, Xiting Liu, Jie Xie, Peng Hu, Lu Chen, Han Luo, and others

Nature Communications, 2025

Bib PDF Code

@article{Li_NatComm2025_MetaQ,
  title = {MetaQ: fast, scalable and accurate metacell inference via single-cell quantization},
  author = {Li, Yunfan and Li, Hancong and Lin, Yijie and Zhang, Dan and Peng, Dezhong and Liu, Xiting and Xie, Jie and Hu, Peng and Chen, Lu and Luo, Han and others},
  journal = {Nature Communications},
  volume = {16},
  number = {1},
  pages = {1205},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
}

2024

ICML

Image Clustering with External Guidance

Yunfan Li, Peng Hu, Dezhong Peng, Jiancheng Lv, Jianping Fan, and Xi Peng

International Conference on Machine Learning (Oral), 2024

Bib PDF Code

@article{Li_ICML2024_TAC,
  title = {Image Clustering with External Guidance},
  author = {Li, Yunfan and Hu, Peng and Peng, Dezhong and Lv, Jiancheng and Fan, Jianping and Peng, Xi},
  journal = {International Conference on Machine Learning (Oral)},
  year = {2024},
}

2023

NatComm

scBridge embraces cell heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data integration

Yunfan Li*, Dan Zhang*, Mouxing Yang, Dezhong Peng, Jun Yu, Yu Liu, Jiancheng Lv, Lu Chen, and Xi Peng

Nature Communications, 2023

Bib PDF Code

@article{Li_NatComm2023_scBridge,
  title = {scBridge embraces cell heterogeneity in single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data integration},
  author = {Li*, Yunfan and Zhang*, Dan and Yang, Mouxing and Peng, Dezhong and Yu, Jun and Liu, Yu and Lv, Jiancheng and Chen, Lu and Peng, Xi},
  journal = {Nature Communications},
  volume = {14},
  number = {1},
  pages = {6045},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
}

2021

AAAI

Contrastive Clustering

Yunfan Li, Peng Hu, Zitao Liu, Dezhong Peng, Joey Tianyi Zhou, and Xi Peng

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

Bib PDF Code

@article{Li_AAAI2021_CC,
  title = {Contrastive Clustering},
  author = {Li, Yunfan and Hu, Peng and Liu, Zitao and Peng, Dezhong and Zhou, Joey Tianyi and Peng, Xi},
  journal = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {35},
  number = {10},
  pages = {8547--8555},
  year = {2021},
}