Songtao Liu (刘松涛)

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Email: skl5761@psu.edu

Hi, this is Songtao. I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State. I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Data Science from Fudan University.

My research focuses on efficient architectures and expressive algorithms for language modeling.

I am on the job market!

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution (first, second, or senior)

• Multi-Head Low-Rank Attention
  Songtao Liu, Hongwu Peng, Zhiwei Zhang, Zhengyu Chen, Yue Guo
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  [arXiv] [Blog] [Code] [Weights&Data]
• Preference Optimization for Molecule Synthesis with Conditional Residual Energy-based Models
  Songtao Liu, Hanjun Dai, Peng Liu
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  Oral Presentation
  [arXiv] [Code]
• Graph Adversarial Diffusion Convolution
  Songtao Liu, Jinghui Chen, Lu Lin, Marinka Zitnik, Dinghao Wu
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  [arXiv] [Code]
• FusionRetro: Molecule Representation Fusion via In-Context Learning for Retrosynthetic Planning
  Songtao Liu, Zhengkai Tu*, Minkai Xu*, Zuobai Zhang*, Lu Lin, Rex Ying, Jian Tang, Peilin Zhao, Dinghao Wu
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
  [arXiv] [Code]
• Local Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks
  Songtao Liu, Rex Ying, Hanze Dong, Lanqing Li, Tingyang Xu, Yu Rong, Peilin Zhao, Junzhou Huang, Dinghao Wu
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022
  [arXiv] [Code]

Professional Services

Conference Reviewer: ICML 2022/2024/2025, NeurIPS 2022/2023/2024/2025, ICLR 2024/2025/2026