NAME
Yuan Lu
ABOUT
Hello! I am a machine learning researcher currently living in London. My focus is on reinforcement learning, diffusion models, representation learning, and energy-based models. My long-term interest is to build machine intelligence that can autonomously understand and interact with the world. [MORE INFO]
EDUCATION
--PhD Machine Learning
TBA
--MSc Machine Learning
Distinction, with David Barber, University College London
--BSc Psychology
First, with Maarten Speekenbrink, University College London
PUBLISHINGS
see my google scholar for the full list
Improving Diffusion Planners by Self-Supervised Action Gating with Energies [PAPER] [CODE]
Yuan Lu, Dongqi Han, Yansen Wang, Dongsheng Li
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
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PROJECTS
avae, hfm, imm, ddm, beyond-diffusion,
advanced-topics-in-machine-learning, approximate-inference,
unsupervised-learning, reinforcement-learning,
supervised-learning-i, supervised-learning-ii,
NOTES
I’m working on sharing machine learning study notes I’ve made in
school on my homepage, and make them interactive. I’ll keep updating
this space from time to time!
INPROGESS / A BLOG
PHOTOS
presence places I lived and traveled to.
faces people I met, with their ideas.
land and sea landscapes.
time together modern loneliness.
CONTACT
--meet me in London for coffee or beer, I am in Beijing & Shanghai quite often, too.
--edluyuan /at/ gmail /dot/ com