Minji Yang

About Me

I am a second year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Weiming Feng.

My research interests are in theoretical computer science, with a focus on sampling and counting.

Prior to this, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science from Yao Class, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University.

Education

• The University of Hong Kong, Ph.D. in Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science, Aug. 2024 - Present
  Advisor: Prof. Weiming Feng
• Tsinghua University, B.Eng. in Computer Science, Yao Class, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Aug. 2020 - Jun. 2024

Publications

1. Rapid mixing in positively weighted restricted Boltzmann machines
   Weiming Feng, Heng Guo, Minji Yang
   FOCS 2026
   arXiv

2. On Computing Total Variation Distance Between Mixtures of Product Distributions
   Weiming Feng, Yucheng Fu, Minji Yang, Anqi Zhang
   RANDOM 2026
   arXiv

3. Rapid Mixing of Glauber Dynamics for Monotone Systems via Entropic Independence
   Weiming Feng, Minji Yang
   SODA 2026
   arXiv

4. Approximating the total variation distance between spin systems
   Weiming Feng, Hongyang Liu, Minji Yang
   COLT 2025
   arXiv

Talks

• Rapid Mixing of Glauber Dynamics for Monotone Systems via Entropic Independence SODA 2026, Jan. 13, 2026, Vancouver

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