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Yuchen Zhang

Ph.D. Student
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science
zhangy94(at)rpi.edu


About Me

Hi, I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, advised by Dr. Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri. Previously, I was advised by Dr. Ziniu Hu from xAI. My research interest lies broadly in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I aim to make AI and LLMs beneficial for everyone. I’m exploring Data-Centric AI, e.g. data attribution and selection. I’m also trying to enhance language models’ capabilities by self-improvement, e.g. representation steering and reinforcement learning.

Prior to that, I obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in 2021 and a Master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2023 advised by Dr. Jr-Shin Li.

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  1. ICML
    Min Cai, Yuchen Zhang, Shichang Zhang, Difan Zou, Yisong Yue, Ziniu Hu
    Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild & Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop ICML 2024

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