About Me

I am Yifan Zhang, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Machine Learning at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Yang Yuan and Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao. For the academic year 2024-2025, I am a visiting student at UCLA, advised by Prof. Quanquan Gu. Previously, I completed my undergraduate studies at Yuanpei College, Peking University.

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Research Topics

• Pre-training & Post-training of Language Models
• AI Reasoning & Alignment
• Representation Learning