Scholar
Nicholas Roberts
Google Scholar ID: 6NFzfAgAAAAJ
PhD candidate UW-Madison
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,591
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
21
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Honorable mention for the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship (2025).
- Named an MLCommons Rising Star (2023).
- Paper 'Pretrained Hybrids with MAD Skills' accepted to COLM 2025.
- Paper 'MLGym: A New Framework and Benchmark for Advancing AI Research Agents' accepted to COLM 2025.
- Presented 'Compute Optimal Scaling of Skills: Knowledge vs Reasoning' at ACL 2025, revealing distinct compute allocation optima for knowledge versus reasoning tasks.
- Introduced Manticore: a method to construct pretrained hybrid models from non-hybrid bases without pretraining.
- Developed Meta MLGym: a framework for benchmarking and developing AI research agents.
- Published works on scaling laws, data mixture balancing (R&B), and reward models for code verification (including ICML 2025 workshops and preprints).
