Zhihan Yang
Scholar

Zhihan Yang

Google Scholar ID: WjinQ20AAAAJ
Cornell University
machine learninggenerative models
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
227
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
5
 
Publications
9
 
Co-authors
22
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
  • - Paper: Esoteric Language Models (2025)
  • - Paper: Block Diffusion: Interpolating Between Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (ICLR Oral, 2025)
  • - Paper: Adversarial Bandits for Drawing Generalizable Conclusions in Non-Adversarial Experiments: An Empirical Study (EDM Short Paper, 2022)
  • - Paper: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning under Mixed Observability (WAFR, 2022)
  • - Paper: Recurrent Off-policy Baselines for Memory-based Continuous Control (Deep RL Workshop @ NeurIPS, 2021)
  • - Paper: Game Level Clustering and Generation using Gaussian Mixture VAEs (AIIDE Oral, 2020)
Research Experience
  • Currently a first-year PhD student at Cornell CS.
Education
  • B.A. in Mathematics and Statistics from Carleton College; Advisors included Seth Cooper, Anna Rafferty, Christopher Amato, and Adam Loy.
Background
  • Research Interest: Machine learning, specifically generative models.
Miscellany
  • Other projects: Upcoming.