Zixuan Dong
Scholar

Zixuan Dong

Google Scholar ID: lbtEL90AAAAJ
New York University
Reinforcement LearningDeep LearningNeural Collapse
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
35
 
H-index
3
 
i10-index
2
 
Publications
7
 
Co-authors
5
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • 1. George Andriopoulos*, Zixuan Dong*, Li Guo*, Zifan Zhao*, Keith Ross*, “The Prevalence of Neural Collapse in Neural Multivariate Regression”, Accepted by NeurIPS 2024
  • 2. Zecheng Wang*, Che Wang*, Zixuan Dong*, Keith Ross, “Pre-training with Synthetic Data Helps Offline Reinforcement Learning”, Accepted by ICLR 2024
  • 3. Li Guo, Keith Ross, Zifan Zhao, George Andriopoulos, Shuyang Ling, Yufeng Xu, Zixuan Dong, “Cross Entropy versus Label Smoothing: A Neural Collapse Perspective”, arXiv preprint, 2024
  • 4. Zixuan Dong, Che Wang, Keith W. Ross, “On the Convergence of Monte Carlo UCB for Random-Length Episodic MDPs”, arXiv preprint, 2022
  • (* Equal Contribution)
Research Experience
  • During his undergraduate, he worked with Professor Keith Ross on the convergence property of classic algorithms in tabular RL and Multi-armed Bandit literature.
Education
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • School: NYU Shanghai
  • Major: Honors Mathematics and Data Science, with a concentration in AI
  • Advisor: Professor Keith Ross
  • Time: During undergraduate studies
Background
  • Research Interests: Application and theory of reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning, with a focus on enhancing the sample efficiency and generalization of deep RL algorithms. He is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at NYU Shanghai and NYU Courant.
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: Kendo, Cooking