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.