Tianzhe Chu
Scholar

Tianzhe Chu

Google Scholar ID: v6HphBcAAAAJ
The University of Hong Kong
Machine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
483
 
H-index
6
 
i10-index
6
 
Publications
6
 
Co-authors
7
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 1. SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training - ICML 2025
  • 2. Seeing from Another Perspective: Evaluating Multi-View Understanding in MLLMs - Preprint
  • 3. Emergence of Segmentation with Minimalistic White-Box Transformers - CPAL 2024(Oral), NeurIPS 2023 XAI Workshop(Oral)
  • 4. Image Clustering via the Principle of Rate Reduction in the Age of Pretrained Models - ICLR 2024
  • 5. White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction - NeurIPS 2023
  • 6. White-Box Transformers via Sparse Rate Reduction: Compression Is All There Is? - JMLR
Research Experience
  • 1. Conducted research at Berkeley
  • 2. Teaching Assistant for DATA8014
Education
  • 1. Ph.D. student at HKU IDS, advised by Prof. Yi Ma (Fall 2024)
  • 2. B.Eng. in Computer Science (Honor) from ShanghaiTech University (graduation year not provided)
Background
  • Research Interests: Data, architecture, training, and understanding of foundation models; particularly interested in empirical understanding of training (M)LLM with reinforcement learning. Conducted representation learning and interpretability research during a visit to Berkeley.
Miscellany
  • From Suzhou, enjoys seasoning dishes with sweetness. Gets easily annoyed by cooking philosophies that are opposite to his.