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Zhaoran Wang

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and (by courtesy) Computer Science

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Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Research Interests

The long-term goal of my research is to develop a new generation of data-driven decision-making methods, theory, and systems, which tailor artificial intelligence towards addressing pressing societal challenges. To this end, my research aims at:

(a) making autonomous learning agents more efficient, both computationally and statistically, in a principled manner to enable their applications in critical domains;

(b) scaling autonomous learning agents to design and optimize societal-scale multi-agent systems, especially those involving cooperation and/or competition among humans and/or robots.

With this aim in mind, my research interests span across machine learning, optimization, statistics, game theory, and information theory.

Selected Publications

Local Linear Attention: An Optimal Interpolation of Linear and Softmax Attention For Test-Time Regression

Y Zuo, Y Yin, Z Zeng, A Li, B Zhu, Z Wang

International Conference on Learning Representations

Reason for Future, Act for Now: A Principled Framework for Autonomous LLM Agents with Provable Sample Efficiency

Z Liu, H Hu, S Zhang, H Guo, S Ke, B Liu, Z Wang

International Conference on Machine Learning

What and How Does In-Context Learning Learn? Bayesian Model Averaging, Parameterization, and Generalization

Y Zhang, F Zhang, Z Yang, Z Wang

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics