Zifan (Eric) Zhao

I'm a junior undergraduate at NYU Shanghai majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. My research interests lie in embodied intelligence, multimodal representation learning, and reinforcement learning.

I'm currently working with Prof. Lerrel Pinto in the General-purpose Robotics and AI Labs (GRAIL). I’m the founding chair of NYUSH ACM Student Chapter and organized the Digital Innovation Challenge 2023.

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News


  • 2025-04: One paper is accepted at TMLR 2025.
  • 2024-09: One paper is accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
  • 2024-08: Our TARS robot from Interstellar took its first step! Watch here.
  • 2024-06: Invited by NYUSH AI Interest Group to give an introductory ML talk.

Publications


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Cross Entropy versus Label Smoothing: A Neural Collapse Perspective
Li Guo, Keith Ross, Zifan Zhao, George Andriopoulos, Shuyang Ling, Yufeng Xu, Zixuan Dong
TMLR 2025
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The Prevalence of Neural Collapse in Neural Multivariate Regression
Zifan Zhao*, Li Guo*, George Andriopoulos*, Zixuan Dong*, Keith Ross*†
NeurIPS 2024

* indicates equal contribution.