Chris Yuhao Liu

yliu298 [at] ucsc [dot] edu

I am an M.S. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I also work as a researcher at Professor Jeffrey Flanigan’s JLab.

My current research focuses on the scaling law between the amount of training data and the generalization performance of deep neural networks (aka the sample complexity rate).

Previously, I earned my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz.

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• [2021-09] I will serve as a teaching assistant for CSE 20 Beginning Programming in Python in Fall 2021 at UCSC.
• [2021-06] I will (re)join UCSC as a M.S. student.
• [2020-09] I am thrilled to tutor the course CSE142 Machine Learning in Fall 2020 at UCSC.
• [2020-06] I joined Professor Jeffrey Flanigan's JLab.

These included publications and preprints.

Faster Sample Complexity Rates With Ensemble Filtering
Chris Yuhao Liu, Jeffrey Flanigan
2021
In submission

We present a dataset filtering approach that uses sets of classifiers, similar to ensembling, to estimate noisy (or non-realizable) examples and exclude them so a faster sample complexity rate is achievable in practice.

These include coursework and side projects.

TAPT: Text Augmentation Using Pre-Trained Transformers With Reinforcement Learning
UC Santa Cruz
2020-07

A distilled RoBERTa model as a text classifier and a GPT-2 (345M) as a text generator trained using the proximal policy optimization (PPO) framework

Conditional Generation of Research Paper Abstracts with GPT-2
UC Santa Cruz
2020-06

A GPT-2 (774M) trained using all research paper titles and abstracts under cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.CL, and cs.CV on arXiv

This project was the winner of the Image/Text Generation Competition for the course CSE142 Machine Learning in Spring 2020.

Sentiment Analysis With Transformers
UC Santa Cruz
2020-06

A RoBERTa (355M) model using the IMDb dataset

This project was the winner of the Sentiment Analysis Competition for the course CSE142 Machine Learning in Spring 2020.

• Teaching Assistant, CSE 20 Beginning Programming in Python (Fall 2021)
• Volunteer, Thirty-eighth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021)
• Volunteer, Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021)
• Tutor and Reader, CSE 142 Machine Learning (Fall 2020)

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