Linrong Cai/ Chris Cai

Math and CS student at UW-Madison

About

I'm Linrong Cai/ Chris Cai, a senior Math and CS undergraduate at University of Wisconsin Madison. My research focuses on data-efficient machine learning, foundations of ML, and robustness to mixed distributions, emphasizing learning with noise and limited data. I am doing research study under Professor Frederic Sala and Professor Jelena Diakonikolas. I also have a strong interest in Optimization, and have finished courses related to Analysis, Measure Theory, Probability, Combinatorics, Abstract Algebra at UW-Madison. You can take a look at my courses taken page. I am fortunate to be mentored by Dyah Adila, Nicholas Roberts, and Nikos Zarifis, at UW-Madison.

News

I received NeurIPS 2024 Scholar Award 🎉!
Oct 2024
Our paper Stronger Than You Think 🔧 got accepted to NeurIPS 2024 D&B !
Sept 2024
Our paper on Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks got accepted to DMLR at ICML 2024 !
June 2024
Our paper RoboShot 🤖 got accepted to ICLR 2024 !
Jan 2024
Our paper on robustifying foundation models was awarded best paper award honorable mention 🎉 at NeurIPS R0-FoMo workshop!
Dec 2023

Publications

Stronger Than You Think: Benchmarking Weak Supervision on Realistic Tasks @ Neurips 2024 D&B
Authors: Linrong Cai*, Tianyi Zhang*, Nicholas Roberts, Jeffrey Li, Neel Guha, Frederic Sala
Zero-Shot Robustification of Zero-Shot Models @ ICLR 2024
Authors: Dyah Adila*, Changho Shin*, Linrong Cai, Frederic Sala

Experience

Undergraduate Research Assistant with Professor Jelena Diakonikolas

Working on topics related to Learning with Distribution Mixtures and Noise.

Jan 2024 - present
Machine Learning Research Assistant with Professor Frederic Sala

Working on topics related to Weak Supervision, Alignment, and Robustification.

June 2022 - present
Madison Experimental Mathematics Lab (MXM)

We researched on given two random elements of SL2(Z), what is the probability that they generate a free group. Advised by Professor Caglar Uyanik

2022 Spring
Grader for Math 435 Cryptography

Working as a grader for Professor Eric Bach, require Cryptography, Linear Algebra, Elementary Set Theory knowledge for grading.

2022 Fall
Grader for Math 475 Combinatorics

Working as a grader for Professor Mitch Keller, require Combinatorics.

2023 Fall

Education

University of Wisconsin Madison

B.S. in Math & CS

GPA 3.987/4.000

September 2021 - present
Tianjin No. 1 High School

Science Innovation Talents Training Project Experimental Class for Top 100 students in the City

September 2018 - July 2021

Miscellaneous

Conway's Game of Life

Contact

lcai54@wisc.edu