Indoor Climbing
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Bouldering has been my favorite sport since Fall 2024, especially on steep overhangs.
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Xena
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Xena is an American Shorthair tuxedo cat whom I adopted with two of my closest undergraduate friends.
publications
Robust Learning of a Group DRO Neuron
Published in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2026), 2026
Accepted to AISTATS 2026 (Poster). We study learning a single neuron under regularized Group DRO and give an efficient algorithm with provable guarantees.
Recommended citation: Guyang (Kevin) Cao, Shuyao Li, Sushrut Karmalkar, Jelena Diakonikolas. (2026). "Robust Learning of a Group DRO Neuron." AISTATS 2026.
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Efficiently Learning Drifting Halfspaces with Massart Noise
Published in International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), 2026
Accepted to ICML 2026. We give efficient algorithms for learning drifting margin halfspaces under Massart noise and establish statistical-computational tradeoffs.
Recommended citation: Mingchen Ma, Guyang Cao, Jelena Diakonikolas, Ilias Diakonikolas. (2026). "Efficiently Learning Drifting Halfspaces with Massart Noise." Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026).
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teaching
CS 220: Data Science Programming I
Undergraduate course, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Computer Sciences, 2026
Teaching assistant for an introductory course in Python programming and data science.
CS 412: Introduction to Numerical Methods
Undergraduate course, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Computer Sciences, 2026
Teaching assistant for an undergraduate course in numerical methods and scientific computing.