Hongru Yang

Joined

May 2022

Names

Hongru Yang (Preferred)

Emails

****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin (utexas.edu)

2019 – 2025

Undergrad student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2022 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Transformers Provably Learn Two-Mixture of Linear Classification via Gradient Flow
Hongru Yang, Zhangyang Wang, Jason D. Lee, Yingbin Liang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Training Dynamics of Transformers to Recognize Word Co-occurrence via Gradient Flow Analysis
Hongru Yang, Bhavya Kailkhura, Zhangyang Wang, Yingbin Liang
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Convergence and Generalization of Wide Neural Networks with Large Bias
Hongru Yang, Ziyu Jiang, Ruizhe Zhang, Zhangyang Wang, Yingbin Liang
- 2023 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Pruning Before Training May Improve Generalization, Provably
Hongru Yang, Yingbin Liang, Xiaojie Guo, Lingfei Wu, Zhangyang Wang
- 2023 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Theoretical Characterization of How Neural Network Pruning Affects its Generalization
Hongru Yang, Yingbin Liang, Xiaojie Guo, Lingfei Wu, Zhangyang Wang
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Sharper Analysis of Sparsely Activated Wide Neural Networks with Trainable Biases
Hongru Yang, Ziyu Jiang, Ruizhe Zhang, Zhangyang Wang, Yingbin Liang
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
On the Neural Tangent Kernel Analysis of Randomly Pruned Wide Neural Networks
Hongru Yang, Zhangyang Wang
- 2022 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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