Jincheng Cao

PhD student, University of Texas at Austin

Joined

May 2023

Names

Jincheng Cao (Preferred)

Emails

****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Texas at Austin (utexas.edu)

2021 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2022 – Present

Expertise

Optimization

Present

Machine Learning

Present

Publications

CARE-RFT: Confidence-Anchored Reinforcement Finetuning for Reliable Reasoning in Large Language Models
Shuozhe Li, Jincheng Cao, Bodun Hu, Aryan Mokhtari, Liu Leqi, Amy Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
On the Complexity of Finding Stationary Points in Nonconvex Simple Bilevel Optimization
Jincheng Cao, Ruichen Jiang, Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani, Aryan Mokhtari
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
An Accelerated Gradient Method for Convex Smooth Simple Bilevel Optimization
Jincheng Cao, Ruichen Jiang, Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani, Aryan Mokhtari
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Projection-Free Methods for Stochastic Simple Bilevel Optimization with Convex Lower-level Problem
Jincheng Cao, Ruichen Jiang, Nazanin Abolfazli, Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani, Aryan Mokhtari
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors