Kai Zhong

Researcher, Amazon

Joined

September 2018

Names

Kai Zhong

Emails

****@ices.utexas.edu (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Amazon (amazon.com)

2018 – Present

PhD student

University of Texas, Austin (utexas.edu)

2012 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Inderjit Dhillon

2012 – 2018

PhD Advisor

2012 – 2018

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

SFT Doesn’t Always Hurt General Capabilities: Revisiting Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning in LLMs
Jiacheng Lin, Zhongruo Wang, Kun Qian, Tian Wang, Arvind Srinivasan, Hansi Zeng, Ruochen Jiao, Xie Zhou, Jiri Gesi, Dakuo Wang, Yufan Guo, Kai Zhong, Weiqi Zhang, sujay sanghavi, Changyou Chen, Hyokun Yun, Lihong Li
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Extreme multi-label learning for semantic matching in product search
Wei-Cheng Chang, Daniel L. Jiang, Hsiang-Fu Yu, Jiong Zhang, Kai Zhong, Inderjit S Dhillon
- 17 May 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
PECOS: Prediction for Enormous and Correlated Output Spaces
Hsiang-Fu Yu, Kai Zhong, Jiong Zhang, Wei-Cheng Chang, Inderjit S Dhillon
- 04 Feb 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
MixLasso: Generalized Mixed Regression via Convex Atomic-Norm Regularization
Ian En-Hsu Yen, Wei-Cheng Lee, Kai Zhong, Sung-En Chang, Pradeep Ravikumar, Shou-De Lin
- 2018 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NeurIPS 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Binary Classification with Karmic, Threshold-Quasi-Concave Metrics
Bowei Yan, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Kai Zhong, Pradeep Ravikumar
- 2018 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICML 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Recovery Guarantees for One-hidden-layer Neural Networks
Kai Zhong, Zhao Song, Prateek Jain, Peter L. Bartlett, Inderjit S. Dhillon
- 2017 (modified: 04 May 2023)
- ICML 2017
- Readers: Everyone
Coordinate-wise Power Method
Qi Lei, Kai Zhong, Inderjit S. Dhillon
- 2016 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2016
- Readers: Everyone
Mixed Linear Regression with Multiple Components
Kai Zhong, Prateek Jain, Inderjit S. Dhillon
- 2016 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2016
- Readers: Everyone
Dual Decomposed Learning with Factorwise Oracle for Structural SVM of Large Output Domain
Ian En-Hsu Yen, Xiangru Huang, Kai Zhong, Ruohan Zhang, Pradeep Ravikumar, Inderjit S. Dhillon
- 2016 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2016
- Readers: Everyone
PD-Sparse : A Primal and Dual Sparse Approach to Extreme Multiclass and Multilabel Classification
Ian En-Hsu Yen, Xiangru Huang, Pradeep Ravikumar, Kai Zhong, Inderjit S. Dhillon
- 2016 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- ICML 2016
- Readers: Everyone

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