Tao Sun

Research Scientist, Bytedance

Joined

May 2019

Names

Tao Sun (Preferred)

TAO SUN

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@bytedance.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Bytedance (bytedance.com)

2023 – Present

Applied Scientist

Amazon (amazon.com)

2018 – 2023

PhD student

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (umass.edu)

2012 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Daniel Sheldon

2012 – 2018

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

Probabilistic Modeling

Large Language Models

Present

Publications

Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs
Shenao Zhang, Zhihan Liu, Boyi Liu, Yufeng Zhang, Yingxiang Yang, Yongfei Liu, Liyu Chen, Tao Sun, Zhaoran Wang
- ICLR 2025 Workshop Data Problems Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs
Shenao Zhang, Zhihan Liu, Boyi Liu, Yufeng Zhang, Yingxiang Yang, Yongfei Liu, Liyu Chen, Tao Sun, Zhaoran Wang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs
Shenao Zhang, Zhihan Liu, Boyi Liu, Yufeng Zhang, Yingxiang Yang, Yongfei Liu, Liyu Chen, Tao Sun, Zhaoran Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
$\mathcal{B}$-Coder: On Value-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Program Synthesis
Zishun Yu, Yunzhe Tao, Liyu Chen, Tao Sun, Hongxia Yang
- FMDM@NeurIPS2023
- Readers: Everyone
$\mathcal{B}$-Coder: Value-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Program Synthesis
Zishun Yu, Yunzhe Tao, Liyu Chen, Tao Sun, Hongxia Yang
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Gated Transformer for Decoding Human Brain EEG Signals
Yunzhe Tao, Tao Sun, Aashiq Muhamed, Sahika Genc, Dylan Jackson, Ali Arsanjani, Suri Yaddanapudi, Liang Li, Prachi Kumar
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- EMBC 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Three-quarter Sibling Regression for Denoising Observational Data
Shiv Shankar, Daniel Sheldon, Tao Sun, John Pickering, Thomas G. Dietterich
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 19 Sept 2023
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
REPAINT: Knowledge Transfer in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Yunzhe Tao, Sahika Genc, Jonathan Chung, Tao Sun, Sunil Mallya
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 25 Sept 2023
- ICML 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning with Deep Attention Convolutional Neural Networks
Sahika Genc, Sunil Mallya, Sravan Bodapati, Tao Sun, Yunzhe Tao
- 2020 (modified: 26 Dec 2021)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
DeepRacer: Autonomous Racing Platform for Experimentation with Sim2Real Reinforcement Learning
Bharathan Balaji, Sunil Mallya, Sahika Genc, Saurabh Gupta, Leo Dirac, Vineet Khare, Gourav Roy, Tao Sun, Yunzhe Tao, Brian Townsend, Eddie Calleja, Sunil Muralidhara, Dhanasekar Karuppasamy
- 2020 (modified: 17 Apr 2023)
- ICRA 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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