Tuo Zhao

Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Joined

September 2017

Names

Tuo Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

Associate Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2017 – Present

PhD student

Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)

2011 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Machine Leanring

2011 – Present

Optimization

2011 – Present

Statistics

2011 – Present

Publications

A Minimalist Example of Edge-of-Stability and Progressive Sharpening
Liming Liu, Zixuan Zhang, Simon Shaolei Du, Tuo Zhao
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Convergence of Near-Linear Width ReLU Networks with Unbalanced Initialization
Zhenghao Xu, Tuo Zhao, Rachel Ward, Molei Tao
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
NorMuon: Making Muon more efficient and scalable
Zichong Li, Liming Liu, Chen Liang, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
LLMs Can Generate a Better Answer by Aggregating Their Own Responses
Zichong Li, Xinyu Feng, Yuheng Cai, Zixuan Zhang, Tianyi Liu, Chen Liang, Haoyu Wang, Tuo Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
On the Efficiency of Structured Pruning in Small Language Model Pretraining
Yixiao Li, Xianzhi Du, AJAY KUMAR JAISWAL, Tao Lei, Tuo Zhao, Chong Wang, Jianyu Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
COSMOS: A Hybrid Adaptive Optimizer for Efficient Training of Large Language Models
Liming Liu, Zhenghao Xu, Zixuan Zhang, Hao Kang, Zichong Li, Chen Liang, Weizhu Chen, Tuo Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
Lawrence Liu, Alexander Liu, Mengdi Wang, Tuo Zhao, Lin F. Yang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Minimalist Example of Edge-of-Stability and Progressive Sharpening
Liming Liu, Zixuan Zhang, Simon Shaolei Du, Tuo Zhao
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Ask a Strong LLM Judge when Your Reward Model is Uncertain
Zhenghao Xu, Qin Lu, Qingru Zhang, Liang Qiu, Ilgee Hong, Changlong Yu, Wenlin Yao, Yao Liu, Haoming Jiang, Lihong Li, Hyokun Yun, Tuo Zhao
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Think-RM: Enabling Long-Horizon Reasoning in Generative Reward Models
Ilgee Hong, Changlong Yu, Liang Qiu, Weixiang Yan, Zhenghao Xu, Haoming Jiang, Qingru Zhang, Qin Lu, Xin Liu, Chao Zhang, Tuo Zhao
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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