Yiyuan Luo骆艺元

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I am a third-year (starting from 2024) Ph.D. student at 🍌UC Santa Cruz, advised by Prof. Vaggos Chatziafratis.

✨ Research

I'm interested in representations in foundation models: where a model's capabilities come from, how they are encoded, and when they can be transferred between models. Many of my ideas start from questioning contrastive learning, the approach I first worked on.

I'm always happy to find collaborators. Feel free to reach out if these questions interest you too! :)

🔥 News

04/2026: One paper accepted by ICML 2026 as a spotlight.
02/2026: One paper accepted by STOC 2026.
09/2025: My first paper got accepted in NeurIPS 2025. See you in San Diego!