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Fred Zhang
z0@berkeley.eduI am a research scientist at Google DeepMind, working on reasoning & RL.
I completed my Ph.D. from the Theory Group at Berkeley EECS in 2024, advised by Jelani Nelson. Prior to that, I received B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics from Duke University.
Links: Google Scholar / Twitter
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Topics: Language model / Algorithmic statistics / Sublinear algorithms / Learning-based algorithms / Others
Google DeepMind, ICPC 2025 Team (incl. Fred Zhang).
Blogpost, 2025
Google DeepMind, IMO 2025 Team (incl. Fred Zhang as key contributor).
Blogpost, 2025 (media coverage: NYT, WSJ, Ars Technica, Reuters)
Gemini Team (incl. Fred Zhang).
Technical report, 2025 (arXiv)
Ezra Karger*, Houtan Bastani*, Chen Yueh-Han*, Zachary Jacobs, Danny Halawi, Fred Zhang, Philip E. Tetlock (* Equal contribution).
Danny Halawi*, Fred Zhang*, Chen Yueh-Han*, Jacob Steinhardt (* Equal contribution).
NeurIPS 2024 (arXiv, Twitter thread, blogpost, code)
Fred Zhang, Neel Nanda (contribution order).
Zhou Lu, Qiuyi Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Fred Zhang, David P. Woodruff, Elad Hazan (contribution order)
Anders Aamand, Justin Y. Chen, Allen Liu, Sandeep Silwal, Pattara Sukprasert, Ali Vakilian, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order)
NeurIPS 2023 Spotlight
David P. Woodruff, Samson Zhou, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Daniel Alabi, Pravesh K. Kothari, Pranay Tankala, Prayaag Venkat, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Manolis Zampetakis, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Sandeep Silwal, David P. Woodruff, Qiuyi Zhang, Fred Zhang, Samson Zhou (alphabetical order).
Binghui Peng, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
SODA 2023 Best Student Paper (arXiv, talk at Google, talk at TTIC)
David P. Woodruff, Qiuyi Zhang, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order)
Justin Y. Chen, Sandeep Silwal, Ali Vakilian, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Samuel B. Hopkins, Jerry Li, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Alexander Wei, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Zhixian Lei, Kyle Luh, Prayaag Venkat, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
Preetum Nakkiran, Gal Kaplun, Dimitris Kalimeris, Tristan Yang, Benjamin L. Edelman, Fred Zhang, Boaz Barak (contribution order).
NeurIPS 2019 Spotlight ( arXiv)
Kyle Fox, Debmalya Panigrahi, Fred Zhang (alphabetical order).
SODA 2019 & ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) (journal version)
Notes
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Leverage Score and Feature Dimensionality (comment on Toy Models of Superposition, 2023)
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Mirror Descent and Online Learning (lecture note, 2019)
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The Topological Approach Towards Graph Evasiveness (survey, 2017)
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Berkeley Food Opinions (2024)