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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Statistics

Tong Zhang

Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Professor, Statistics

Recent Publications

Ye, H., Huang, Z., Fang, C., Li, C. J., & Zhang, T. (Accepted/In press). Hessian-Aware Zeroth-Order Optimization. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3548810

Chen, S., Ma, S., So, A. M. C., & Zhang, T. (2024). Nonsmooth Optimization over the Stiefel Manifold and Beyond: Proximal Gradient Method and Recent Variants. SIAM Review, 66(2), 319-352. https://doi.org/10.1137/24M1628578

Diao, S., Wang, P., Lin, Y., Pan, R., Liu, X., & Zhang, T. (2024). Active Prompting with Chain-of-Thought for Large Language Models. In L.-W. Ku, A. F. T. Martins, & V. Srikumar (Eds.), Long Papers (pp. 1330-1350). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Vol. 1). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.73

Diao, S., Pan, R., Dong, H., Shum, K. S., Zhang, J., Xiong, W., & Zhang, T. (2024). LMFlow: An Extensible Toolkit for Finetuning and Inference of Large Foundation Models. 116-127. Paper presented at 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2024, Hybrid, Mexico City, Mexico. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-demo.12

Dong, H., Xiong, W., Pang, B., Wang, H., Zhao, H., Zhou, Y., Jiang, N., Sahoo, D., Xiong, C., & Zhang, T. (2024). RLHF Workflow: From Reward Modeling to Online RLHF A Comprehensive Practical Alignment Recipe of Iterative Preference Learning. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024.

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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Statistics

Computing Applications Building, Room 156

605 E. Springfield Ave.

Champaign, IL 61820

(217) 333-2167

Email: stat-office@illinois.edu

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