Nicholas Roberts Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisor: Frederic Sala
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6 SEP 2017
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  • Excited to visit Chris Ré’s lab at Stanford University this August!
  • Two papers accepted to COLM 2025!
    • Manticore for constructing pretrained hybrids from non-hybrid base models without pretraining!
    • Meta MLGym: a framework for benchmarking and developing agents for AI research!
  • Presented at ACL 2025:
    • We discover a new scaling law phenomenon! Compute optima for knowledge favor larger models, whereas those for reasoning favor more data.
  • I am extremely fortunate to have received an honorable mention for the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship! Thank you, Jane Street!
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