Huitao Yang

Master Student in Statistics @ UCLA

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Hello — I’m Huitao. I study foundation models, focusing on interpreting their behavior through theory and controlled experiments. I am also passionate about topics in RL and probability.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Mathematics & Applied Mathematics at Fudan University. I am grateful to Prof. Guanting Chen, Prof. Andrea Zanette, and Prof. Zengfeng Huang for their mentorship and support.

Outside of academia, I enjoy hiking, biking, playing soccer, and diving into board games.

I am still working on building this site…

news

Sep 22, 2025 Joining UCLA :sparkles:

selected publications

  1. Preprint
    Greedy Selection under Independent Increments: A Toy Model Analysis
    Huitao Yang
    2025
  2. Fast Best-of-N Decoding via Speculative Rejection
    Hanshi Sun, Momin Haider, Ruiqi Zhang, and 6 more authors
    2024