I’m a first-year PhD student at UC Berkeley EECS, supervised by Prof. Somayeh Sojoudi. I graduated from Peking University previously, working with Prof. Yisen Wang and Prof. Lin Yang. My current research interests are self-supervised learning and reinforcement learning. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaboration!

Email: kaiwen_hu [at] berkeley (dot) edu

News

• 2025.03: I have accepted the PhD offer from UC Berkeley EECS. Many thanks!
• 2025.01: Our paper on contrastive learning theory is accepted at ICLR 2025!
• 2024.09: Our paper on equivariant self-supervised learning theory is accepted at NeurIPS 2024!

Publications

Projection Head is Secretly an Information Bottleneck
Zhuo Ouyang*, Kaiwen Hu*, Qi Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang
In ICLR 2025.
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Understanding the Role of Equivariance in Self-supervised Learning
Yifei Wang*, Kaiwen Hu*, Sharut Gupta, Ziyu Ye, Yisen Wang, Stefanie Jegelka
In NeurIPS 2024.
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