Derek Tam

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I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto advised by Colin Raffel, working in machine learning and NLP. I am interested in model merging and understanding why different merging methods behave the way they do. Previously, I worked on parameter-efficient fine-tuning and few-shot learning.

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About Me

I spent the first three years of my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill, where I also worked with Mohit Bansal. Before that, I received a M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst while supervised by Andrew McCallum. I received a B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Outside of research, I am also a member of Friendship Baptist Church.