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Ziming Liu
Google Scholar ID: QeXHxlIAAAAJ
MIT
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Generative Models
AI for Science
Physics
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Publications
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Inverse Depth Scaling From Most Layers Being Similar
2026
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Universal One-third Time Scaling in Learning Peaked Distributions
2026
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Resume
Academic Achievements
- Publications:
- KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
- Seeing is believing: Brain-inspired modular training for mechanistic interpretability
- Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence
- The Clock and the Pizza: Two Stories in Mechanistic Explanation of Neural Networks
- Omnigrok: Grokking Beyond Algorithmic Data
- Poisson Flow Generative Models
- Machine Learning Hidden Symmetries
- Machine Learning Conservation Laws from Trajectories
Research Experience
- Postdoc at Stanford & Enigma, collaborating with Prof. Andreas Tolias
- Conducted research at MIT
Education
- Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Max Tegmark
- B.S.: Peking University
Background
- Research Interests: Intersection of AI and Science
- Professional Field: Science of AI, Science for AI, AI for Science
- Background: Currently a postdoc at Stanford & Enigma, working with Prof. Andreas Tolias. His research philosophy is inspired by John Hopfield.
Miscellany
- Media Coverage: Quanta magazine and other media outlets have covered all three branches of his research.
- Latest Blog Posts:
- Philosophical thoughts on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
- Symbolic Regreesion? Structure Regression!
- A Good ML Theory is Like Physics -- A Physicist's Analysis of Grokking
Co-authors
16 total
Max Tegmark
Professor of Physics, MIT
Yixuan Wang
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
Thomas Y. Hou
California Institute of Technology
Eric J. Michaud
Graduate student, MIT
Marin Soljacic
Professor of Physics, MIT
Tommi Jaakkola
MIT
Yonglong Tian
Research Scientist, OpenAI
Ziqian Zhong
Carnegie Mellon University