Top Statistician: AI Needs New Math Language

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• •Weijie Su is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, with joint appointments in Computer Science, Biostatistics, and Mathematics, and co-directs the Penn Research in Machine Learning Center[1][3].
• •Su has received multiple prestigious awards including the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, IMS Peter Gavin Hall Prize, SIAM Early Career Prize in Data Science, ASA Gottfried Noether Early Career Award, and ICBS Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics[3].
• •His recent research focuses on statistical foundations of large language models, including papers on whether LLMs need statistical foundations, aligning LLMs with human preferences via Nash equilibrium, and algorithmic bias in RLHF leading to preference collapse[1][3][6].
• •Su has developed contributions to optimization like SplitSGD for robust learning rate selection and studies on the local elasticity of neural networks, alongside work on the new Muon optimizer for language models[2][5].

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