Zixun Huang is a fourth-year Statistics undergraduate at Peking University and a visiting student at UC Berkeley, specializing in theoretical machine learning and reinforcement learning theory. As a Research Study Assistant, he developed a Functional Scaling Law that models SGD intrinsic time to accurately predict loss trajectories across learning-rate schedules, work that was accepted as a NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight. His research validated efficiency gains on 0.1B–1B-scale LLMs and highlighted the practical benefits of warmup–stable–decay schedules. With seven years of hands-on experience in quantitative research, he bridges rigorous theory with empirical validation and collaborates closely with leading ML theorists. Quietly pragmatic, he pairs mathematical depth from his mathematics training with an experimental sensibility shaped by large-model optimization studies.
6 years of coding experience
Visiting Student, Visiting Student at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Peking University
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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