A Sampler’s Blog

The blogger is an ML researcher at Morgan Stanley, dedicated to transformer-based options trading and hedging. His research focuses on exploratory sampling and latent reasoning for LLMs. He also shares research ideas he finds insightful and occasional updates on his own work.
His recent works include reasoning (GDPO), test-time alignment (TRI-TSMC), discrete diffusion (GDPO, SCDD, DiDi Instruct), continuous diffusion (VSDM, VSMD, SB-TS), and multi-modal samplers (DeepPT, Contour Samplers). Before MS, he received his Ph.D. at Purdue in 2021 and BS at BJTU in 2012. He was also a senior software developer at Baidu from 2012-2015.
Contact me at: firstnamelastname056@gmail.com. Also looking for tennis enthusiast in NJ.
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