I am Shuo Xie (解说), a first-year Ph.D. student at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, advised by Professor Zhiyuan Li. I am currently working on deep learning theory and optimization.
Previously, I received a B.S. degree in statistics from Peking University and a M.S. degree in statistics from University of Chicago and did research in natural language processing with Hongyuan Mei and Hao Tan.

[Email][Github]

Publications

Implicit Bias of AdamW: Infinity-Norm Constrained Optimization
Shuo Xie, Zhiyuan Li
ICML 2024

Hidden State Variability of Pretrained Language Models Can Guide Computation Reduction for Transfer Learning
Shuo Xie, Jiahao Qiu, Ankita Pasad, Li Du, Qing Qu, Hongyuan Mei
Findings of EMNLP 2022

Honors and Awards

Gold Medal in Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (CMO)
Rank 1st in Chinese Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO)

Miscellaneous

During my undergraduate time, I was member of the Peking University Softball Team and our team won the championship of the Beijing University softball tournament twice.
I was also the captain of the Softball Team of School of Mathematical Sciences. Here are some photos when I play softball. A swing Last day at PKU
In my spare time, I also enjoy hiking, climbing, cycling and I am always happy to try new kinds of sports.