Yizhou Liu

Yizhou Liu is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, working in the lab of Professor Jeff Gore. His research spans the physics of artificial intelligence and ecology/evolution, studying topics such as neural scaling laws, AI optimizers, and ecosystem stability. He is a co-author on multiple papers examining the theoretical underpinnings of large language model training, including work on superposition-based neural scaling and the physics of skill learning.