Zitong Yang

@ZitongYang0

Continually self-improving AI

Mountain View, CA

zitongyang.github.io

Joined November 2018

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Zitong Yang
@ZitongYang0
Mar 4
Today I defended my Ph.D. thesis at Stanford: Continually self-improving AI. Sincere thanks to my committee @EmmanuelCandes @tatsu_hashimoto @percyliang @ruomingpang for the mentorship over the years and to Stephen Boyd for chairing my defense. Checout the recording
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Zitong Yang
@ZitongYang0
Jul 17
So impressive
Arena.ai
@arena
Jul 16
Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5. This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1). In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics,
Zitong Yang
@ZitongYang0
Jul 5
I am attending @icmlconf in Seoul presenting our paper about Automated AI Researcher at Hall A #1304 from 2:30PM to 4:15PM on Thursday, July 9th, 2026. We deploy automated AI researcher in two "LM research environments": pretraining on nanoGPT and post-training with GSM8K GRPO as
Zitong Yang
@ZitongYang0
Jan 22
We believe AI research is a special research area AI itself can deliver significant progress. Ronald Fisher laid out the foundation for scientific methods: generating hypothesis (research ideas) and see if you can falsify the hypothesis (execution). Therefore, execution and
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Zitong Yang
@ZitongYang0
Jun 9
🐐
Rimsha Bhardwaj
@heyrimsha
Jun 9
A Stanford assistant professor and a small lab of graduate students sat down in March 2023 and reproduced the behavior of ChatGPT for under $600. The model they released became the template that every open-source instruction-tuned model on the planet now copies. The evaluation
Zitong Yang
@ZitongYang0
Jun 5
My first introduction to probability theory came from Bertsekas textbook. After I later absorbed the measure theoretic formalism of the subject, I still find myself occasionally revisiting the book for practical computation techniques. Later, when I worked as a quant researcher
Yi Ma
@YiMaTweets
Jun 5
Professor Dimitri Bertsekas will be missed by many and many more to come… RIP.🙏🙏🙏
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